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Monday, November 12, 2007

Vroooom!

A few weeks ago, we watched in disbelief as a couple of bay-area nitwits tricked us into believing they'd built a working rocketbike. They even hoodwinked Wired magazine into believing this was an actual "bike hack."

Today, though, we have real evidence of a for-real rocketbike, built by -- who else?-- an inegenious Swiss man.

This violates our longstanding -- and rarely transgressed -- commitment to not post motorcycle videos.

But HELL'S BELLS, it's a ROCKETBIKE!





You'll note the speed this gentleman achieves, and compare it with his German snow-biking colleague who now owns the gravity-only land speed record.

I'm switching my order to Boys Life classifieds. I now longer want a jet pack or a hovercraft.

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