BOND bike boasts ejector seat and flame thrower
With the next James Bond film canned owing to a lack of cash, a new bicycle equipped with flame-thrower and ejector seat could be ideal way for a cash-strapped 007 to get to work.
News Archives - September 2010
Pedal-powered plane flaps its wings like a bird
A pedal-powered ornithopter is the most beautiful, environmentally benign, but physically demanding way to travel by air.
‘Stringbike’ wire replaces the bicycle chain
The fact that the bicycle has remained largely unchanged for one hundred years does not deter designers from trying to improve on it. A team of Hungarian engineers this week unveiled a new design of wire drive which they claim is a more efficient and clean alternative to a bicycle chain.
Kelly Brook’s Skyride tricycle is stolen
The old-fashioned trike ridden by Kelly Brook to publicise the skyride has been stolen.
Electric car races electric motorcycle
If it is true that technology developed for the race track filters its way to the cars we see on the road, then a recent ‘race’ between a Citroën’s Survolt concept supercar and an Agni Z2 electric sports motorcycle may be a sneak preview of the showroom of the not-too-distant future.