Just read this on a UK BMX racing forum here

“This is an interesting idea I came up with when I was about 15. Actually I came up with two separate ideas. The first idea was based upon the ‘lift’ principle in aeroplane wings. I thought to myself, that there must be some way to channel the air into a funnel at the front of a bmx, and then somehow , make it fly out faster at the back end of the bike, thus creating some sort of natural ‘thrust’ (perhaps even with some sort of battery-operated mini-turbines in the air funnel)…. If a shape of a wing can lift a Jumbojet into the air, then…”

Why was I looking at a racing forum I hear you ask? Because Chertsey trails locals Clark and Kent are currently in Crewe building this below…