Talk:Jack Rose (colonel)

Hour record
It is unlikely that Rose broke the hour record and that he rode 48km in doing so - see |Wikipedia account of UCI historic hour records. Professional cyclists at that time were only covering 40km - 48km was a monumental distance only achieved in the late 1960s. Paul W (talk) 09:53, 8 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Mystery solved. It was a human-paced record - found source (Cape Town City Cycling Club website). Other cyclists had ridden further; a south London rider, J. W. Stocks, set an unbeaten British record of 32 mi in an hour behind pacers on 27 September 1897 (see Motor-paced racing article), but I am guessing he may have been a professional. Paul W (talk) 11:45, 8 November 2022 (UTC)