I had a posting earlier on Erika Salumäe and her bikes. According to the Tunturi/Rossin 1989 catalog Erika Salumäe set a new world record at the Helsinki velodrome in the summer of 1988. The event was 1000 m time trial. I could not find any info on this anywhere else. The problem is that e.g. UCI does not list this kind of records as the 'official' distance for women is 500 m.
Erika Salumäe still has the 500 m time trial world record from 1987 in Moscow (UCI)! In theory the 1000 m time trial world record set at the Helsinki velodrome by Erika Salumäe could also still be valid, which would be cool as hell!!
Erika Salumäe still has the 500 m time trial world record from 1987 in Moscow (UCI)! In theory the 1000 m time trial world record set at the Helsinki velodrome by Erika Salumäe could also still be valid, which would be cool as hell!!
Here is Erika with her World Championship and Olympic gold medals around her neck + Rossin bike and Gipiemme disc wheels in the bag.
See some more of the Helsinki Olympic velodrome here, here, here and here.
Go fast and turn right? More Olympic cycling here and here. Seems that I still need to make the third set at some point.
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