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AeroVelo Breaks Human-powered Land Speed Record
yyzmcleod sends news that AeroVelo, a Canadian team of engineers and students, has built a bike that successfully broke the human-powered land speed record. (This is the same group that built a human-powered helicopter in 2013.) The team's Eta recumbent speed bike managed a speed of 85.7mph (137.9km/h). The previous record was 83.1 mph.
yyzmcleod sends news that AeroVelo, a Canadian team of engineers and students, has built a bike that successfully broke the human-powered land speed record. (This is the same group that built a human-powered helicopter in 2013.) The team's Eta recumbent speed bike managed a speed of 137.9km/h (85.7mph). The previous record was 133.7km/h (83.1 mph).
Just pointing out if you're allowed to use slipstreaming (you pedal behind a car which is blocking the air for you) the world record is actually 167 mph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Using the camera provides a substantial improvement in riding position, which translates into an improvement in aerodynamics. Easy Racers did the same thing while they were still around, and chasing land speed records.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The camera is in the little wing above the bike. Seeing the bike in the picture, and having the camera higher really helps the pilot control it. The view is MUCH better than any windshield we did for our past bikes, and the aerodynamics are better too, getting large regions of laminar flow