G. Obree's so-called Superman TT position had already been banned by UCI long ago. One superman go, another superman come.
The poor Obree retired after the ban and tried to hang himself on a tree some years ago but was saved in the last second by a girl who happened to have a walk in the forest. We miss the superman.
I was unaware that this position was invented by Graeme Obree. I did a quick engine search on Obree and found lots of info about him and this technique.
I remember seeing television footage of him training for the one hour record in his back garden on nothing more than a clapped-out bicycle trainer - very simple setup.
Funny to think that this was all going on just two towns away from me when I lived in Scotland!
G. Obree's superman style is to stretch out the entire arms in front of him. In the above picture the body is stretched out but the arms are somewhat bent. Obree had used this style to break the hour record at around 1994/1995. Ironically the current hour record was set by Chris Boardman in 1996 using Obree's superman style, Obree's long term opponent. Before the superman style, Obree had already set an hour record using a 'tuck' style in 1993, another style invented by Obree which was also banned by UCI. Without his series of attempts, perhaps the hour record today will still be the record set by Moser in 1984.
