Markus Stockl is called 'Mad Max' for good reason - the Austrian daredevil achieves feats and speeds most of us would think impossible. His latest landmark record is smashing his own downhill speed ...

It was February 2017 when Markus ‘Mad Max’ Stöckl stood at the top a 1,200m descent in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Already, he boasted the landspeed world record for mountain biking with a seemingly ...

People say Markus Stockl is the real life Mad Max, but not because he is fighting some evil leader in the desert, but because he uses that place mainly to reach high speeds on a bicycle. Markus ‘Max’ ...

Watch Austrian Markus Stockl break his own downhill speed record for a mountain bike by reaching 104.1mph (167.6km/hour) in Chile.

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How the Austrian set about breaking a world record he already owned in the barren landscape of Chile’s Atacama Desert. It was February 2017 when Markus ‘Mad Max’ Stöckl stood at the top a 1,200m ...