On 7 June 2015 Wiggins broke the UCI hour record at the London Olympic velodrome, riding 54.526 kilometers, surpassing Alex Dowsett's mark of 52.937 kilometers set five weeks earlier. But the Movistar Team wants to try to breake again the performance in the future.
"Wiggins ride was really impressive", Dowsett told Cyclingnews. "We expected, everyone expected, massive things from him and he delivered. It was really good to watch and if anyone was going to take my record it was always going to be Bradley. I think it's exactly what we expected."
Another attempt from the Movistar rider is not currently in his plans. Indeed, doing this performance requires a training programme, costs and sacrifice. "It's down to the management, it's a big thing to organise an Hour Record. Personally I would like to have another crack. I've got a lot of time on my side though. It's a huge ask. At 52.9 kilometres I made no bones about it, that it was a controlled effort from me. However the next step, it's exponential to step from that to 54.5 is going to be massive, so it's not something I want to rush into. So it would be something to look at over the next eight or nine years."
"I would like to have another go because it was something I enjoyed doing, if just to better my own time, to take on something as monumental as Bradley's record, it needs to be very well planned and executed."
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