Cycling World Records

William C. balanced a 35-pound barbell on his head for two minutes, 7.04 seconds while cycling a stationary bicycle.

William C. balanced a 65-pound barbell on his head for two minutes, 35.00 seconds while cycling a stationary bicycle.

Kenny Lewis whistled for 44.95 seconds while riding his bicycle though Death Valley. His tune of choice was Walking In The Air, the theme from the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs’ 1978 children’s book The Snowman[]. Lewis took the ride to raise money for WaterAid.

Spanish BMX rider Jose Manuel Martin Molina turned a niche balance challenge into a 60-jump mark, bouncing through back wheel pogo jumps on a BMX bike for 15 seconds while wearing a lifejacket in Ayamonte. The record combines BMX control with a deliberately odd constraint: the front wheel stays up, the lifejacket stays on, and every counted hop has to land cleanly on the back wheel.

Kiran Uniyal completed 52 bicycle kicks in ten seconds.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina of Ayamonte, Spain stands on the front pegs of his red BMX and hops on the front wheel 199 times, rear wheel held high, across a sunny tiled courtyard below a whitewashed bell tower. The low-angle phone video is a single 65 second take with no cuts: he starts by the stairs at the far end and keeps a steady three hops per second all the way to the camera before riding off. RecordSetter tracked every landing frame by frame and counted 199, nine more than his own previous mark of 190. The over-45 bracket has never looked so bouncy.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina of Ayamonte, Spain stands on the front pegs of his red BMX with the bike behind his back and pogo hops on the front wheel 355 times in an underground parking garage. The video is a single 2 minute 11 second take with no cuts, filmed from a low fixed angle in front of a green garage door, and the rear wheel stays in the air until he steps off at the end. RecordSetter tracked the rhythm of the hops across the take, about three per second, which comfortably covers his count. Most riders face the bars for this trick; he does it looking the other way.

Brian Pankey balanced a bicycle on his forehead and completed 24 catches while juggling three clubs, a RecordSetter.com World Record.

Jose Manuel Martin Molina rides his red BMX across a palm-lined plaza in Ayamonte, Spain, and five times in 20 seconds he pitches forward over the handlebars, flips upside down and lands on his feet. After every landing he grabs the bike, hops back on and rolls straight into the next one. We counted all five flips in his continuous 20-second clip, filmed from a fixed camera with the plaza's bandstand behind him. Most riders spend years trying not to go over the bars; he does it on purpose, on repeat.

Texas 4000, a group of University of Texas students preparing to cycle 4,000 miles to raise money to battle cancer, rode a trainer bike 31.50 miles in one hour, a new world record. Texas 4000 set the record during URDB’sBreakCancer party at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson were present as witnesses.[][] [#BreakCancer01][] []: http://recordsetter.com/search/BreakCancer01

Jose Manuel Martin Molina stands on the front pegs of his red BMX and pogo hops on the front wheel 129 times with his arms held out and his hands off the bars, in an underground parking garage in Ayamonte, Spain. The 49 second video is one continuous take from a low fixed camera: he lets go of the grips about a second in, hops from the far end of the garage all the way to the lens at about three hops per second, and turns side-on at the end with the back wheel still in the air before his hand goes back to the bars. RecordSetter counted the no-hands stretch twice, from the bounce on screen and from the sound of each landing, and both counts match his 129. That is 27 more than his earlier 102 on this record.

David Jimenez got on and off of a bicycle 27 times in one minute.

Alex Cunningham completed a triathlon. The whole course measures 22 feet in distance.