This is how you go rubber: Riding down the mountain at 167 km/h

In the Atacama Desert, Markus "Max" Stöckl breaks the world speed record with a production mountain bike on gravel at 167 km/h. He beats his own record of 164.95 km/h.

Those who travel to Chile to the Región de Atacama, over 11,000 kilometers away as the crow flies, to plunge down a mountain on a bike can really only have one thing in mind: a world record! And that's exactly what 42-year-old Tyrolean downhill expert Max Stöckl, three hours from the town of Copiapó, managed to do after years of preparation on a standard mountain bike on gravel. The new record has been set: Stöckl reached 167.6 km/h, 2.65 km/h faster than on his last record ride.

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