Aurélien Fontenoy was not allowed to let his feet touch the ground while cycling up the Eiffel Tower on Friday. Reuters

There are not many world records in sports which last for more than 23 years.

Then again, there are not many records you look at and think “Where did someone even get the idea to do that?”

On Friday, one of those bizarre records fell when cyclist and social media star Aurélien Fontenoy rode his bicycle to the second floor of the Eiffel Tower , the highest platform that can be accessed by stairs.

He did so in 12 minutes and 30 seconds, smashing the previous record set by Hugues Richard in 2002 by nearly seven minutes.

The thing about cycling up 686 steps, though, is that you can’t exactly do much pedaling.

“For this challenge, I brake my brake, and I just to ha

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