In the same race he also raised the 12 hour record to 664,97 km, which is an average of 55,41 km/h.

Webb took no notice and went on to beat the old hour record by approximately 400 metres.

In 1949, he set the hour record at 96.48 km.

The hour record is usually attempted by road cyclists towards the end of their career.

In driving rain, they did the first 12 hours at 97.7 mph but missed the 12 hour record.

He set 12 world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 kilometres on 11 May 1893.

Merckx set the hour record in 25 October 1972.

She set the national hour record, 24.8 miles at the Encino velodrome in California and held it from 1969 to 1990.

The most famous of these is the hour record, which involves simply riding as far as possible in one hour.

The team was then built around young Jacques Anquetil, who had broken the hour record earlier that year.