ASSOCIATED MOUNTAIN BIKE PRESS: “Prank Sparks Worldwide Interest in Innovative Magnetic Suspension”

Alert readers will already have discovered for themselves that the story about the Specialized Venom line is an April Fool's type prank. Specialized manufactures some of the world's best mountain bikes, but it has no plans to produce futuristic bicycles of this kind.

Verdra H. Ciretop first wrote the report about the Venom Line as a prank for half a dozen friends in November of 2004. If you read the article closely, you will notice several obvious clues that it was a hoax.”

Hosed. Damn. I was looking forward to riding one of these. Even if I couldn’t steer it.

Now this invisible paint he writes about, *that* sounds like it has promise.