Dutch cyclist claims new world speed record in Nevada

[Stonechat]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24133410

Dutch cyclist Sebastiaan Bowier claims to have broken the record for the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Nevada.

Riding a recumbent bike designed by the Delft University of Technology and the VU University Amsterdam, he reached a speed of 133.78 kilometres per hour (83.13 miles per hour) on a desert road in Nevada, United States.

 

[Koga]

Although I am Dutch, I am not that fast ...

 

[neil earley]

OMG can just get up tp 15mph and thought I was fast on the straight!! the Flying Dutchman literally.

 

[Scoosh]

 

[snorri]

Aye, it's all down to the training he was able to do on these segregated cycle routes in The Netherlands .