Production bike downhill on snow (unpaced)

What to remember

A serial production mountain bike and a snowy slope: in 2007 Austria's Markus Stöckl descended at 210.4 km/h (130.7 mph), unpaced, with no vehicle ahead to break the wind.

The words "serial production" matter: together with an unpaced downhill run on snow, they define a record category of its own. Most cycling records are set under special circumstances, here a terrain that favours speed.

From Oberndorf in Tirol and nicknamed Hercules, Stöckl focused mainly on mountain bike racing. He also chased speed on gravel: in 2011, on a volcano in Nicaragua, he reached 164.95 km/h, beating a mark by Éric Barone, and in 2017, in the Atacama region of Chile, he went up to 167.6 km/h.