The cycling of the Cirque du Soleil won't break any records for speed, but they can get an astounding number of people on the same bike! Most members of this team haev been working together for the last three years at the National Circus School in Montreal. Nathalie Sabourin and Nicolas Dupéré are two "mistresses" of these experts in this exacting discipline whom you'll see in this dazzling display of group coordination.

In related circumstances in a three-ring circus, this might be an extravaganza with gymnasts jumping back and forth on motorcycles or on the backs of prancing horses while above adjoining rings high flyers switched trapezes in mid-air. Here the act is performed with one bicycle, whose rider is joined by three friends, then by three more, and so on, until, before we know it, 13 people are perched on a bicycle built for one. The cycle is so layered with passengers that it is almost invisible as it glides smoothly around the ring.