Should be Able to do 235 MPG

The Honda ANF125i Innova motorbike is a super-efficient bike to start with, but to bring it to the next level of fuel economy, it takes a certain level of ingenuity and craftsmanship, as well as a good understanding of the factors at play in how much fuel a vehicle uses. Allert Jacobs obviously has those qualities; he turned his 100+ MPG Honda (see photo of what it looks like unmodified below) into a 200+ MPG low-CD streamliner.

Honda ANF125i Innova. Not exactly same as bike below, but close.

Some Specs

The modified motorbike weights 319lbs (about 88lbs more than the standard bike). The engine is a fuel injected, four stroke, 125cc single, producing 9 hp (6.85 kW). A realistic figure of real-world MPG for the unmodified bike is around Read More… »

The Bamboo Bike Studio is run by three men in their late 20s who know a lot about bamboo and a lot about bicycles. On a cool autumn morning, two of them are out on a bamboo harvest — in a dense grove near New Brunswick, N.J.

Justin Aguinaldo and Sean Murray carry a small Japanese pull saw and a caliper to find bamboo stems that are 1 1/2 inches thick. When they find stems that are just right, they tap the bamboo to make sure it’s not too soft: “If the bamboo’s too watery, it’s not as dense and it’s not as strong,” Aguinaldo explains.

Aguinaldo makes his living as a bicycle messenger. Sean Murray is a former schoolteacher whose voice mail greeting makes note of the fact that he is now living the dream of making bikes with his friends.

Murray says he finds bamboo patches by reading online gardening forums. He says a lot of people start growing bamboo as a decorative plant — but then it gets out of hand. Read More… »