You may recall (although I won’t fault you if you don’t) engineer James Bruton previously building an omnidirectional motorbike on two balls. But do you know what’s better than two balls? “Three balls?” Agreed, but James decided to go the less is more route anyways and made an omnidirectional motorball
Because bigger is (sometimes but not always) better, this is a video of Youtuber Seth of Berm Peak test riding the largest mountain bike made by DirtySixer, an oversized unit with 36″ wheels ($2,999, also available as an electric version for $8,999). DirtySixer makes extra large bikes for extra large
Because what good will future robots be if we can’t ride them into battle against other robots, Kawasaki has released a video of its conceptual hydrogen-electric CORLEO. CORLEO is a large quadruped robot that could be ridden by one or two people like a giant dire wolf. It looks like
Because who hasn’t dreamed of piloting their own AT-AT walker through the side of a neighbor’s house, this is a video of engineer James Bruton constructing his own roughly 7-foot tall rideable AT-AT. It moves at a snail’s pace (even slower than in the movies), but I would still proudly
This is an Instagram video of a man constructing a “quick and easy” carnival style spinning ride in his backyard using a tree and some lumber (which was also once trees). The ride features seating for four, and is powered by spinning the riders around the tree to build tension
Because dream it and you can achieve it (possibly realizing later it wasn’t the stroke of genius you originally thought it was), Italian biomedical technician and artist Alessandro Tappo spends his free time building unusual bicycles (I nap and play video games). This is an example of one such bike,
This is a video of a family attempting to exit the Gully Washer at Six Flags Fiesta Texas after their raft got held up due to a ride malfunction. “I ain’t waitin’ for this $hit,” I imagine one idiot exclaiming before leaping from the ride against the ride workers’ requests.
Because dream it and you can achieve it, a team from the Netherlands has successfully built and ridden the world’s longest bike, measuring 55.16 meters (180-feet, 11-inches) in length (recently: the world’s tallest bike). The group was “inspired by a longstanding interest in Guinness World Records and a desire to