When people ramble about the "soullessness" of modern carbon bikes—you can generally find them sitting somewhere and not riding—they're talking about an amorphous feeling imbued into good old-fashioned hand-built bikes made from tubes, like your dad made 'em. Largely it's goofballery—the same whining about innovation exists in surfing, auto racing, and really every sport or activity that has any history—but then you see something like the above video and you think "Damn, I wonder how much a welder costs."The video follows Tom Donhou, a bike builder based in the UK who makes some rather drool-worthy rides. As he tells the story, he was inspired by salt flat racing and especially motor-paced bicycle racing, in which a rider follows in a car's slipstream to reach higher speeds. In 1995, Dutch cyclist Fred Rompelberg set the current high water mark of more than 167 mph, done by following a dragster at Bonneville.While Rompelberg obviously had very specialized equipment—a dragster, for one, and a rather ungainly-looking custom bike—Donhou wanted to see what how fast he could go by using a bike of his own design, and by following his own old Ford Zephyr. The Donhou site has a nice overview of the bike, but suffice to say that his peak of 80 mph was pretty impressive. (He later hit 102 mph on rollers.)The video is a bit heavy on the slow-mo and panning shots of a landing strip, but the craftsmanship is wonderful to watch. And really, it's got me envious: When just about everything I own nowadays was acquired by obsessively reading reviews online and eventually having it mailed to my apartment, building something from scratch with only an idea of what I'm aiming to do is a rather tantalizing thought.@derektmead