Australian Robbie Maddison broke Monday night the world record for the longest motorcycle jump at an exhibition at the Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel. Maddison leapt 322 feet, 7˝ inches (98. 34 meters), easily breaking the Guinness World Records of 277 feet and 6 inches (84. 58 meters) set by Trigger Gumm in 2005 in Australia. It also beat Ryan Capes's non-certified mark of 310 feet and 4 inches (94. 59 meters). Capes, a native of Kent, Washington, set the unofficial record also in 2005.

A virtual nuclear fusion reaction has been modeled on a supercomputer running for 20 minutes on bicycle power pedaled by 10 cyclists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The students duly claimed a world record for human-powered computing, saying the task produced more computations in those 20 minutes than all of humanity did in the first 3,000 years of civilization. They also said that more arithmetic calculations were computed than were done on the entire earth up to 1960.

Running on a Russian tank engine, a giant motorcycle dubbed as Led Zeppelin by its creator has been duly acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest motorbike. The bike weighs four-and-a-half ton and measures 17 feet four inches long by seven feet six inches tall prompting creator Tilo Nieber, to remark, "You don't get much more heavy metal than this. "

A man was apprehended by police officials Sunday for riding his bike along the hallways of a motel, hitting two people in the process. Withholding the name of the suspect, police reported that the man was wearing nothing but a pair of swimming trunks as he was zipping down the hallway of the Best Western Soldiers Field Tower and Suites, reported the Associated Press.