Elias Schwärzler (Austrian born in 1995) managed to beat the Guinness World Record for speed on a bike, riding a Scott Gambler, reaching 272 km / h! The German achieved this incredible speed, not with his legs of course, but pulled by a Honda Fireblade CBR1000RR-R (in this case the Geri Gesslbauer World Endurance Championship).
The only particular modification made to the bike, which lightened it a lot, was to fit Continental Race King tires (cross country) with Tubolito inner tube.
Like all Guinness World Records you have to take them for what they are: 272 km / h is the highest speed ever reached on a MTB but with tow as to reach them we have chosen a closed circuit (Lausitz-Ring in Brandenburg, north-east of Germany) with a long straight and they hooked the Scott Gambler (set up for the occasion) to the bike. The records of the past, for example the one obtained by Max Stöckl, were naturally made downhill (without towing) where the Austrian had reached (2017) the 167 km / h.
GUINNES WORLD RECORD VIDEO
HISTORY
MAX STOCKL (2017)
Max Stöckl, manager of the MS-Racing Mondraker MTB World Cup team, reached 2017 km / h on a mountain in the Chilean Atacama Desert in 167.
JOHN BONAZZI
Giovanna Bonazzi, former world champion downhill in 1991 and 1993, still holds the speed record on snow, at a speed of 158 km/h conquered in Mammoth Mountains (1996). Big Gio!
