Markus Stockl recently beat his own World Record for the highest speed achieved on a production downhill bike on dirt. In case you were skeptical, here’s a quick run down of all the kit he used:
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It’s all stuff you could pick up off a shelf at a local bike shop – no protostypes, no special tech (red suit aside, of course). It just goes to show how advanced and capable the kit we ride is.
Stockl said: “My idea of downhill mountain biking is that you should be able buy everything in a shop. That means I didn’t want any special parts on my bike. It should be a bike – not a motorbike without an engine.”
Here’s a run down of the fastest kit on planet Earth:
