Awesome! The real life duct tape racer! Well done! looks fun as hell to pedal that bastard around! What a sweaty endeavor!

i drive a nissan skyline GT-R … after years of modding starting when i was 16 i now get 550HP and i have topped it at 188MPH (need a new transmission) … so if you buy one of these and invest money in it slowly you can have a nice car

@DeadlyFoez if you don’t like it DON’T FUCKING CLICK ON THE ARTICLE

HAHA ok ok i just saw the youtube video … this is just silly XD

I like the Bugatti Veyron someone made out of cigarette boxes better.

Love it! Watching him cycle (drive?) round the track looked like test drive clips on Top Gear when they slow down highspeed filming :)

Best part of the video is from 5:00-5:20 :D

love the poses, just sells the whole uberness of it all

Quietest engine ever!

Can the passenger pedal to?

although this car really needs that bumper sticker that says: “Real Bikers Pedal”

Saw this on Jalopnik last week.

Post up some useful recumbent bikes or quad-bikes please.

im laughing myself to tears, thank you very much. i fuckin want one!

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Ok, I’ve been here for a long time, and most of the stuff that people say, “that isn’t a hack!” I disagree with. However.

That isn’t a hack!

Not worthy of having it’s own post, that is. Maybe in the links.

They have done a really good job on modeling the porsche’s body,.. now if they could fibre glass that around a real car such as a cheap ford fiesta, then it’d be a pretty nice ‘kit’ for people who’d like a nice looking car.. mmm maybe lol

comments section should be disabled imho….

yeah, it would be nice to see them do a fiberglass body and a small motor (even electric)… Yes, the paper thin tires are kind of a pain, also… the sheer lack of speed… and the weird noises that are coming out of the speaker’s mouth; I’m not quite sure why he is making them — are there still countries that don’t speak english? Do we have to go to war again? Dammit!

@Wdfowty wasting all those building materials on a toy isn’t exactly what I would call “environmentally friendly”. :-P

That thing really shifts! Bling Bling me babber

“I WANT THIS. Hmm… I have 750watts of bicycle motors siting here. I must resist.” – Eric

My thoughts exactly, motor it up!!! Hell, could put four bicycle wheel motors in the thing, Uber-AWD!!!

Even one hub motor would do the trick:
http://www.electricmotorsport.com/store/ems_ev_parts_motors_evthub.php

I think the main issue is the speed – it almost seemed like he didn’t have any gears… even my bike with my unfit self could probably overtake this :/

This will never get you laid, well at least not by chicks with shaved armpits.

breathtaking. one wonders how fast the stig would get around the track in one of these. what happens if it is windy? spontaneous invention of a flying car?

@rossum: I would Love to see the stig drive this thing. And he would probably beat the real thing with the nitro milk shakes he drinks for breakfast.

Seriously though, this /is/ a hack. And one of the coolest I think I’ve seen in a while. It is obvious that a lot of work went in to constructing this vehicle. Yes, there might be some rough edges and the tape would be tacky in a production car, but come on! How many projects have you worked on looked like it was full production quality? I do not see many people complaining when folks use generic black plastic or cardboard boxes as project enclosures…

Thanks for the article, Jakob!

Hilarious. Great bike hack!

at first when i saw this, i thought it might be the worlds slowest porsche because it was made out of element #79, although it would probably have had a smoother finish. electric motors are a great idea, if you have a few $grand handy, you can really pimp it out. and lol@ Mikey, in the Samurai days, we would have given you a knife and told you to commit HerroKitteh

What if you rigged it up so four people could peddle? Complete with gears and stuff. You could really go in that thing.

From the Flickr page it looks like it is made of plastic tubing or something similar. I think Aluminum would have been too heavy.

And how could anyone ever get a TAPE job smooth over a tube skeleton without using ridiculous amounts of layers?

I’m starting a project this summer for a ford fiesta like ken blocks but I’m going to hit 40 in it at least hahaa then try and drift it with a ebrake if it’s stable enough