85mph on leg power alone...new record at Battle Mountain

http://www.ihpva.org/home/

Congrats Team AeroVelo!!!

Any talk of fast ebikes that can't even beat this leg-powered rocket is downright silly.

Thanks for putting this up john,i cant seem to find a video yet...

Could go faster then 85mph, going downhill!

"Aerovelo bike shatters human-powered speed record by hitting 89.59 mph"
http://inhabitat.com/aerovelo-shatters-human-powered-vehicle-speed-record-again-at-89-59-mph/

... and last years performance (may wish to slow down view on Video...)

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Yeah. This shows just how far we are from efficient vehicles. This is why I am so disgusted with electric car development. Like electric powered living rooms on wheels are going to save us now. They'd have been great when I was twenty. They are a generation too late.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/27/fracking-digging-drilling-paris-agreement-fossil-fuels?CMP=share_btn_tw

^^ Yup. Watt he said. The race is on to produce a large, heavy, expensive vehicle (operator plus three empty seats and loads of empty cargo space) that goes much faster than most urban speed limits, and goes 200+ miles on one charge. That damages, injures and kills, but in a more "eco-friendly" way! But how many drink holders???

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Pop a top professional sprinter in there and I bet they'd get 160km/h (100m/h) out of them. It must be a goal they are working towards, being so close. Pretty amazing speeds. Imagine a road system where people are cruising around at 50-100kph in little e-velo's sipping 100w or something crazy small like that. Of course you'd have to bust out the amps soon as a hill comes your way but whatever, at that speed you'd probly launch right off it! Good on em.

kdog,

"Imagine a road system where people are cruising around at 50-100kph in little e-velo's sipping 100w or something crazy small like that."

Not quite that efficient, but pretty damn good. You can pull CdA, and Cr for the White Hawk streamliner on

http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm

I think this is where Justin got values for his motor simulator.

http://www.ebikes.ca/tools/simulator.html

Playing around with some numbers, I think a more realistic streamliner, for commuters, with electric drive, practical suspension/tires/brakes will be four times the weight, and have quite a bit more drag. Even then, 500-1000 watts, and 2.5-3 kWh will get you 35-55 mph for 100-150 miles, an order of magnitude better than any electric car.

I'm a little speechless. I've never been remotely that fast on a bike....

Yeah. Their rider is not an average rider.

http://www.aerovelo.com/about-us-1/#team

Just because he is not a pro rider, does not mean he isn't a world class athlete. There are people walking around, who have normal jobs, and don't focus full time on sports as the meaning of life, who are nonetheless amazing athletes. The other thing is training for this unique event, in one of these machines. You can't just jump in one and win. In 2001, an Olympic gold medal sprinter, and a British race car company teamed up to show the amateurs how it is done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Queally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynard_Motorsport

http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2001/Blue_Yonder_Team.htm

They had a humbling experience, being beaten by 15 year old Tanya Markham, their first day out.

Her dad is Fast Freddie Markham, and she'd had more experience in these machines than Queally.

http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2001/tanya3.jpg