The UCI Hour Record is perhaps the purest discipline in cycling: man and machine against the clock. The man, Sir Bradley Wiggins, needs no introduction, and this the machine the 35-year-old role to smash the record.

Pinarello and Jaguar combined to provide Wiggins with this, the Pinarello Bolide HR – an adapted version of the Italian firm’s Bolide TT bike, on which Wiggins won the world time trial title in Ponferrada last year.

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Jaguar offered its aerodynamic expertise for the project, resulting in a claimed 7.5 per cent aero improvement over the roadworthy Bolide, thanks largely to a new one-piece handlebar, and updated fork design.

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This is the bike on which Wiggins covered 219 laps of the track at London’s Lee Valley VeloPark to set an new UCI Hour Record benchmark of 54.526km.