AeroVelo aims to build world's fastest bike

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Following its Sikorsky Prize-winning Atlas helicopter, Canada's AeroVelo now aims to set a new human-powered speed record during September's World Human-Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada, with a high speed bicycle named Eta. The current record stands at 83.1 mph (133.8 km/h), and was set at the event last year by a Dutch team of students with the VeloX3 bike. .. Continue Reading AeroVelo aims to build world's fastest bike

Section: Bicycles

Tags: Bikes, Human-Powered, Kickstarter, Recumbent, World Records

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