lol.....oh my god what has made my night,thankyou

Lesse, the fastest I have ever gotten a bicycle on a flat stretch is 48mph. I was pulled over for speeding by a cop at that point, since it was a 35mph zone. Yeah, you are Loballing it. A hose and spring 30-35mph.

48 on flat ground? Jeez!

It was a 21 speed bike and I used to have tons of power in my legs. Stretched more than one set of bike chains.

I didn't know bike chains could stretch. That explains a lot of chain issues I had when I used to ride a bike. :P

please forgive me for asking this but... did he give you a citation?

He did. I took it to court and just judge laughed and dismissed it. A Bicycle IS a vehicle that was being operated on a public road and should follow the same rules.

I rather wonder if he is allowed to give him a speeding ticket, since it is the horse which was driving more then 70 mph. He was riding the horse, not the bike.

wow this would be great in some kind of crazy steam-punk setting, I think it's a cool idea!

today I learned:

horses on bike wheels > honda civics

That'd have to be one sad Civic if it can't break 70 mph. Even the lowly single-point injection models could break 90.

Altho you'd have to have the bike's wheels and such geared like those older style bikes that if you jam the pedals even slightly backward, it acts as a brake and stops the wheels from turning..

That's the only way I could easily see a horse's momentum stopping even halfway decently when coming to lights or such.. and you'd SURE AS HECK cause drivers to be looking as you rode bye.. *giggles*

As per Back to the Future part 3, a good horse team can get upwards of 33-35 miles per hour, so at top speed a horse bicycle might be capable of 90-120mph provided that aerodynamics don't start fighting forward momentum until after those speeds.

LOVE BTTF! :D was going to make the reference until i found your comment :D

There are specialty high speed bikes that have gotten humans up to 80 mph, I can only imagine what they'd do if horse-powered http://www.wired.com/culture/lifest.....ikerecord_0330

that looks like something from a Doctor Seuss book

A Horse's galloping motion is not remotely the same as pedaling... so you can't use it directly as a multiplier on top speed... but assuming a horse who can figure out how to use the silly thing, you could probably move at a good clip. :)

My father used to try to convince his grade 5 and 6 students that farmers once shod their horses with skate-bladed shoes in the winter. On a related note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmsRcsl_xA

Because it's Friday, that's why!

Patent it!

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How, by all the gods, do you get the horse into that thing?

Very patiently, with a trusting horse.

Carefully, and with plenty of distraction. >.>

this is laugh out loud funny, thanks

A wonderfully humorous notion, but how exactly would one go about turning the "horse bicycle"?

That's what the gimmick around it's neck is for - they're "handlebars" that turn with the horse's head.

Ingenious!

Actually, in an old episode of The New Scientist, their quasi-serious scientist Daedalus, suggested the Third World should develop ax ox-powered bicycle as a means of speeding up the draft-animal drawn vehicle approach, and showed something not too dissimilar to the classic treadmill, mounted on a tyred platform. No reason why you couldn't get it up to a reasonable clip, as long as you didn't frighten the horses along the way.

Mmm... My most scary event on a bicycle was when I exceeded 44 miles an hour during a storm. And I was afraid to use the brakes because the concrete bicycle lane was covered in mud form roadworks. When I got home I was colored a uniform brown from that stretch of road.