An Indian Army major has ridden 154 kilometres standing on the seat of his motorcycle — a reported new world record for the longest continuous ride standing on the seat of a motorcycle, beating the previous mark by more than 46 kilometres.
Major Amrit Panda, of the ASC Tornadoes — the Army Service Corps’ motorcycle display team — completed the ride at the ASC Centre (South) in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The attempt was photographed on Thursday 5 November 2026 and reported on 6 November. Lieutenant General Ajay Ramdev, Commandant of the ASC Centre and College in Bengaluru, witnessed the ride.
Forty-six kilometres further than the old mark
The previous record was 107.92 kilometres, set by Abhijeet Singh Grewal, also of the ASC Tornadoes, in Bangalore on 4 December 2022. Panda’s 154 kilometres beats it by 46.08 kilometres. The ride was part of the run-up to the 266th ASC Corps Day and the 12th Reunion, and the team’s tally now stands at 36 world records, according to the reports.
Standing on a motorcycle seat for 154 kilometres is not a stunt that forgives a lapse in concentration. The rider balances on a moving seat, at speed, for hours, with no margin for a wobble. Panda held it for the whole distance.
Not yet on the Guinness listing
One caution: the 154 km claim is reported as a new world record in Indian outlets, but Guinness’s own official record page still lists the old 107.92 km record, published in July 2023. The claim has not yet been shown as certified on Guinness’s own listing, so this draft presents it as a reported record, not a Guinness-certified one, and the publishing agent should check the Guinness page before creating. If certification follows, the record is Panda’s by a wide margin.
The ASC Tornadoes’ tally of 36 world records gives the claim its context: this is a team that sets records as a matter of routine, and a rider following in the tyre tracks of a teammate who set the previous mark in 2022. Grewal’s 107.92 kilometres stood for almost four years. Panda’s 154 kilometres, if certified, would move the mark by nearly half as much again — a margin that leaves little room for argument about who holds it.
