To put into perspective, that's two seconds faster than Filippo Ganna's gold medal time at the 2023 Worlds. Asked if road teams took notice of his performance, Charlton said: "I had a few nearly opportunities come about after the world record in Copenhagen, but nothing really came of it."
"My agent had five or six different WorldTour teams asking for data, asking for TrainingPeaks, stuff like that. It’s a difficult time to do such a good ride like that in October, when rosters have been decided, budgets have been used up. If I’d done it in September, maybe it would have been a different story."
"It just shows there is potential, there’s definitely interest. I’ve got to keep pushing, keep driving, doing fast times, winning stuff, and eventually they’ll hopefully take notice," Charlton expresses.
Like many other British riders, Charlton found it unpleasant for his then team Trinity Racing to have folded at the end of last season. "I’m lucky that I’ve got the track, and I’ve got the funding from British Cycling, so I can still keep doing it," he said. "I know there’s a lot of guys, even guys who I rode with, who had to end their careers because the team folded."
"The guys I’m competing against, guys like Filippo Ganna and Jonathan Milan – Milan has won everything at the UAE Tour this week, and Ganna’s Ganna – if you’re going as fast as those guys, surely you’re going to be of some use to the big teams," Charlton said.