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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Been following them a while – they’ve earned it!
Still, you’d think they might whack some stabilisers on it while they learn the balance! 😉
Some big outriggers would have helped, yes…
A brief perusal of the footage indicates that they would have had fewer problems if they had fitted wider bars (760mm minimum, ideally carbon), gone for a longer effective tt/shorter stem combo and opted for 650b+ tyres. Simple really
Joking aside it does actually look like wider bars would have helped with the steering & stability even if it might have affected the aerodynamics slightly.
Didn’t realise there was a runway in Shoreditch