Traveling at 130 mph on a bicycle

I think the only times I ever travel faster than 100 mph is when I’m in an airplane (and when I am in an airplane, I hardly feel the speed). So when I think about how Markus Stockl from Austria broke the land speed record on mountain bike on September 13, my mind sort of explodes and stops working.

But the facts are quickly listed: On September 13 the Austrian rode his “Intense M6” faster than any person before him on a basic, no-frills mountain bike. On a 1.6 kilometer long ski slope with a decline of up to 45 degrees he reached the speed of 210.4 km/h (130.74 mph) – and thus broke his own eight-year-old record by 23 km/h.

Watch the video of him traveling down the snowy slope below.