Roller speed record attemp

Brent Atkins sets an unofficial Canadian roller speed record of 148 km/h in Ottawa on March 16, 2013. He's riding a 120x15 fixed gear. The world record is 202 km/h.

[danparish]

This bike is great. If the back tire gets a flat, you can just ride home on the gear itself.

[alan]

You can skip leg day if you can climb with this bike

[singkitboi]

imagine maintaining this speed in a normal day.

**casually just pedals from one state to the other**

[simonr]

Interestingly enough with this gearing your cadence is exactly the same as your speed in km/h. So this man was spinning at 148 rpm, not bad at all.

[fueledbymusic]

Put that big gear on the back and then he can climb perfectly perpendicular hills!

[brentatkinschryssilvestre]

I have to do this again, I think I can go a lot faster now that I've been training for just sprinting..

[himachal]

How much higher gear do you want?
: Yes

[ejpaule]

imagine, all of a sudden the rollers broke, then the guy went like 100kph in a blink of an eye 😳

edited: 1 year ago I make this joke, thinking that everyone will have the same humor as i have, idk why the f they're educating me for this kind of joke

[straybubbles]

Anyone else hoping that the guy would fall off those rollers and ends up two states over

[Kharam]

He's an astronaut, teacher, soccer player, doctor, plumber....
Now he's a world record cyclist! Congrats johnny sins!!!🤣🤣🤣

[xshn]

0:40 when she says harder baby! harder!

[renaissanceman]

I got to race Mammoth Mountain at the world championship in 1989. On the downhill, John Tomac had a 61 tooth chainring and a solid disc wheel on the rear of his mountain bike. It looked like it was going to hit the ground it was so big . I hit 51 mph on a rigid stump comp, 48-12. @ 10, 000 ft beside my buddy Lance. Good times

[thirdfakeofmoon]

Okay youtube i watched the video! Leave me alone now!

0:41 When I show up at a group ride thats supposed to be flat, but there's double digit gradients right off the bat

[And-rcyy]

I remember as a kid, I was training on rollers in the living room. My mum came in and with a sly grin I asked her to change gear for me (old school braze on downtube shifters). My mum went to change gear and caught a massive static charge. I bet at 148km/h you'd build up one heck of a charge.

[retiber]

Now he has to do that speed record in both directions!

[andor_yoko]

There was an attemp at making a good title

[DCfreerunner]

Exactly who I imagined competing in such an event

[hiroaoki]

What it feels like when you bike on a hill on high gear:

[blackburn]

pretty cool how quickly he went from 30 to 50. It would be hilarious to try this bike on the ground. this guy is in top shape for sure but I kinda wonder what those track sprinter olympians and world champs with ginormous quads would do on a bike like this