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Fastest mobile bed

The fastest mobile bed was created and driven by Edd China (United Kingdom) and reached a maximum speed of 69 mph (111 km/h) along a private road in London, United Kingdom, on 7 November 2008 as part of Guinness World Records Day 2008. It is a roadworthy bed.

Fastest morse code, sent and received

Les Edwards using morse code sent the prescribed 160 character message to Ray Carter. Ray received the message by a morse code receiver and then typed it onto a piece of paper using an old fashioned typewriter in 1 minute and 8 seconds on the set of Guinness World Records at Seven Network Studios, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 27 August 2005.

Fastest monohull vessel to row the Atlantic east to west (“Trade Winds I” route)

The fastest east¬west transatlantic crossing via the Trade Winds I route was achieved by the six crew of the Sara G Matt Craughwell, Graham Carlin (both UK), Thomas Cremona (Malta), Rob Byrne, Adam Burke (both Ireland) and Fiann Paul (Iceland), who rowed 2,753 nautical miles (5,099 km; 3,168 miles) from Tarfaya, Morocco, to Barbados, West Indies, in 33 days 21 hr 46 min from 5 January to 8 February 2011 at an average overall speed of 3.386 knots (6.3 km/h; 3.9 mi/h).

Fastest motorcycle wheelie

The highest speed attained on the back wheel of a motorcycle is 307.86 km/h (191.3 mph) by Patrick Fürstenhoff on a Honda Super Blackbird 1100 cc Turbo at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, Leicestershire, England, on 18 April 1999.