Bradley Wiggins and Francesco Moser have expressed contrasting views over the validity of cycling's hour record - ahead of the former's attempt to set a new benchmark this weekend.

Jens Voigt, Matthias Brandle, Rohan Dennis and Alex Dowsett have each broken the record inside the last nine months, with Dowsett's distance of 52.937km the target that Wiggins will seek to overhaul at London's Olympic velodrome on Sunday.

The absolute record of 56.375km was set by Chris Boardman in the now-banned 'Superman' position in 1996, before the International Cycling Union (UCI) changed its rules to prohibit the use of bikes featuring technological advantages.

Moser - a previous record-holder - told Perform: "The UCI should reactivate the old rules record. Bikes have improved since then.

"The record is Boardman's 56km - those who can try to beat it are Wiggins, [Fabian] Cancellara and [Tony] Martin, those three … and Adriano Malori who recently proved to be at their level.

"But Wiggins, with his track background is way more likely to beat it than the others."

Wiggins told Perform: "I disagree strongly. Chris Boardman rode in 1996 and some of the stuff he was doing then aerodynamically was streets ahead of anything now that you're allowed with the regulations and the bike itself beats anything in the wind tunnel today.

"Other than the suits we've moved into since Chris' time he was 20 years ahead of his time."