COMMONWEALTH Games time-trial champion Alex Dowsett will attempt to break The Hour Record at the Olympic Velodrome.

Dowsett’s Movistar team confirmed that the 26-year-old from Cock Clarks will make his bid on February 27 during the Revolution event at the Lee Valley VeloPark.

The hour record has had a resurgence due to the UCI’s decision to change the rules about the permitted equipment and to allow more modern – and thus faster – bikes than in recent years.

Dowsett’s Movistar team has reportedly booked out the London 2012 velodrome for at least 12 one-hour sessions at a cost of £500 a time.

The British rider also revealed he has been at the drag2zero wind tunnel at Silverstone twice in the last two weeks, and will be in there again on January 19. He’ll then return to Lee Valley VeloPark for further track testing.

Dowsett, a haemophilia sufferer, said: “Everyone understands a world record, so I wanted my next target to be the Hour Record.

“The Hour is something I’ve always been interested in; the simplicity of it, mostly – no tactics, no hiding, just you and the bike.

“Now I’ve got a new sense of drive as I know that the more success I can achieve, the more hope it will give everyone in the whole rare disease community.

“We spend our childhoods being told what we can’t do, so I’m going for the record for anyone that gets told what they can’t do something and goes out to prove themselves otherwise.

“I’m training a hell of a lot harder because of it.”