Nov 16 - Britain's Paul Swift has spent most of his life on two wheels - starting with the garden lawn mower.
Now he is among the super-skilled people, expert at doing unusual and difficult things that are being celebrated on Thursday by Guinness World Records Day.
Swift, who has graduated to driving a pickup truck on only two of its wheels managed a record-breaking squeeze through an 88-centimetre gap set up in a stunt area at Britain's Silverstone race course.
"I&rsquo;ve been driving on two wheels since the age of seven - I started on the garden lawn mower - so to get a world record that recognizes that is fantastic," he said.
Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday, who was on hand to adjudicate Swift's record ride, said this year's theme is super skills.
"Guinness World Records Day is a global celebration of the superlative," he said.
Other record-breakers being lauded include a team in Japan. It broke the record for consecutive, double-dutch-style handstand-skipping with two people, which involves skipping while performing handstands as ropes are turned in opposite directions.
In China, the extremely agile Zhou Quan set a record for the highest number of consecutive leg full twist back somersaults, managing 11 in a row.
The United States, meanwhile, boasts Henry Cabelus who holds eight world records after achieving the highest backflip Pogo Stick jump, making it over a height of 3.07 meters (10.07 ft). "I feel pretty good about that, that just makes me want to go for ten now. So I&rsquo;ve got to start thinking about the other ones," he said.
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(Reporting by Sarah Mills; editing by Barbara Lewis)

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Guinness World Records day celebrates the super skilled and superlative