The Chinese have designed and developed a gas-powered roller blade.
With a 25cc engine attached to the right boot along with a small fuel tank, they carry the wearer along at up to 20mph. They are controlled using a handheld throttle and can reach maximum speed within seconds. But there is no brake. The only way of stopping is a shut-off button which acts like an emergency stop, throwing the skater forward at speed. If they were legal they would be classed as a motorised vehicle and the user would need a driving licence, insurance and L-plates [plates on skates? -Edit.].
It sounds like the perfect black market gift for that special person in your life who loves danger but has already been to a Thai cathouse and who wants to look like a pussy but already has a Vespa. And look! It's already available in Florida! Thanks Craigslist!
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Craigslist is also good for looking at pictures of prostitutes while bored at work.
All the one legged people in the world now have a reliable mode of transportation.
Pretty God damn lazy! I need a pair….
Really hot women rollerblade up and down the Chicago Lakeshore ALL THE TIME. If that's gay, I may just have to sign up.
Didn't they already do this in Jackass? Damn Chinese always with the secret stealing.
The Polish are hard at work on solar-powered ice skates.
The perfect gift for the man that needs to get to "The Toolbox" fast.
You know the worst part about owning gas powered rollerblades?
Explaining to your mechanic that you're gay.
i very well might stab the first person i see wearing a pair of these on southbeach
no brakes? Did the grenades with no pins cost too much to mass produce?
@ Punch… man, if you didn't do it, you know i would. haha.
@Swany: By "all the time" you are of course referring to the ten blessed weeks between June 15 -August 30, the only time of year when Chicago women aren't wearing bulky sweaters and moon boots.
Someone near a kid with a camera and you-tube know how needs to get XXXXXtreme on these things about 3 days ago. Its disapointing when you find out about something like this through an actual report instead of some idiot in a slipknot t-shirt and a bowl cut racking his retarded ass out on a 20 second clip played at varying speed.
Pretty much, but that is one glorious run. What other time would I have been talking about? Blades don't work very well in the rain I wouldn't imagine, that is unless God in the rollerblade world is named Jones.
These things will make you think you're cool for little while but you will feel like a homo again in about an hour.
Great, just what the world needs…Gas Powered Homosexuals.
Gas Powered Homosexuals? I thought that's what the segue cops were.
@TEXAS & @swanychitown: It makes their journey to hell that much faster.
/Evangelical Bullshit
"Gas Powered Homosexuals."
Aren't they playing Bowery Ball Room next week?
It makes me feel good knowing I live an hour from someone who owns gas powered roller blades.
It makes me feel good knowing I live over a thousand miles from someone who owns gas powered roller blades.
It makes me laugh thinking about how someone actually was bored enough to create this prototypical "high idea"
Oooh, Asians. How will the wow us next? I propose a game show with contestants fighting aligators for the cash prize of 20 bucks and a few rolls of gause.
Gas Powered Homosexuals is a new FOX drama brought to you by the people that created Police Cops.
Can't the Chinese just get back to killing us with lead-painted toys and antifreeze-laced toothpaste?
Wiggum: Fair enough. But the owner is in more hot water than…
Lou: A Japanese tea bag?
Wiggum: Why don't you lay off the Asians, Lou?
Darwin called and he's very happy. He loves how the ATV culls the herd but was concerned there was a certain stratum of moron it wasn't reaching. Problem solved!