A French man by the name of Francois Gissy did what many of us wish we could have done with our trikes when we were young. Using a rocket built by the Swiss company Exotic Thermo Engineering, Gissy propelled himself on a bike down an empty track, reaching a top speed of 263 kilometers per hour (~163 MPH).
His hydrogen peroxide-filled rocket on a bike toppled the previous record by about 20 kilometers per hour (~12 MPH), but as far as going fast on a bicycle goes the record still belongs to Fred Rompelberg.
