A man in Germany recently set a new Guinness World Record for engineering the world’s heaviest bike.
49-year-old Frank Dose who lives in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany built bike that weighs a massive 1 ton and it took 6 whole months to do it. The bike was engineered out of several giant piles of scrap metal and features two giant industrial fertilizer spreader tires.
Dose needed to build a fully functional bike and not just to a prototype to qualify for the Guinness record. Amidst the Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival, Dose rode his monster creation right in front of the crowd of thousands that also included official representatives from Guinness being.
Dose decided to build the bike on a dare. It took him a estimated $4,700 and six months to build the bike. Although the bike only crawled at 5 kms an hour, it did manage break the previous record of 860-kilogram set by Peeters of Belgium and his machine.
It will take The Guinness World Records few more months to make officially confirm the record, but it is likely that they will.
