BMX Action january 1984 : Well gang, looks like there's a new world record for long distance wheelies. We received a letter from the president of the French Association of BMX (Association Francaise de Bi-Crossing), certifying that 18 year old Stephane (no, it's not a girl's name) Colley from Paris, France, wheelied 22,53 miles! (That's 36.248 kilometers for you metric fans.) It took him 2 hours, 29 minutes to complete the feat. Can anyone Certify that they have topped this?
BMX Action Bike december 1985 : Fabrice Bussy, the BH freestyler has just gone in the '86 Guiness Book of Records with the world's longest rampless long jump at 6.04 metres (19ft 9inches). Any takers ?
- le saut le plus long a été réalisé par Brian Lopes (présent a Bercy) avec 30 pieds 30 pouce. La rampe d'appel avait 2 pieds de haut pour 6 pieds de long. Brian, pour réaliser ce mega jump, a pris un élan de 100 pieds.
- L'aérial le plus hip revient à Brian Blyther avec 10 pieds 2 pouces.
- Le Bunny Hop le plus haut est de 40 pouces 1/4 et c'est Max du team Hutch qui l'a réalisé.
- Chris Day enregistre 9 Boomerang 1/2.
Bruno : J'ai fait ce record pour un centre commercial qui me sponsorisait a l'époque, c' était le 1er mai 1989. Ils m'avaient demandé un truc qui serait médiatique a l'occasion de la fête du vélo. C'était bunny hop ou wheeling (j'avais fait 22 km sur la roue arrière à l'époque) et j'ai choisi les Bunny hop. Le saut mesurait environ 6.50m a l'entrainement mais le jour du record les gens couchés étaient moins bien rangés et donc c'était plus long, soit 7.30 m d'après l' huissier qui a homologué le record.
Standing at 6 ft 6, Ryan Brennan was in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the tallest competitor in the1998 X-Games.
The highest air achieved on a BMX bicycle is 8.07 m (26.5 ft) by Mat Hoffman (USA), from a 7.31 m (24 ft) tall quarterpipe ramp on 20 March 2001, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
However, Hoffman was towed by a motorcycle in the runup to the jump. The highest ever air on a halfpipe is 5.8 m (19 ft), by Dave Mirra (USA) off a 5.4 m (18 ft) tall ramp in San Diego, California, USA in January 2001.
Martti Kuoppa inscrit son nom au Guinness Book of Records with rolling no-footed on the front wheel of his bike for 100 meters and doing 59 pinky squeaks in a minute.
Most BMX Pinky Squeaks
Andreas Lindqvist (Sweden) completed 98 continuous rotations of his 50.8 cm (20 in) freestyle BMX bike whilst balancing on just the front wheel on 30 October 2001.
Highest Indoor BMX Jump
The highest indoor BMX ramp jump is 5.12 m (16.79 ft) by Germany's Timo Pritzel and Spain's Jesús Fuentes on the set of El Show de los Records, Spain, on September 21, 2001.
April 2002, Stephen Murray entered the Red Bull "High Air" contest at the European King Of Dirt Series in Leipzig, Germany and took first! This was big as his winning jump of 5.55 meters was an officially recognized Guinness World Record!
www.dcshoes.com, 2/19/2003 : When asked what he wanted to do for his DC ad, Allan jumped at the opportunity: he wanted to do a backflip farther than anyone else had. DC BMX team manager Brian Botts set up the location at the remote Point X Camp, located east of Temecula, California. A tall, steep roll-in, with about four feet of near vert at the very top, led down to a skinny metal jump ramp, the same kind used by freestyle motocrossers. The initial gap was 45 feet wide. The landing was an incredibly steep bank ramp that funneled into a 20-foot-tall quarter pipe. Allan supervised the construction on Saturday evening, and on Sunday he went for it. He backflipped the initial distance of 45 feet, then moved the take-off ramp back five feet. He threw a single straight air to gauge the new distance, then followed it with a 50-foot backflip. Once again, the take-off ramp was moved back five feet. Allan aired it, climbed to the top of the roll-in, hopped in, and threw another backflip for a final distance of 54 feet.
Never mind backflipping 54 feet over hard desert ground and an unforgiving wood ramp—Allan’s biggest worry was the wind: I was so high up that the desert wind started to worry me, I could feel it pushing at me at the top of the roll-in, and I was worried it’d blow me off the landing. But it all worked out. This flip was really hard to calculate because you had to adjust your rotation for both the distance and the speed, I had to just trust that once I got in the air my instincts would take over and I would stick the landing.
The record for the most gyrator spins in one minute is 33 by Sam Foakes (UK) at the offices of Guinness World Records in London, UK, on July 20, 2004.
