Production bike downhill on a volcano (unpaced)

What to remember

In Chile's Atacama region in 2017, Austrian rider Markus Stöckl raced down the slopes of a volcano at 167.6 km/h on a serial production bicycle, with no pacing. A mountain biker from Oberndorf in Tirol, he made his name with downhill speed records on production bikes.

It was not his first mark on such ground. In 2011, on a volcano in Nicaragua, he had reached 164.95 km/h on gravel, beating a previous record by Éric Barone. On snow, he had gone as fast as 210 km/h in 2007.

The record belongs to a precise category: outdoors, downhill on a volcano, unpaced, on a bike anyone could buy. Cycling has many records like this, because terrain, machines and rules differ so much that no single mark can name the fastest cyclist.