Yeah, but let's see him pedal back up.

This Austrian guy, Markus Stoeckl, just set a new speed record for mountain biking.

How fast? 130 mph.



My car tops out around 75. But I don't have to slap a Red Bull decal on it, so that's something.

Also, no flicking lit cigarettes into the brush.

Remember when you were a kid, and you liked to throw rocks? Especially when you'd hiked to the top of a ridge, so you could chuck a rock out into space and let gravity do the rest?

Boom! Fun times! The freedom of not knowing any better!

Well, just in case your parents didn't set you straight: DON'T THROW ROCKS DOWN MOUNTAINS.

This is a sad story, and the guy who threw the rock is going to have a hard time enjoying a hike anytime soon. He sounds like a good person who made a stupid decision. But man, chucking a 15-20 pound rock downhill is Super-Sized Stupid.

Now I have to go find a funny story about Lindsey Lohan or something to wash the taste out of my mouth.

Whitewater jaw-dropper.

Well, there's a new world record for craziest drop by a surviving kayaker. Alexandra Falls. 107 feet.

Is there video footage, you ask? Well . . . kinda. Ed Lucero made this drop a few years ago, but he popped out of his kayak when he hit the pool -- which doesn't count in the record books. Ouch.



Sometimes, I watch whitewater kayaking videos and it makes me want to grab a paddle. This is not one of those videos.

Props, gentlemen. Props from a safe, dry distance.

Faking it (on the telly!)

Ever seen the TV show "Man vs. Wild"? English guy? Parachutes into the wilderness and slogs his way back into civilization? Yeah, me neither.

Turns out the "Man" -- who is named "Bear" -- has a secret wilderness survival technique: staying in hotels.

Mr Grylls was also staying in a hotel in Hawaii while filming an episode where he claimed to be a "real-life Robinson Crusoe" stuck on a desert island.

Channel 4 has confirmed that Mr Grylls used hotels during expeditions and has ordered the production company that made the show to investigate the other claims.

Bear Grylls has a history of, as they say in the TV business, "making shit up." Recently he's been telling people he paraglided over Mt. Everest. And the reason nobody saw him do it is WE'RE ALL JEALOUS.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to swim the Amazon. Upstream.

Okay, THAT'S extreme.

The X-Games Bandit has struck again!

Haven't heard of the XGB? He probably needs more sponsors. Then he wouldn't have to rob banks and escape on his skateboard. Or bike. He likes to switch it up.

Police believe he's responsible for four other bank robberies in the Sacramento area. After each crime, he's left the scene on a BMX-type bicycle or a skateboard.

Five bank robberies? No car? Northern California? I'm guessing he's sponsored by meth.