Cycling - On Water!! (video)

[trex]

find a lake with a pontoon and a promenade then wait for the rainy season?

 

[Deleted member 4366]

find a lake with a pontoon and a promenade then wait for the rainy season?

The trouble is you'd need one with a slalom pontoon, and I thought the whole idea of pontoons is that they go up and down with the water.

 

[trex]

it could have a large fixed platform, the kind of place for fishing. I wonder where this lake/pond is.

 

[Kenny]

Maybe I'm wrong but it looks a bit "Magician Impossible" to me.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

another thing: The start and finish points are the same. When he starts, he goes off horizontally. If you stop the video just before he sinks. You can see to the bottom of the lake, and there's no structure within 10 feet of the landing stage from where he took off. I think you need a new theory. What about: He's suspended by a cord from a big crane that's outside the camera range; or he's wearing iron underpants and there's a big magnet holding him up; or better still, he got abducted by aliens, who wanted his seed. They were so grateful when they got it that they gave him an anti-gravity device as a present. Now he's using it to make a living by conning people into donating to his fake water-bike business.

 

[peerjay56]

Instead of theorising, go out and try it at any speed.
For the doubters, look at this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZITueUW9Rk

It's not just me theorising. You are, in your original post:

I just noticed, the steering goes the wrong way. It needs one of those mechanisms that reverses the handlebar rotation to make it more natural - like on those bikes they have at shows that you can't ride.

However - whatever. Life's too short...

 

[Scimitar]

You don't need a very big hydrofoil


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW_UfYGO3Kg

That's impressive enough, although considerably faster; but that lake one is as fishy as hell, pun intended.