Timeline for Why aren't Tour de France riders going any faster?
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 0:17 | comment | added | Nuі | Ah, the current UCI hour record that you linked to is still under 60km. It's the human powered record that is 90km, not the UCI faux-class racing one. | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 19:29 | comment | added | Angelo | The tour de france is as much about strategy, speed and timing as it is about raw endurance. Moreover, the race is composed of stages, winning any one of them is the achievement of a lifetime. The GC's deservedly get accolades, but that's still only part of race. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 18:43 | comment | added | heltonbiker | @Kibbee I think each age has its motivations. For example, there haven't been too much manned landings on Moon, lately. I think professional athletes go for what is most professionally attractive in each moment of history. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 16:49 | comment | added | Kibbee | Well, it has 2 wheels, and is fully human powered. Graeme Obree got a lot of criticism back in the day and they actually changed the rules because they didn't like the fact that we won it on an unconventional bike (scotlandforvisitors.com/nmspic.php). If you look at the UCI best human effort. It still shows quite an increase, up to 56 km in 1996. No record has been broken by then. Which is quite surprising, but I guess most athletes would rather focus on beating the non-conventional bike record than trying to beat the old record using conventional bikes. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 16:19 | comment | added | tdc | Err I think you want to look at this video of the 2009 record ... not really a bike is it? | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 16:10 | history | answered | Kibbee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |