Track Cycling 2022 Discussion Thread

[Grassmarket 2,749]

Missed this story a couple of days ago.

 

 will host the  National Track Championship in November - important for getting national ranking points and ultimately Olympic Quals.

 

Ukrainian Track Cycling Championships to be held at Geraint Thomas Velodrome of Wales - BBC Sport

[heywoodu 13,540]

Filippo Ganna will attack Dan Bigham's world hour record (55.5 km or so) Saturday evening in Switzerland. He did a test yesterday, and got to a little over 56 km/h for 35 minutes, so that's promising. He's also got his eyes set on Chris Boardman's 56.38 km with a nowadays not legal bike design.

[Grassmarket 2,749]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Filippo Ganna will attack Dan Bigham's world hour record (55.5 km or so) Saturday evening in Switzerland. He did a test yesterday, and got to a little over 56 km/h for 35 minutes, so that's promising. He's also got his eyes set on Chris Boardman's 56.38 km with a nowadays not legal bike design.

It’s on ES streaming.

Edited October 6, 2022 by Grassmarket

[heywoodu 13,540]

Bigham's WR isn't even a subject anymore, at the moment Ganna is well on his way to break Boardman's Superman-record. 25 minutes to go.

 

 

[heywoodu 13,540]

He's going to end up close to 57km, dear lord.

[heywoodu 13,540]

Half a minute up on Boardman, damn. This is the end of the period of hour record attempts for the next 10 years at least. It's been 8 fun years.

[heywoodu 13,540]

56 kilometers, 792 meters  

 

Goodbye Chris Boardman, goodbye Superman position, goodbye era of having a 'best human effort' and an 'official world record', it's now all and the same  

 

One of the most epic moments in the past 20 years of cycling.

Edited October 8, 2022 by heywoodu

[phelps 6,790]

Filippooooooooo!!!!!