This is just an idea to bring a few more spectators out to the track. ;)


"In Germany in the 1920s and 1930s there was great interest in all kinds of
rocket-propelled vehicles; cars, aeroplanes, boats, motorcyles and
ice-skimmers. However, one of the strangest and least promising applications
of rocket propulsion must be the bicycle.


"In March 1931 Herr Richter attached twelve solid-fuel rockets to his
bicycle, then made a run down the Avus race track in Berlin. "

Photos and more details at

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/rocketbicycle/rocketbicycle.
htm





Todd Scott







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