Human-powered vehicle speed record broken by Canada's Aerovelo (86.65mph)

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This Bike Is the Fastest Human-Powered Vehicle In the World. It Goes 85 MPH
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A group of humans put one of its humans in a crazy, covered bike. That human broke a world speed record for a human-powered vehicle. Aaaand now I feel even more like a motionless fat-accumulating sloth.

It all went down Thursday morning in Battle Mountain, Nevada, at the 16th annual World Human Powered Speed Challenge. AeroVelo, a three-year-old Toronto-based design firm whose partners include Google and the University of Toronto, broke the 200-meter men’s record with a speed of 85.71 miles per hour. The previous record was 83.13 miles per hour.

The victorious vehicle is the Eta speedbike, a 55-pound, aerodynamic, bullet-like bike enclosed with a carbon-honeycomb shell and whose frame is made with carbon fiber. Inside, the driver nearly lies down, almost parallel with the ground, a bit like a recumbent bike. To navigate, the pilot consults an on-screen display powered by dual SD cameras, while ...

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Human-powered vehicle speed record broken by Canada's Aerovelo
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Todd Reichert of the Toronto-based team Aerovelo managed to crank Eta – a recumbent bicycle enclosed in an aerodynamic shell —*to a speed of 139.45 kilometres per hour (86.65 miles per hour), winning the World Human-Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nev., this past weekend.

In fact, Reichert first broke the previous world record of 133.8 kilometres per hour (83.13 miles per hour) last Thursday, then broke his own record twice in subsequent days of the week-long competition.

"This year, we were just blasting down that course," Reichert recalled. "It just happened so quickly. Within a minute, you're over 100 kilometres an hour. At that point, you're just flying."

It takes eight kilometres (five miles) to get up to full speed. The racers are clocked during a 200-metre stretch, then slam on the brakes and slow down for the last kilometre of the race.

Reichert said he realized he had broken the first record while looking at the data display inside his vehicle with 2.5 kilometres*left to go in the course.

"I just knew we had it. And at that point, it was just very exciting to see how much we could smash it by," he told CBC News....

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Team Aerovelo from Canada Breaks Human Powered Vehicle Speed Record Three Times


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Team Aerovelo from Canada Breaks Human Powered Vehicle Speed Record Three Times
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Bikes help one get to another place faster and healthier. It's slower compared to automobiles, but a Canadian team has successfully beat a world record of 139.4km/h just by using the bike and the human body.

Team Aerovelo from Canada has broken the world record for three times during the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada. The bike that they used didn't really look like a bike. It looked like a really tiny piece of a bullet train's head.

The team from Canada broke the previous world record of 133.8 km/h on September 17. It was done by Todd Reichert, who used their unique bike named "Eta."

Eta was a recumbent bicycle that is inside an aerodynamic white shell. After Reichert broke the previous world record, he continued to break...

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This super aerodynamic bike just stole the world record for fastest human ...
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What's the fastest you've ever traveled on a bicycle? Perhaps twenty, maybe thirty miles per hour if you were really hustling? Well prepare to feel rather snail-like because earlier this week, a group of cyclists competing at the annual World Human Powered Speed Challenge just set a new land speed world record, successfully propelling a recumbent bike over 85 miles per hour. That’s right, a bicyclist — pedaling entirely by himself — just topped out at a speed that would net you a speeding ticket on nearly any stretch of road in the entire United States. And no, he didn’t need Lance Armstrong’s doctor either.

Team AeroVelo’s record speed of 85.7 miles per hour, officially recorded by Canadian pilot Todd Reichart, comfortably tops the previously set record of 83.1 miles per hour set back in 2013. During the world record run, Reichart made use of the competition’s five-mile buffer stretch of highway which allows riders ample opportunity to reach their top speeds. Once the five-mile buffer ends, World Human Powered Speed Challenge timers clock each participant over a 200-meter portion of road, which was ...


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