Elias Schwärzler is a mountain bike Youtuber who is always trying to implement particularly good ideas that are somewhere between Nitro Circus and Jackass. For example, using a self-developed skid construction on his bike to be pulled across the Danube by a motorboat. It didn't work. Or back and front flips on a bungee rope - successfully.

And now a Guinness World Record. The art of getting into the book of records is mainly about finding a discipline that has not yet been exhausted or that doesn't even exist yet. This is not the case with eating chocolate lentils with chopsticks, for example. The current world record is 42 pieces eaten in one minute.

The activity that the Austrian has chosen is to be pulled by a motorcycle on a standard mountain bike. A discipline in which there was no Guinness World Record before Schwärzler's attempt, as the organization confirmed on request. Schwärzler then set himself the target of 300 km/h. The record was to be broken at the Lausitzring in eastern Germany. And he did - at a comfortable 272 km/h instead of the 300 he was aiming for. "We had a headwind, we were completely at the limit." The 300 km/h is still a goal. It is also embroidered on his leather suit. That would be a shame. So the crazy mission continues.

Less fast, but at least as impressive was Markus Stöckl on his speed record, also on a standard mountain bike, but without a motorcycle and with an even better suit. On the 45 degree steep flank of a volcano (= 100 percent gradient), Schwärzler's compatriot reached 167 km/h powered by gravity alone.