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Race Across America, an ultra marathon bicycle race across the United States that started in 1982. The fastest average speed records are: Solo man: Christoph Strasser, 2014, who averaged 16.42 mph (26.43 km/h) riding 3,020 miles (4,860 km) in 7 days, 15 hours, and 56 minutes. [76]
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Meet Place Ref Flying 200m time trial (progression)10.029 Lea Friedrich Germany 9 August 2024 Olympic Games: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
The fastest known time (FKT) for circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle is awarded for completing a continuous journey around the globe by bicycle and other means, consisting of a minimum 29,000 km (18,000 miles) in total distance cycled.
As of September 2018, she holds the world record for paced bicycle land speed [1] [2] and is considered "the fastest cyclist on earth". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She set the record on September 16, 2018, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, by traveling an average of 183.932 mph (296.009 km/h) on a custom-built carbon KHS bicycle behind a custom-built ...
Whittingham won the President's Award, the People's Choice Award and the Best of Show Award at the 2008 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Portland, Oregon with an ornate fixed-gear bicycle that blended 1890s-style wooden rims and grips with modern hubs and a front disk brake. [citation needed] This bike was then sold to Lance Armstrong.
John Howard (born August 16, 1947 in Springfield, Missouri) is an Olympic cyclist from the United States, who set a land speed record of 152.2 miles per hour (245 km/h) while motor-pacing [1] on a pedal bicycle on July 20, 1985 on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats.
They include the world's fastest turbine bike (234 mph); the UK's fastest (no-fairing) 'naked' bike (225.6 mph); world's fastest motorbike racer on sand at 201.5 mph; Britain's fastest-ever motorcycle crash at over 230 mph; fastest ever wheel powered vehicle in a 1,500 hp Porsche at Pendine Sands at 210.33 mph, [2] and fastest electric ...
WUCA and Guinness Book records for greatest distance cycled in a year, fastest person to cycle 100,000 miles, greatest distance cycled in a month, and first woman in history to exceed 500 miles in 24hrs.