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POLAND — A professional mountain biker and BMX rider made history with a death-defying bike run on a moving train.

Polish rider Dawid Godziek completed the world's first mountain bike tricks on a moving train. His feat also made him the first person to ride a bike on a moving train and jump between the carriages.

He and his brother Szymon Godziek built the special mountain bike course on top of 10 freight trucks. They tested the track in a train yard before hitching the carriages to a moving train.

Szymon Godziek said there are three challenges to riding a bike on a moving train: not getting caught in a crosswind that could take him off the course, making sure Dawid and the train are moving at the same speed and landing the tricks on a narrow course that's less than 8 feet wide.

As if that wasn't enough, the last trick in the course is a "flat drop backflip" down some stairs, which has never been done on a mountain bike before. The rest of the tricks aren't a walk in the park either.

"I wanted the ride to contain the best tricks possible. Just riding the train would have been fun, but not enough," he said on Red Bull's website.

As with many crazy stunts, Red Bull sponsored the whole thing. Watching him flip and spin on his bike on the moving train makes me think Red Bull has actually given him wings.

"An MTB track on a moving train? I thought it had no right to succeed. Yet we managed it, and it was epic!" Dawid Godziek said.

I know how physics works, but seeing him appear to stand still as he rides the bike in the opposite direction of the train's movement is incredible.

"Everything is moving, but the course is not moving," Dawid Godziek said. "It's a weird feeling."

The Red Bull Bike Express took a year and a half from initial idea to realization, with 12 months alone going into designing the track and planning the feat.

A video of the full showstopping run can be found on Red Bull's YouTube channel.