Le Castellet, France - When it comes to pushing the limits of what is possible with a (relatively) ordinary bicycle, there is nobody in the same league as Exotic Thermo Engineering designer Arnold Neracher.
But the prize for the most gargantuan gonads in Gondwanaland has to go to rider Francois Nissy.
Because the ETE bicycle is propelled by a specially built hydrogen peroxide-fuelled rocket that delivers 4500 Newtons - the equivalent of 413kW - for about as long as it takes to whisper "Why me, Lord?" and hold on for dear life as 19 G's worth of acceleration hurls bike and rider at the horizon.
Last Friday (7 November) on the main straight of the famous Paul Ricard circuit just outside Le Castellet in the south of France, Nissy hit the red button and rode the ETE from 0-322km/h (0-200 miles per hour in the old language) in just 4.8 seconds.
DRAG RACE
That is more than 10 seconds quicker than the Hennessey Venom GT - the world's fastest production car from 0-200 - can manage.
The bicycle then went on to reach its terminal velocity of 333km/h, about 250 metres from the start line, just as the rocket ran out of fuel, and coasted the rest of the straight for a quarter-mile time of less than seven seconds.
But even Nissy is aware that video footage of the bike in action fails to convey just how explosive the power of this nickel-plated frame on wheels actually is, so he challenged the driver of a 480kW Ferrari 430 Scuderia to a drag race.
It wasn't a particularly fast run, topping out at 260km/h, but that was enough to beat the Ferrari by nearly half the length of the Paul Ricard main straight.
Andy Green, watch and learn.