How fast can we go with a direct drive bike was the main question that Tom Donhou and his friends wanted to answer, who mounted a unique and monstrous 104-tooth chainring on the bike for the occasion. At the same time, you wonder if they might not be missing some kind of cog in their head? Hmmm, isn't that what they say about anyone who goes where no one else has gone before?
The inspiration for the venture is a manufacturer of bicycle frames Tom Donhou and the group found in To Burt Munroe, a New Zealander who in 1967 set speed record with a 950 cc engine and was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the movie The World's Fastest Indian. Just like everyone else pioneers, they themselves jumped into the unknown and just once again proved that engineering "behind the house" swarms great stories. You can see the latest one in the video above, which briefly goes something like this. V garages the guys put together a bike and in the style of speed pioneers tested what kind of speed they could develop with a bulky one crank with a gun drum profile.
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At first, they pushed the limit of the imaginable on the road, where the top speed was chased in the lee of the car, but the record, 164 km/h, with only raw human strength Tom later achieved on the rollers.
