Rocket powered bicycle

[dragon]

Yes I said bicycle. Shame I can't watch the video here at work. I'll have to check it out afterwards.

Which is the more amazing feat: Switzerland's Francois Gissy leaving a Ferrari 430 Scuderia sitting still at the dragstrip as he recorded 3.1gs of inline acceleration on his way to a top speed of 207 mph, or that he did this on a BICYCLE? That bicycle, incidentally, was equipped with a rocket engine supplying 4.2 kN (944 pounds) of thrust.

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Gissy hit that 207-mph mark in just 4.8 seconds, at the 300-meter mark of the run. His quarter-mile time was a scant 6.8 seconds. If he has his way, Gissy could turn the 23-day Tour de France into a friendly afternoon of rocket-propelled insanity. Note that the actual record run was solo. The face-off against the Ferrari appeared to be for giggles. It was still the most comprehensive ass-kicking ever.

As insane as this all is—and as the video demonstrates, it is insane—Gissy plans to outdo it in 2015 with a new "monster bicycle" dubbed the Spine Crusher. We'll be watching.

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[Elheru Aran]

That kind of thing happens every now and then. I remember seeing a video of someone putting a Tomahawk missile jet engine into a VW Beetle. Fun times.

[dragon]

Yeah but there's a lot more stability in a car over a bicycle

[Jaepheth]

...Gissy could turn the 23-day Tour de France into a friendly afternoon of rocket-propelled insanity..

Unless the Tour de France route has any turns.

[Irbis]

Unless the Tour de France route has any turns.

Turns?

[Irbis]

Also, found the page I remembered from before - this is not new. NAZI SCIENCE was first, 85 years ago