diff --git a/reqwest-retry/src/middleware.rs b/reqwest-retry/src/middleware.rs
index d4d5ff2..4f1151a 100644
--- a/reqwest-retry/src/middleware.rs
+++ b/reqwest-retry/src/middleware.rs
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ use reqwest_middleware::{Error, Middleware, Next, Result};
 use retry_policies::RetryPolicy;
 use task_local_extensions::Extensions;
 
-/// We limit the number of retries to a maximum of `10` to avoid stack-overflow issues due to the recursion.
-static MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_RETRIES: u32 = 10;
-
 /// `RetryTransientMiddleware` offers retry logic for requests that fail in a transient manner
 /// and can be safely executed again.
 ///
@@ -102,14 +99,11 @@ impl<T: RetryPolicy + Send + Sync> RetryTransientMiddleware<T> {
             // We classify the response which will return None if not
             // errors were returned.
             break match Retryable::from_reqwest_response(&result) {
-                Some(retryable)
-                    if retryable == Retryable::Transient
-                        && n_past_retries < MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_RETRIES =>
-                {
+                Some(Retryable::Transient) => {
                     // If the response failed and the error type was transient
                     // we can safely try to retry the request.
-                    let retry_decicion = self.retry_policy.should_retry(n_past_retries);
-                    if let retry_policies::RetryDecision::Retry { execute_after } = retry_decicion {
+                    let retry_decision = self.retry_policy.should_retry(n_past_retries);
+                    if let retry_policies::RetryDecision::Retry { execute_after } = retry_decision {
                         let duration = (execute_after - Utc::now())
                             .to_std()
                             .map_err(Error::middleware)?;
diff --git a/reqwest-retry/tests/all/retry.rs b/reqwest-retry/tests/all/retry.rs
index 3d18cdb..75bda70 100644
--- a/reqwest-retry/tests/all/retry.rs
+++ b/reqwest-retry/tests/all/retry.rs
@@ -151,17 +151,6 @@ assert_retry_succeeds!(429, StatusCode::OK);
 assert_no_retry!(431, StatusCode::REQUEST_HEADER_FIELDS_TOO_LARGE);
 assert_no_retry!(451, StatusCode::UNAVAILABLE_FOR_LEGAL_REASONS);
 
-// We assert that we cap retries at 10, which means that we will
-// get 11 calls to the RetryResponder.
-assert_retry_succeeds_inner!(
-    500,
-    assert_maximum_retries_is_not_exceeded,
-    StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
-    100,
-    11,
-    RetryResponder::new(100_u32, 500)
-);
-
 pub struct RetryTimeoutResponder(Arc<AtomicU32>, u32, std::time::Duration);
 
 impl RetryTimeoutResponder {