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Written by Ollie Kew
To travel very quickly on Earth, you need to push a lot of air out of your way. This takes a lot of power. It"s why the Bugatti Chiron needs 16 cylinders and four turbos, and why jet airliners have engines the size of buses. If you want to go quickly on a bicycle, you"d ideally need a big object to follow that"s pushing all the air out of the way for you, so you can concentrate on the pedaling. Say, a two-tonne Porsche Cayenne towing a giant windbreak? Yep, that"s the tactic successfully used by 44-year old British cyclist Neil Campbell, who"s ridden his custom Moss Cycles bike to 149mph on RAF Elvington"s two-mile runway, behind a 542bhp Cayenne Turbo. The feat beat his own record of 135mph, set back in June of this year.
Date written: 18 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13372
To travel very quickly on Earth, you need to push a lot of air out of your way. This takes a lot of power. It"s why the Bugatti Chiron needs 16 cylinders and four turbos, and why jet airliners have engines the size of buses. If you want to go quickly on a bicycle, you"d ideally need a big object to follow that"s pushing all the air out of the way for you, so you can concentrate on the pedaling. Say, a two-tonne Porsche Cayenne towing a giant windbreak? Yep, that"s the tactic successfully used by 44-year old British cyclist Neil Campbell, who"s ridden his custom Moss Cycles bike to 149mph on RAF Elvington"s two-mile runway, behind a 542bhp Cayenne Turbo. The feat beat his own record of 135mph, set back in June of this year.
Date written: 18 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13372
