New British Bicycle Land Speed Record

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A British team from the University of Liverpool have set a new British bicycle land speed record, clocking up 75mph in a faired bike named ARION1. You can read more about that in their own blog post here, but for your delectation, here’s an excellent video of the various failures it took them to get there:

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David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly. Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.

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