Duel between Marcel Berthet and Oscar Egg for the hour record

Portraits of the cyclists Oscar Egg and Marcel Berthet

The hour record, riding the longest distance as possible during exactly 60 minutes was a populare challenge since the birt of the bicycle. Actually there were several “first” records during the 19th century: James Moore, a British cyclist set the record of 23,3 km in 1873, but most likely it wasn’t an accurataly measured distance, … Read more