September 26, 2015 at 10:49 am
105 Year Old ‘Golden Bolt’ Sets World Record for 100m Sprint
105-year-old Hidekichi Miyazaki recently set the 100m world record for the 105+ category with an impressive time of 42.22 seconds.
105-year-old Hidekichi Miyazaki recently set the 100m world record for the 105+ category with an impressive time of 42.22 seconds.
Watch Collin Burns break the world record for fastest 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube solve with a time of 5.253 seconds. The previous record of 5.55 seconds was held by Mats Valk from the Netherlands. The feat was accomplished during the final round of an official Rubik’s Cube competition on April 25 at Central Bucks West…
Watch 95-year-old Dr. Charles Eugster set a new age-group World Record in the indoor 200m—his age-group is 95 years and over. His new record of 55.48″ knocked a massive 2.4″ off the previous record, set by American Orville Rogers in March 2013. To learn more about Eugster, visit http://www.silvergreysportsclub.com.
An incredible first-person POV of the first test run on the Fury 325 roller coaster at Carowinds Park. Debuting this spring, Fury 325 will be the world’s tallest & fastest ‘giga’ coaster (a type of roller-coaster with a height or drop ranging from 300 ft to 399 ft and completes a full circuit). The…
Watch this guy take friends and family for a ride in a Tesla S P85D. These are their reaction to going from 0-60 mph in the fastest four door sedan in the world.
On 7 November 2014 at the famous Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France, François Gissy reached a top speed of 333 km/h (207 mph) on a rocket-propelled bicycle designed by his friend Arnold Neracher. The top speed was achieved around the 250-meter mark and the bike travelled a quarter-mile in less than 7…
How fast could you go on a fixed-gear, 104-tooth chain ring bike? That’s what frame builder Tom Donhou and his friends sought to answer. Inspired by the men of the salt flats in the 60s who pushed the land speed record from the 300s up towards the 600 mph mark in jet-propelled cars built…
Mountain biker Bryan Gregory of Foxwood Films took his border collie Kaia with him for a ride through a local trail in Port Moody, BC, Canada. Kaia initially let Bryan lead the way but she eventually turned things up a notch, leaving her owner in the dust. Some sites (here, here and here) have…
Photograph by NASA Since 1976, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird has held the world record for the fastest ‘air-breathing manned aircraft’ with a recorded speed of 1,905.81 knots (2,193.2 mph; 3,529.6 km/h). That works out to a staggering 36.55 miles/58.83 km per minute. The Blackbird was so fast that its strategy against surface-to-air missiles was…
Photograph by DECKSTER1965 CHEETAHS: THE WORLD’S FASTEST LAND ANIMALS The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large-sized feline inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. They are the only felid with non-retractable claws and pads that, by their scope, disallow gripping (therefore cheetahs cannot climb vertical trees, although they are…
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