RChung

I've been fortunate to have worked with a handful of riders attempting the hour record. The first time I did that, we collected the weather reports for the same period of the year from previous years so we could see how much the air density varied across time of day, then I made a guess about what the density would be on the date the attempt would be made. The rider had some flexibility in when they could make the attempt so as the date and time of the attempt got closer we refined the guess. It turns out that for various scheduling reasons a different rider had to make an attempt at a less auspicious date and time of day, and fell short. The rider I was working with could wait until a better time, and broke the hour record.