There are lots of whacky Guinness World Records, and this is surely one of them.
Aided by titanium shoes and a slightly modified Kawasaki Ninja H2 SX, motorcycle stunt rider Jonny Davies has added another Guinness World Record to his accomplishments for what's got to be one of the more thrilling events included in the compendium.
For his third Guinness record, Davies, also known as JD Stunts, got the Ninja screaming along a runway at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire, England, before shimmying himself off the back of the bike and holding on to a specially built rear grab rail. He then used a modified thumb-controlled throttle to accelerate the bike up to an impressive 159.522 mph (256.725 km/h), which was enough to take him over the previous 1999 record of a man getting dragged by a motorbike.
"It felt that fast my left foot was actually going airborne," he said, "and I thought ‘I hope that has broken the record because I don't want to do that again.’"
Want to see the record breaking event? Here's a short video...