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Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« on: 17 November, 2016, 02:35:04 pm »

Karla

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #1 on: 17 November, 2016, 04:23:19 pm »
I want his wheels.  I want his wheels so bad.


MalRees

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #2 on: 17 November, 2016, 08:08:02 pm »
I reckon he has a chance. He rode well within himself last time, and hopefully there will be more than the paltry 1000 odd people at Manchester to cheer him on. I lost my voice after 40 minutes!

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #3 on: 01 December, 2016, 09:40:23 pm »
Is this why Brad can't make up his mind whether he wants to retire or not? Will a Dowsett success provoke a Wiggins markII? Keep reading those TUE's folks.


Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #4 on: 09 December, 2016, 09:01:13 am »
Is this why Brad can't make up his mind whether he wants to retire or not?

I reckon that's probably got more to do with the product endorsement opportunities disappearing, I suppose he could always advertise for GSK  :demon:


Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #6 on: 11 November, 2020, 08:31:41 am »
It may be to do with raising his profile, he was out of contract ( although there are rumours that he may just have got a deal)
It’s a good idea to go before Ganna, who has aspirations for the hour. He’s currently isolating following a positive Covid test. He could well put the hour record away on a very high shelf for a long time.

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #7 on: 11 November, 2020, 11:30:58 am »
'Rumours'?  ITYM a definite announcement of a two year deal on the front page of Cyclingnews!

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #8 on: 18 November, 2020, 07:19:13 pm »
Dowsett’s Hour postponed after what Auntie helpfully describes as a ‘positive test’, thankfully for COVID

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #9 on: 17 October, 2021, 10:25:45 pm »

Notfromrugby

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #10 on: 20 October, 2021, 06:43:16 am »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/58884574

Going again in November

Disappointingly, in Aguas Calientes. And there's me hoping that this altitude nonsense was a thing of the past... Given the rarity of high altitude velodromes, I think the UCI should look into banning records achieved at altitude

Karla

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #11 on: 20 October, 2021, 09:03:34 am »
So any Mexican cyclists are banned from competing in their own country?  Or any of the dozens of inland US states that are >1000 metres?  Yeah, that's gonna fly.  Eddy did it in Mexico anyway!

Dowsett said he wanted to do it in Manchester but it's being re-roofed at the moment.  London was hard to book as they found out last time, so they started looking at foreign options - and then decided that if they couldn't do it in the UK they might as well go to Mexico.  Good luck to him!  He'll need it, it's going to be a struggle at this point in his career but I really hope he does it.

Notfromrugby

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #12 on: 20 October, 2021, 08:50:05 pm »
genuine question: has there ever been a serious attempt at the hour by a Mexican cyclist?

Now that it comes to think of it, I can't name a single Mexican cyclist... :o

LittleWheelsandBig

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #13 on: 20 October, 2021, 08:52:27 pm »
There have been a few high class Mexican cyclists. Raul Alcala was a pretty big name late last century.
Wheel meet again, don't know where, don't know when...

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #14 on: 20 October, 2021, 09:16:39 pm »
His position doesn't seem very aero.

Karla

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #15 on: 20 October, 2021, 09:50:39 pm »
Fortunately, aerodynamics isn't about how someone looks, it's about how air moves past them.

Here's what he had to say on Cycling News.

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"If I do a wind tunnel session, it's not about the CDA I take from that wind tunnel session, it's about making the number at the end of the session lower than the number at the start."

However, for the aero nerds among us, he did let us into his usual figures:

"I've done a lot of different tunnels and tracks and methods to getting CDA and I've got everything from 0.16 to 0.23. As accurate as we can get it, I'm around the 0.18 mark, but that's taken with a pinch of salt."

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #16 on: 30 October, 2021, 03:20:25 pm »

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #17 on: 03 November, 2021, 10:17:03 pm »
He's pushing such a massive gear, I keep thinking he's given up and is slowing to a stop!
Those wonderful norks are never far from my thoughts, oh yeah!

Karla

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #18 on: 03 November, 2021, 10:22:52 pm »
Three seconds down on record pace 20 minutes in.  I hope this is part of the plan  ???

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #19 on: 03 November, 2021, 10:44:44 pm »
Drifting away from him now at 40 minutes
The sound of one pannier flapping

IanDG

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #20 on: 03 November, 2021, 10:48:00 pm »
 :(

Karla

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #21 on: 03 November, 2021, 11:08:12 pm »
Oh well

Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #22 on: 04 November, 2021, 09:58:30 am »
Peter Green hits apart, many congratulations to Alex Dowsett for a terrific effort.

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #23 on: 04 November, 2021, 03:30:10 pm »
What an amazing effort, and an inspiring journey to get there. Alex didn't get the record, but I think his stands as the second fastest official attempt at the World Hour Record - yes, he's short of Dan Bigham's distance but I don't think that counts as an official attempt. It's 1.6km further than when he got the record in 2015, and about 30m further than Bradley got a little later that year.

Really, really well done, Alex.

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Re: Dowsett to attempt to regain hour record.
« Reply #24 on: 19 August, 2022, 01:39:54 pm »
Dan Bigham's attempt live (for about another 45 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUiHhm2QKLE
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et avec John, excellent lecteur de road-book, on s'en est sortis sans erreur