Tricycle: “Three-wheeled vehicle” or “three-wheeled children's toy that moves by the action of pedals”. These are the two descriptions that we find of the word “tricycle” when we turn to the RAE. We all know what a tricycle is, and it is something that has never been related to high speeds or heart attack experiences. Until now.
If you use tricycle and François Gissy in the same sentence everything changes; in fact, everything changes when this person takes action. This French man is known to have piloted bikes at infarct speeds. In 2013 he had a serious accident, hitting the asphalt at 285 km / h. Months later he tried again and set a world record with a top speed of 333 km/h. He has now climbed on a tricycle for get to 261 km/h. ¡Watch the video!
If you have seen the video in full, you will have already realized that this homemade tricycle and more reinforced than the one you had when you were 4 years old does not work based on pedaling. It also doesn't use heat engines or anything similar. just have a reservoir and rainwater. It may seem that we are joking, but no, today is far from the day of the Holy Innocents.
The deposit that we see, on which by the way François Gissy is sitting, houses 130 liters of pressurized rainwater. It is precisely the pressure that allows this tricycle to come out like a real bullet. Keep in mind that it is about 6.000 psi, that is, something more than 400 bars depression. To put you in situation, the wheels of your car usually go to little more than 2 bars.
Seeing the figures that affirm us, we cannot get out of our astonishment. The French engineer has accelerated from 0 to 100 km/h in just 0,55 seconds, for which the forces he had to endure must have been brutal. A Formula 1 or MotoGP car takes about 2 seconds to reach that speed from a standstill. few moments later reached 261 km / h, at which point the tank lost pressure and stopped gaining speed.