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A UK pensioner built his own steam-powered bike

A UK pensioner has designed and built his own steam-powered bicycle that can travel at 20mph. 62-year-old Geoff Hudspith, the man behind the machine, said: "When it's underway it's surprisingly well-balanced because the weight of the boiler is balanced by the weight of the water tank on the other side at the back." The steam powers a double action single cylinder, this turns a flywheel, which powers a chain on the front wheel. The bike has a range of around ten miles on one tank of water. Geoff has turned down several offers to buy it, even for high sums of money. "I even had a bloke in Denmark, some years ago now, who was so taken with it he wanted to swap a house for it," Hudspith recalls. "And well, I just thought; 'Well, you know, is this bloke serious or what?' You know. I suppose I should have taken the house and just made another steam bike." ---------------------------------------­­­­--------- Follow BI UK on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1Nz3jG3 Follow BI UK On Facebook: http://bit.ly/1VWDkiy Read more: http://uk.businessinsider.com/?IR=C ---------------------------------------­­­­--------- Business Insider UK is the largest business news site for British readers and viewers in the UK. Our mission: to tell you all you need to know about the big world around you. The BI UK Video team focuses on business, technology, strategy, and culture with an emphasis on unique storytelling and data that appeals to the next generation of leaders – the digital generation.