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Tourezrick said:<snip>
Just a few current records held by pedal powered recumbents. 1 hr. unfaired - 29 miles. 1 hr. faired - 53 + miles (on a 70# faired Varna, at the Nissan test track in Az, warm!!), top speed - 83 mph, again a 70# Varna using a 5 mile run in to a 200 yd. speed trap, done twice into wind, with wind. These records are held by cream of the crop recumbent riders, the 1 hr. faired record was set by the owner of Easy Racers, "Fast" Freddy Markham, a former US Olympic Team rider - at over 50 years of age!
A couple of corrections minor they might be:
LAND - MENS 1 HOUR RECORD - STANDING START (Single Rider)
Date 12 July 2008
Distance (miles) 54.136
Distance (km) 87.123
Type -18
Elevation (m) 109
Name Eivie II
Designer Eivie Team
Rider Damjan Zabovnik
9/18/08PM Battle Mountain, Nevada
Sam Whittingham
Varna Diablo III
Builder/designer Georgiev
Canadian
200m Time 5.434
Speed 82.33mph
Speed 132.50kph
Wind speed 0.12 M/s
Legal winds? Yes
I was at the WHPSC in Battle Mountain, NV to witness the new world record for the flying 200m. Sam Whittingham road 80.47mph in the morning (video on my vimeo account, see sig for url) and 82.33mph in the evening on the same day for the new record.