{"id":79545,"date":"2013-05-21T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79545"},"modified":"2013-05-21T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:11:05","slug":"cycling-video-frenchman-sets-speed-record-on-rocket-bicycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79545","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Video &#8211; Frenchman sets speed record on rocket bicycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On an abandoned runway in France, Frenchman Francois Gissy set a world speed record Sunday by traveling 163.4 mph on a rocket-powered bicycle fueled by hydrogen peroxide, or the same ingredient used to bleach hair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gissy broke the old mark of 150.4 mph set in 2002. He used a specialized bike produced by Swiss company Exotic Thermo Engineering, which apparently couldn\u2019t afford better video equipment to capture the record-setting moment. Nevertheless, one gets a\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/outdoor\/excursions\/post\/frenchman-sets-speed-record-on-bike-propelled-by-ingredient-used-to-dye-hair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oqocUxVDSXE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an abandoned runway in France, Frenchman Francois Gissy set a world speed record Sunday by traveling 163.4 mph on a rocket-powered bicycle fueled by hydrogen peroxide, or the same ingredient used to bleach hair. Gissy broke the old mark of 150.4 mph set in 2002. He used a specialized bike produced by Swiss company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79546,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79545\/revisions\/79546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}