The next time you're sideswiped by some guy delivering Chinese food on a motorized bike, call him the slowpoke he really is. After all, he can't hold a candle (especially a Roman one) to this courer:
On a track neaer Mulhouse, in eastern France, Francois Gissy rode a rocket-powered mountain bike in the slipstream of a dragster. In the process, he set a new speed record for mountain bikes--163 mph--which fell just short of the overall record of 167mph.
With his bike and white suit, he reminds me, in a way, of Evel Knievel. Evel couldn't jump the Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle that looked more like, well, a rocket. What if he'd had a mountain bike--with rockets--instead? And what if Gissy had Evel's motorcycle?
A French Evel Knievel? What an idea!
On a track neaer Mulhouse, in eastern France, Francois Gissy rode a rocket-powered mountain bike in the slipstream of a dragster. In the process, he set a new speed record for mountain bikes--163 mph--which fell just short of the overall record of 167mph.
With his bike and white suit, he reminds me, in a way, of Evel Knievel. Evel couldn't jump the Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle that looked more like, well, a rocket. What if he'd had a mountain bike--with rockets--instead? And what if Gissy had Evel's motorcycle?
A French Evel Knievel? What an idea!
