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Record Holder Profile Video: Bharat Sinh Parmar and the world’s longest motorbike

By Rachel Swatman
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In this Record Holder Profile Video, Guinness World Records pictures team travels to Lakhota Lake, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India to shoot the world’s Longest motorcycle – an impressive vehicle that measures a staggering 26.29 m (86 ft 3 in) long.
 

 
A huge mass of onlookers gathered round to watch eccentric inventor Bharat Sinh Parmar (India) ride and pose on his super-stretched motorcycle.
 
To attain his record Bharat had to successfully ride the bike for a minimum distance of 100 m (328 ft) continuously and unassisted – a tricky challenge for such a long, two-wheeled vehicle.
 

 
Proving that people go to enormous lengths to get into Guinness World Records, Bharat’s motorcycle is more than 4 m (13 ft) longer than the previous record holder’s.
 
Mr Parmar said: “To receive a Guinness World Records title is a matter of pride, and from here we can achieve new ones.”
 
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Bharat’s giant invention appears alongside hundreds of massive achievements in the Guinness World Records 2016 book: out now