Great edit from the Schwalbe 2011 British 4X series final from Redhill Extreme, Gloucestershire.
A Suffolk student is hoping his sailing bike invention, which began as an A-level project, is going to become big business.
A Dutch firm also developing a sailing bike was so impressed with Ned Aufenast’s prototype that they are working together on a machine which costs £3,000.
A black ribbon curlicues into the distance, cutting a meandering but distinct line through the greenscape. Immediately in front of me, the blacktop wends left, then left again before hightailing it steeply downhill to the right. I lower into the drops of the bike’s handlebars, tuck my knees to my chest, lean into the downturn of California’s Highway 49, and go.
Air as hot as the inside of a sauna whizzes past my ear. Roadside trees blur into a high-speed, green slurry. Carbon fiber buzzes ever so slightly, a sensation that is more felt than heard, as it absorbs the road. My skinny tires roll over  … More