I feel like it was all her, I feel like the him and the speed bubble reduce resistance; but it wasn’t self power, regardless it’s impressive that you can go above 100 mph without too much resistance
@@summerblade3790*she. And she’s pulled until she’s at speed, then just has to pedal to keep up for a while. I don’t think it would be possible for a human to accelerate to that speed on their own due to the gearing needed
@@what3verfloatsurgoat391 why can’t you accelerate forever? Recall your physics class any top speed is viable provided you keep accelerating for a while - so even if she Gaines 1kmph a second all she needs to do is maintain the pedalling for 5 mins. Also she isn’t being pulled - the car was only there to prevent air resistance, theres no sufficient tension on that string to pull her
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It's a pointless record that has no practical application. It would be like someone leashing themselves to a 747 jet and get pulled down the run way while on roller blades and then claiming they set a new speed record. It's stupid and a waste of time.
As several people have said it was done within the rules of the previous record. Go ahead and do it if you think it's as easy and safe as riding an elevator. You need to grow up a bit because you sound like an idiot.
well, i think you argued yourself into a nonsensical position even more. i believe the point is that no matter who set the 'record' (male, female, etc) the whole class and previous record setters are, to some degree, a little narcissistic and looking for a niche to create or find a niche just so that they can create a 'record'. it's like a solution to an imaginary problem.
it's not like a brick wall. People ride motorcycles past 180mph all the time. I've personally hit 187mph. of course you dont stick your whole body out, you stay tucked.
@@polloloco1163 she was for the record attempt; the way these records work is you basically get towed up to speed then released, and the record is about sustaining the highest average speed under your own power over one mile.
The back of the draft actually pushes you forward. And in her words "Im lite pedaling so I dont slam into the rear of the vehicle" Also this is basically a motorcycle without a motor.
@@mchenryjeremy yeah but it really irritates me when i struggle to find an unassisted speed record on google and it keeps throwing down this one instead to me
how did the pedaling not serve a purpose? they release the tow at 0:57 min. she pedalled herself at least 3 miles at 180 mph. the car/dragster is only there to provide a perfect slipstream after that, which is the whole trick to this feat.
She has two sets of 62:12 gear ratios. And if the rear sprocket was 4ft in diameter she'd go about an inch per pedal stroke. Gears... how do those work?
Really? No, not really. Just because you can't see the connection, doesn't mean it isn't there. By all accounts that's a powered bicycle. It's powered by the vacuum that the car generates. The wattage that the biker generates is trivial compared to the wattage provided by the in rushing atmosphere. This is the worlds least efficient gasoline powered bicycle competition.
The pace car just stops air resistance. It doesn't provide any forward pull on the rider, just prevents any backward push. There's plenty of gap on all sides for air to fill in, it definitely isn't pulling on the rider in any meaningful way.
Right, like I'm not looking at the same video watching the salt in the air in front of her plume while they're at max speed. Let's see her do it with a 30 foot long tether.
@@hvdub754 yeah but she didn't pedal to 180mph did she? She got towed, and she got released. So I can get towed by the same type of car, reach 200mph, and get released? No.
Good *science demonstration !* It shows that the air resistance is the huge factor for speed vs energy. The wheels roll very well on the flat surface, it's the air that requires much more energy to move fast.
@@1Slamalama1 at 0:57 SHE gets disconnected. The rope literally disengages and you can she here lose a bit and then catch back up to the car. Meaning to a very LARGE degree she is peddling that bike that speed. If the wheels were juss rolling here legs wouldd be shattered bu the spinning pedals, unless you think she just disconnected the chain, which is impossible based on the above observation i made. Edit: my hyperlink was 3 seconds to far forward, and you couldntt see the rope snap
@@contractkiller7634 actually she isn't doing a lot of the pedalling. The mid vacuum of the vehicle is letting her gain such speed. If she didn't have the car, she probably couldn't even get near 100 kph
So many people don’t understand how impressive this is. This is one of the most dangerous world records, she trained for years and put her life at stake to attempt this.
@@mylifeisJDM mylifeisJDM I think the issue here is the misleading tittle. If she were to achieve that speed with her own might then it would have clearly been impressive, but she was towed. Explaining how the cars energy sustains her speed (vacuum)may be over your head . It's understandable
Paced bicycle racing has existed since 1897. Everyone knows the riders can't attain those speeds without the car's slipstream, that's the entire point - to ride a bicycle as fast as possible. People bitching about her 'being towed' are missing the point.
When the line was released she peddled and almost hit the truck. Points are she was drafting and that is part of the process. Then the vehicle pulled away to allow the wind resistance to slow her down. I just met her and an incredible performance. All those critical go do it and be sure to submit the video.
Those saying it's simple, or that she didn't actually pedal the bike that fast do not understand the physics of it at all. Simply amazing feat! been following this for a while, and congrats on smashing the world record!!!!
Pedaling from 0-184 would've been amazing. There have been past records similar to this where a guy actually pedaled from 0-100mph on a road bike with a car behind him. Getting towed to 100mph is a lot of momentum, if the tow cut off from around 10mph and pedaled from there it would've been comparable to the old records of guys pedaling from 0-100mph.
For those who wonder, the bike has "1 gear" specially made for high speed. 1- you could not pedal this bike from a standing start because it's like taking off with you car on a 5th gear. That is why a starting tow is a must have. 2 -pro men or women have tried it a none was close, the record was 167 miles per hour set by a "MAN" a Dutch rider Fred Rumple Burg ; he did it the same way. so say what you want but she is the FASTEST IN THE WORLD. A little respect to her achievement are in order.
Basil Rathbonez You missed my point. This is one of those sport where man and woman compete at the same level on equal footing, Mind you she is a 15 times US champ in cycling. your idea that we should minimize her accomplishments is down right sexist. As long as fewer chances are given to people base on gender bias, THE FEW EXTRAORDINARY once will never be found. Just saying...just saying...
Moctar Sawadogo truth is there was nothing extraordinary about this. Some group of engineers designed the bike and the gear ratio, she was towed to speed and she managed to pedal while staying inside the box to avoid air resistance forces. My 90yo aunt could’ve done it too. Any avarage human being could do this.
She is fastest until a man bests her. It is quite clear men are faster cyclists across all distances and events, and this would be no difference. Why would they even use a woman? Not for her superior physical ability.
@@Atet8oo7 no they can't, you need skill to pedal at those speeds and stay in the vacuum created by the car. Your 90 year old aunt let alone you could never do that without the training that she had.
Why is everyone thinking she got towed? She was only towed until she reached a certain speed, then the tow line detached. In fact, well before she hit 184 mph, she was pedaling on her own!
Because we understand enough physics to know that she is being towed. The car is moving the air along at 184 MPH; that means in the reference frame of the air she is moving at 0 MPH; there is no air resistance. That means there is only rolling resistance (which is 10 times bigger than at 18 MPH; and 10 times nothing is still almost nothing; only limit is the wheels must take it without the slightest bit of wobble) and no air resistance (which is 10^3 = 1000 times larger than at 18 MPH). That's just a first approximation; there is also a low pressure zone behind the vehicle with an inrush of air pushing her forward. She had to pedal very lightly with almost no effort to not hit the towing vehicle. The gearing is just there because she can't pedal at the required frequency without it. This "record" is a physics demonstration. It doesn't not require effort from the cyclist, only from the engineering team. It is also incredibly dangerous; if a wheel wobbles too much you will likely die. If you ride outside of the draft from the towing vehicle you would likely get knocked off and die. This is thus simultaneously unimpressive and very dangerous.
I think that the difficultly level of this record is probably higher on the mental side than the strength side. It would be interesting to find out the amount of wattage and cadence required
This was actually done over a hundred years ago using a train as the support vehicle with a board track set up between the rails the top speed in that situation was a little over 120 MPH . The principle then and now are the same . The wind screen on the powered vehicle creates a vacuum that the ambient air rushes in to in order to equalize air pressure which at sea level is 14.7 PSI , if the windshield knocked it down to say 10 PSI you would have 4.7 PSI pushing on the back of this bike it doesn't seem like much but remember this is for every square inch assuming the rider is around 600 square inches and the bike maybe about 30 inches this is 2961.00 LBS of force pushing the Bike . And lets say the windscreen is not that efficient and only does half of that it is still 1480 LBS pushing on the bike , and it had to be towed up to speed . In reality using common calculations a 160 Mph Vehicle weighing say 150 LBS with 630 SQ inch frontal area would require around 48 HP to attain 180 MPH the average human can make .4.0 HP and this is considering conditioned athletes so no you can not ride a bike at 180 MPH.
well she didnt even do anything anyways, the vortex created by the car pushed her forward, look at her hair its blowing forward... she never did anything besides sit on the bike.
She didn't pedal from 157 to 184 "on her own", there was a vehicle in front of her to counter the air resistance. That's how stayer bikes are able to achieve those speeds. Early stayer bikes in the 1920s were limited to speeds in the 120mph range because the vehicles they followed could only do 120 130. Obviously the top achievable speed depends on the vehicle breaking the air. Someone will break this record just because it was set and its there to be broken.
The lack of understanding in the comments section, by people who think they are smarter than they are, is mind boggling. I want to see one of the people who discounted the effort involved try this. If they can get to a fourth of her speed, I will buy them a steak dinner - half her speed and I will throw in a $100 gift certificate at a store of their choice (most likely Walmart).
That's your average youtube comment section. Most of them fortunately are *kids* - or at least I hope they are. Only kids could be this stupid and narrowminded. Sadly they flood the net with their stupid comments possibly holding back development for many their own age. Then again there are no shortage of adult cretins which is even more depressing. I recall the Rinspeed Scuba car and tons of stupid comments saying:"Uh, why didn't they put a roof on that thing so the driver won't get wet??" Try explaining buoyancy to them and how a car with huge trim tanks would be impractical and never could be homologated for road use anyway. Nope, the comment section was full of "Uhh, those idiots forgot to put a roof on that car so the diver won't get wet." You're just gasping in disbelief how some morons reason - and I hope they were all 10-14 year olds.
Ben _ She has money to this because of sponsorships from hard work. She didn't just wake up one day and think "wow I have a lot of money I should try to break the record for pedaling the fastest on a bike". She has years of experience I'm sure.
She would also beat 99% of the guys trolling in the comments on a fair track or road race as well. She is a beast on the bike, the commenters have keyboards and half a wit.
Uhh, yea no. The strength required to pedal at that speed is insane, the vacuum created by that block in front of her is basically doing all the work, she just has to keep up with it. This was just dumb.
*she didn't pedal 184 mph. She was dragged and got to 184, ask her if she can pedal that without the drag. That's the real test this absolutely proves nothing
Im not sure but I probably hit 20 to 30 mphs on my Schwinn 21 speed bike. Going downhill. I probably hit maybe 40 mph. Flat 20 + easily. I'm only 22 years old btw. I don't know since I don't have speedometer on it.
91 kph long downhill (25km) from a mountain pass without too much bends on a road bike. Felt great, though a bit sketchy if there was a sudden car in front.
She got towed to 100 mph and pedaled up to 184. The hearing needed to pedal that fast is insane and there no way anyone would risk a misshift going the fast on a bike.
@@michaelfilippi1520 yeah I meant that having any sort of derailleur on the bike would be insane.which Is the ok only way you could start from a stand still.
Took my grandchildren out to the Flats that day. Unfortunately, she had already made her run before we got there. However, we did get to see some amazing cars.
A pretty phoney record if we're being honest. A more impressive record (both in terms of the technological innovation and the human effort involved) is the unpaced speed record, currently held by Todd Reichert at 144.17 km/h. Ultimately the only cycling record that _really_ matters is the hour record, performed either using standardised equipment in a velodrome (now known as the UCI unified hour record) and held by Bradley Wiggins at 54.526km or using a streamlined enclosed recumbent bicycle to reduce air resistance and held by Francesco Russo at 92.432km.
For those who haven't read up on this: The bike had two chains that effectively lengthened the distance of travel for each pedal stroke (this isn't your basic TDF bike). The previous record was set in the same way. Staying upright on a bicycle and inside the slipstream at that speed is impressive in itself, and doing it on the rough surface of the Bonneville Salt Flats is a challenge of its own. The video is 2 minutes long, but maybe you should have noticed that this is merely a sample of footage that is coming from an upcoming documentary. I'm certain someone will attempt to beat the record...but since the previous record was set in 1995 with a few different challengers, I'd imagine it's not exactly the easiest feat in the world to accomplish...or it would have been done within the last 23 years?
The record for “Paced cycling.” She was towed to just over 157, and then, while in the slip stream of the car, including some forward moving air, she had to pedal the bike up to 183.9+ and STAY ALIVE until she got stopped. I have to wonder just how many of the skeptics and critics commenting on here have even gone over 100 MPH in a car, let alone a bike? Bunch of absolute geniuses. NOT!
в чем прикол этого рекорда блять? ладно если бы она сама с места разогналась хотя бы до 150-200 км/ч а то так можно было ее вообще не отпускать и разогнать до хоть 500 км/ч и запустить на луну к херам
Ну хрен с ним, там спец велик на большую скорость. С место наверное педали не провернешь. Но хотя бы выехать изза машины надо было. Суть скорости именно в преодолении воздуха. Вот скажем разогнали бы до 250. А она выехала и разогналась бы до 260 хотя бы. Это значит что ее сил хватает. А тут блин...
They didn’t deal wind wind resistance at those speeds. They would’ve flown like a feather 🌬💨 It would be more relevant if I added pegs to my motorcycle & then once I get to 184, I pedal. Haha
• true story • it's a feat not to get blown off of a motorcycle over 150 • can only imagine if a semi broke the wind for me wherever i went and it was always faster than me •
She is towed up till 0:58 then releases the rope at that point she is going 167mph the guy said it and then because of the sheild at the back of the car that causes there to be nearly no are resistance, at this point she is pedalling all on her own on a flat surface with extra large bearings in the wheels and no air resistance allowing her to accelerate even further to 184mph without being towed so technically she did pedal a bike up to 184mph. There you go to all the ppl who said that this is fake, youre just dumb🤷♂️
@@ProlFly Разговор не об этом, вот если она скорость такую развила бы с нуля, да еще своими силами, то да, я понимаю..А так ее разогнала машина, ну она типа на такой скорости удержалась, "Удержать велосипед на скорости..."Вот так и надо писать..
@@ProlFly 80 бил на шоссере с достаточно крутого асфальтированного спуска, обсирательного ничего нет, потому что вел и асфальт был хороший. А вот на старом кантрийнике 64 с укатанного песчаного спуска и ещё и небольшую воблу на 60 поймать - вот тут и правда коричневые штаны надевать надо было...
The comments here are like that line in Steve Martin's Grandmother's Song - "criticize things you don't know about". There are numerous "human powered vehicles" speed categories, and this is one of them. My god people, she was going 184 mph on a freakin' bicycle. 99% of you couldn't even do that in a car without killing yourself.
Bobby Hempel Going down which mountain? Because that's not under your own power. Using which specialized aerodynamic equipment on which perfectly flat road? Because on a regular bicycle the power requirement at 70 mph is not humanly possible. I call BS.
The gearing was so large that she couldn’t start it herself, she needed to be towed. Anyone saying this is just cheating doesn’t know anything about what happened and why.
rdooski if she had enough gears to do that, which would be about 70 gears, it would take about 16 hours of non stop max effort pedalling and a flat area without a single rock 2000 miles long, nowhere that flat and that big exists
How is this really a thing? A person, on a tethered bike, gets pulled to a speed and then is released to pedal some more on their own. The excessive speed is achieved by being pulled and by being in the 'wake' of the much faster vehicle. I think it would be a better description 'world record for high-speed slowing'.
Wow... It would actually make more sense to u if u actually knew about cycling.... That bike aint an ordinary bike u would die but not be able to pedal it from a standstill.... It requires to be towed to a certain speed for the rider to even start pedalling.... The woman is towed to a speed and then the cord is cut and she increases her own speed after tht with her own strength.... It is physically impossible for a human to actually ride at tht speed.... Records hv always been set this way... Google it and u might start to appreciate the strength it must hv required
You could if she had the power output, the endurance, and the coordination to turn the cranks at a high cadence. There’s no climbing, so strength to weight ratio is not as important as max power output and the endurance to maintain it. This record is probably more suited to kilometer and pursuit specialists from track cycling.
actually she probably would have been able to go faster being that she would have made a bigger human sail for the vortex that was pushing her forward....
