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Chinese motorcycle entrepreneur sets world record for riding on water

Zhang Xue, founder of ZXMOTO, covered six laps of a Hunan river on a modified bike, with Guinness checking GPS data on location; the bike never sank.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorZhang Xue, founder of the motorcycle maker ZXMOTO, rode forty point seven four kilometers across water in his hometown in Hunan Province on Sunday.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe old record was thirty-one point eight.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentForty kilometers. On a river. How does a motorcycle not just sink?

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorChina's Global Times says it had amphibious skis, a bigger fuel tank and extra waterproofing.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIt builds speed on land, then skims, with a front ski steering.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDoes this change my commute?

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNo. Guinness checked the GPS data and recordings, and a judge confirmed it on site, after six laps.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorBeijing Review says his first try years ago went twenty meters. In four separate pieces.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFour falls for twenty meters. That's a rough first episode.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFour falls. Twenty meters. And the footage Guinness checked is the other one.

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