On September 15th, the Dutch bicycle Velox2 broke the World Record for the fastest non-motorized bicycle. Achieving a blistering final speed of 133.78 Km/h. The way the bicycle was designed reduced the air resistance to 1/10th of what is normally is and was coated with paint used on Formula One race cars. It took over a week for the Dutch crew to achieve the top speed predicted by computer software made to emulate the event due to bad weather and technicalities. To clear things up, this speed only topped the previous record by a sixth of a kilometer per hour.
.http://phys.org/news/2013-09-high-tech-bike-world.html
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