Description

Here's a unique dragster bicycle made by David Sprecher. Harry saw a picture of a pedal powered dragster on Facebook in 2021. He talked to David about building one and in late 2022, early 2023, David did build one. Harry purchased it from David in August 2023. The tub or seat is made from an old wheelbarrow.

This dragster is powered by 3 separate chains. Here are some pictures of what we did.

Awards
2025
Post on Hot Rod Wagons, Pedal Cars and Stroller received over 5,700 likes.

Here's the Facebook post

Here are a few other pedal powered dragsters.



This vehicle is designed in styling with the dragsters of the 1950s and 1960s. The front-engine dragster is a type of racing car purposely built for drag racing. Commonly known as a "rail", "digger", or "slingshot", it is now considered obsolete, and is used only in nostalgia drag racing. The front-engine dragster was an evolution from earlier front-engine hot rods and initially was a car from which all non-essential parts, including the body, had been removed to reduce weight, making the earliest dragsters essentially a production car chassis with a "souped-up" engine. These early dragsters were nicknamed "rails," due to the frame's longitudinal members (rails) being exposed to view.

Here is a short video of it in action before we put the outriggers on it.



Here is some video of it with the outriggers on it. It is very unstable without them.