Where it all began... In the early 90's anyone who knew anything about cycling would tell you that it would be utterly impossible for an athlete to travel more than 56km in an hour. Thanks to the open mindedness and willingness to explore of one gifted sports scientist and two visonary eccentrics, in 1996 Chris Boardman broke the World One Hour Record, far surpassing this 'unachievable' mark.

The first eccentric was Mike Burrows with his fabled Lotus bike design, he had the vision to ask 'why does a frame need to be a collection of tubes, why not like a wing'? The second was Graeme Obree, the Scot, who also explored outside of cycling, he looked not to aeronautics but instead to swimming where athletes are not allowed to remain under the water for more than 15m as submerged, with their arms outstrectched they went faster! So Graeme adopted this position on a bike and beat the world. Chris took this knowlege and combined it with Peter Keen's (his coach) advanced understanding of human physiology which was used not only to determin training for the record attempt but also to control the temperature within the venue to minimise air density! Due to the inquisitivness, open mindedness and willingness to explore of these three individuals, Chris went beyond 56km, setting a mark of 56.375km.