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Homemade Hoverbike
« on: May 01, 2016, 09:39:35 PM »
Colin Furze is nuts and a great inventor / fabricator and entertainer. A plumber by trade, without any engineering qualifications, he's made some awesome stuff, mostly in his garden shed.. the latest being a Hoverbike..

https://youtu.be/soxxPyaAT1k

This is why and how he made it...

Part 1
https://youtu.be/MQxPGOnwBGs

Part 2
https://youtu.be/iFtmrUscNqA

Part 3
https://youtu.be/1ToBgypNwL4
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Re: Homemade Hoverbike
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2016, 08:47:31 AM »
awesomely cool and entertaining!
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Re: Homemade Hoverbike
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2016, 01:12:16 PM »
Cool but I see a foot being lost in his future if he doesn't get that cowling lower.
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Re: Homemade Hoverbike
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2016, 09:34:04 AM »
there is a high tech version of "jackass" in this
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Re: Homemade Hoverbike
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2016, 11:41:37 AM »
Some really good fabrication skills. 

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Re: Homemade Hoverbike
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2016, 12:11:08 PM »
Cool but I see a foot being lost in his future if he doesn't get that cowling lower.

Yeah, he's asking for an amputation. The guards are a joke.
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