Sebastiaan Bowier

In September 2013, he achieved a speed of 133.78 kilometres per hour (83.13 mph) in a human powered vehicle (HPV), breaking the previous world record.

[2] On 15 September 2013, Bowier broke the International Human Powered Vehicle Association record, previously set by Canadian Sam Whittingham in 2009, by 0.6 kilometres per hour (0.37 mph).

[4] The VeloX3 bicycle he used has a profiled carbon fibre shell covered with the same type of coating used on Formula One cars.

[4] It experiences approximately one-tenth of the drag of a conventional bicycle, and uses a camera on the top for navigation.

[7] He trained for 15 to 20 hours every week for a year, under a regime chosen by Human Movement Sciences students from VU University in Amsterdam.