{"id":10361,"date":"2013-05-22T18:48:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2013-05-22T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:48:50","slug":"not-your-bog-standard-loo-plumber-builds-worlds-fastest-toilet-which-can-travel-up-to-55mph-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=10361","title":{"rendered":"Not your bog standard loo: Plumber builds world&#8217;s fastest toilet which can travel up to 55mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10352\" alt=\"t2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/t2-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Finding yourself stuck in traffic and needing a toilet break can be an unpleasant experience.<\/p>\n<p>A plumber has built the world&#8217;s fastest fully-functioning toilet which has a powerful 140cc motorbike engine hidden under the seat and four gears.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Furze, 33, spent a month building the breakneck bog which is even filled with water so it can be flushed using a button on the handle bars.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a clip so he can read the newspaper while he zooms along.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Furze, who is often called out to fix and install toilets, decided to build the super loo as a bit of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Furze has managed to get the toilet to travel at an amazing 55mph but believes it will be able to go even faster along a smooth track and may even reach 60mph.<\/p>\n<p>The previous fastest toilet was the Bog Standard, which could travel at 42.25mph and was presented on the set of Lo Show Dei Record in Milan, Italy in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding yourself stuck in traffic and needing a toilet break can be an unpleasant experience&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}