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#3550238 - 04/04/12 04:13 AM Police Car Pursuing a Bicycle at 60MPH
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This Czech bicycle rider must have steel ball bearings or a lot of crimes to answer for. Otherwise I wouldn't understand why is he racing down a highway at 60mph (100km/h) with a police car chasing him.

As you can see on the speedometer, the bicycle is travelling at around 100km/h (60mph) behind a van in two different occasions. It's not that crazy to do, thanks to a phenomenon called drafting. Any skilled cyclist is capable of doing this. The drafting world record is now at 268.8km/h (167mph), set by Dutch cyclist Fred Rompelberg in 1995. He beat John Howard's previous record, set to 245km/h in 1985.

In this case, after spotting the cyclist drafting behind a white van, the police turns on the siren and starts the chase. The cyclist doesn't flinch and keeps behind the van until he passes it to slow down on the side of the road. The police then accelerates at 122km/h (75mph) to pass and block the cyclist, who avoids the trap and keeps going. In fact, he repeats the same maneuver: he puts himself behind another van—this time black—and keeps drafting at more than 100km/h (60mph). The police then accelerates to catch him again. As they approach some roadworks, the bicyclist passes the van and then slows down to 50km/h (31mph) at that point, until he gets caught


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#3550242 - 04/04/12 04:37 AM Re: Police Car Pursuing a Bicycle at 60MPH [Re: Desert Eagle]
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I think that's crazy & risky. A small slip at that speed... the consequences are likely to be fatal for the rider.

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#3550271 - 04/04/12 07:51 AM Re: Police Car Pursuing a Bicycle at 60MPH [Re: Desert Eagle]
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My brother got tore up pretty badly one time. He used to long distance race and came upon an ealy morning bridge that hadn't quite thawed yet. He was in the midst of a race and on the exit of a corner was this small bridge. He was just coming out of the corner and hit the slick portion of the bridge. He slid for a good distance and got cut up. Road rash is an ugly thing.

On another occasion he was pulled over. The officer #%&*$# him out until my brother told him this was a legal race course. Not sure why the officer didn't know about it or see other cyclists (He HAD an entrace number on the back of his jersey!!!! SHEEEEESH!). LOL

60 MPH is fast, but not uncommon with drafting techniques. It's the shaving of the legs that wrings the last MPH out of your effort. smile

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#3550286 - 04/04/12 08:15 AM Re: Police Car Pursuing a Bicycle at 60MPH [Re: Desert Eagle]
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To do 60 mph on the flat needs a very big gear, regardless of aerodynamics. Even with 64:11 you'd need to be turning the cranks at 140 rpm to hit that speed.

However, the guy in the video appears to be riding an ordinary looking mountain bike with 26" wheels. Something doesn't add up.

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