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
Because bad ideas come in all danger levels, this is a video of professional freeride mountain biker Sam Pilgrim replacing his bike’s traditional wheels with giant circular saw blades to see how the bike rides. SPOILER: Surprisingly well. Granted, Sam is a professional cyclist and can probably handle a bike
This is a first person POV ride down the Jais Sledder desert mountain roller coaster in the United Arab Emirates. The video captures the full experience, including the single rider car’s 7-minute climb to the top, so I embedded the video to start at the actual downhill part at 7:10.