Bradley Wiggins's 10 mile record attempt: everything you need to know

This weekend Sir Bradley Wiggins will try and take back his ten mile comp record. But what is this event all about, and why is he doing it?

Bradley Wiggins on stage 3b of the 2015 3-Days of De Panne

(Image credit: Watson)

This Saturday will see Sir Bradley Wiggins line up in his world champions skin suit at the City Road Club open ten mile time trial alongside weekend warriors. It's a dream come true for the other riders in the field as they will forever more be able to say they raced against Bradley Wiggins. This unique, but very popular, branch of British cycle racing isn't well known outside of the sport itself so here we explain a little more.

What is the 10m TT record?

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Simon Richardson