Sir Bradley Wiggins has set his sights on breaking the world hour distance time in June 2015, which he hopes will rejuvenate cycling’s most prestigious record. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Wiggins laid out his plans to set a marker for others to follow, after a rejig in the rules paved the way for a renewed use of aerodynamic kit.

“If I pencil it in, it will be in late June because of the good weather, and it leads on from Paris-Roubaix and the training for that,” Wiggins said. “I hope it is there to be broken and that I can pave the way for the next person, whether it’s Fabian [Cancellara] or Tony [Martin]. I’d like to rejuvenate it, re-establish a mark for everyone to attempt. You can’t underestimate how hard it is.”

The record dates back to 1876 and once carried immense prestige because of the greats who had attacked it over the years, including Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain. It fell out of favour after a UCI ruling in 2000 that limited aerodynamic aids to those available to Merckx, and which removed from the record books distances set by Chris Boardman, Indurain, Francesco Moser and Graeme Obree. The new rules on aerodynamics – permitting anything that is currently allowed on the track – open the way for a bid by big names such as Wiggins and Cancellara, who also has his eyes on it.

Wiggins’s desire to add his name to the hour record holders’ list is backed by Team Sky head Sir Dave Brailsford, who is currently involved in negotiations over the 2012 Tour de France winner’s contract for 2015-6. “We’d be behind him for sure,” Brailsford told the Guardian during the Tour de France.

“He ought to try it. For him and his career, at some point, it would be a shame if he didn’t have a crack at it, given the change in the rules and so on. I think he can do it and if you can do something you should have a crack at it.”

The 2012 Olympic time trial champion is set to race the Grand Prix of Plouay in Brittany this weekend before taking on the Tour of Britain from 7-14 September as a prelude to the world time trial championship. This comes at the end of a season of mixed fortunes in which Wiggins rode well in the Paris-Roubaix Classic – another possible target for 2015 – and won the Tour of California. He was left out of Sky’s team for the Tour de France because of possible conflict with the 2013 winner Chris Froome, but he compensated by racing in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where he took a silver medal in the team pursuit for England.