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Bicycling

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts) Mon Apr 22, 2013, 04:34 PM Apr 2013

135 mph downhill pedal bike

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/excursions/post/mountain-biker-rockets-down-ski-slope-at-135-mph/

Eric “The Red Baron” Barone, a high-speed mountain bike specialist from France, shot like a rocket down a steep slope at the Les Arcs ski resort in France on Monday, setting a world record for speed on a serial production mountain bike on snow at 135 mph.