92^{432 km} - ONE hour

Every autumn the same question: What do I like more?

Encapsulated in a human powered rocket on a testtrack riding at 100kmh or enjoing the nature on a fully? Ok, it looks logical, BUT the sensation you have riding a speedbike – one you designed, built and tested by yourself – is great and arouses emotions too! After a racing season there is no better compensation as doing the opposite…

Last year at this time Stefan and me were building Metastretto. After a wet summer and tough luck on record attempts, the warmest november ever saves the bike season.

Finally it was not my health or the weather to prevent a new record. Last weekend we had a technical problem and were not able to solve it at place.

But I am not frustrated. I enjoyed the training, had fun building Metastretto and testing it so many times. The whole project is my passion, not only riding a record makes me happy. The bike is fast and we will show the full potential in the future. I am still sure we can ride 94+ in one hour one day! Back in the office my chief said: you are a tumbler, standing up again every time.

By the way: Our hour-record is unbeaten for more than 3 years now – have a look on tv-session. Many teams tried to attack the mark of 91.556km. The best mark after my record was 87.2km set this year by frenchman Aurelien Bonneteau. This is still more than 4.3km less. Other riders start fast but quit their ride after 20 minutes due to overheating or simply because it is so hard to go on at this pace.

We had a hard time the last two months. Stefan and I did not work at all and concentrated in testing and improving Metastretto. We were at Dekra four times. The first two times we improved Metastretto step by step, going even faster and faster. Martin and my father assisted us too. I am happy with the completely new bike. The shape, the ergonomy, the wheels and the drivetrain, to mention only a few of them, were designed to be better, faster and more efficient than our Recordbike Eiviestretto. Very thanks to Robert, Simon and Walter who helped to finalize my ideas! The bike seems to be faster than Eiviestretto and it is a joy riding it.

During all this period I trained hard and get in very good shape. Some weeks ago I had a power-weight ratio of 5:1. Let’s start on the Tour de France! 🙂

Two times we travelled to Dekra for record attempts. Observers were there, we rent the track but had both times bad weather! We couldn’t start at all in the scheduled time. The track was overall wet after rain or it was dry but very windy. It was stressful to be at place every second weekend and to organise all.

Now I am not able to attend the following Record-Weekend at Dekra due to health reasons. I got an infection and fever the last days. We don’t give up! I try to get well as soon as possible, restart training and prepare for future attempts! We dream about finishing 16 laps in one hour or to push the hour record above 94km!