But even by those standards, Graeme Obree is a man apart. Obree was the amateur time-trialler from rural Scotland who shocked the sporting world by smashing the legendary one-hour record - twice. He ...

Obree did not have a very long career, but broke the world hour record twice – the first time in 1993, a record of 51.596 kilometres. He beat the record of cyclist Francesco Moser – 51.151 ...

In July 1993, Scotsman Graeme Obree broke cycling’s prestigious world hour record – riding on a home-made bike nicknamed “Old Faithful”.

Graeme Obree in his Superman position at the Olympic Velodrome at Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1996. Getty Images ...

MGM has bought distribution rights to The Flying Scotsman, which had its premiere in Edinburgh this year. Graeme Obree's story includes building a bike from washing machine parts, breaking racing ...

It's called the Bird of Prey, and it's a bicycle concept from the mind of one John Aldridge based upon a design that first received global attention back in 2012 when Graeme Obree set a world ...

It was the moment I heard Graeme Obree talk about drinking pints and pints of water before he went to bed to ensure he would get up every hour to go to the toilet as a method of ensuring his ...

Cut from the same cloth as pictures like The Flying Scotsman, about Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree who set a speed record on a home-made bike incorporating bits of an old washing machine, The Lost ...

A little further on is the unorthodox bike used by Scottish rider Graeme Obree to break the world hour record, a bike hand-made utilising various innovative techniques and some washing machine ...

Sir Chris Hoy, Ruby Wax and Graeme Obree launched a fundraiser for the charity in 2010 A Scottish mental health charity says it has been the victim of a "sophisticated and criminal" cyber attack ...