Bikes can go even faster

AUSTRALIA’S world recordbreaking team pursuiters have warned their rivals, including Great Britain, that they can go even faster – and will have to if they want Olympic redemption in Tokyo in 2020.

Sam Welsford, the linchpin of the team that became the first to go sub 3:50 with a 3:49.8 in Brisbane last week, believes the ride was only 90 per cent of what they’re capable of producing on the big stage.

“I think going under 50 and the first team to do it two years after the Games is going to rattle a few teams and countries for sure,” he said. “But we can’t get complacent and we’ll have to go faster at Tokyo.

“It’s only 90 per cent of what we’re capable of, I think.

“We might even be able to drop half-a-second or a second, a 48. Imagine if we could do that. It would be insane.

“This will project us towards Tokyo with a lot of belief.”

The team’s flying mullet and starter, Alex Porter, was even more bullish about what could be achieved in two years.