Wayback Machine: Rocket Powered Bicycle
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 12.17.07
The age of the propeller plane gave way to the jet and the rocket, so it was inevitable that the elegant Aerothrust Propeller Driven Bicycle would give way to the " Rocket-Cycle Explained by Professor A. M. Low of London while Alec Jackson gets ready to take-off—along the surface, he hopes. Low has been experimenting with rockets since 1917. Four of his rocket-assisted motorcycles were demonstrated at the Wembley speedway meet." ::Modern Mechanix
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