It takes a brave man to do this… Frenchman Francois Gissy has set a new land speed record of 263 km/h with this rocket-engined bicycle.
For this exercise Francois chose a rocket engine manufactured by Exotic Thermo Engineering in Switzerland. It runs on liquid hydrogen peroxide – concentrated 90 per cent. The rocket engine breaks the peroxide down at high temperatures and generates a high-pressure steam, a process that happens at 343 Celsius! Do not try this at home!
This video show a previous run at 180 km/h.
Source: Autoevolution