Mar 13 2009People Still Pogo?: The Flybar Pogo Stick
Sorry for the delay folks, I just got back from the doctor for a checkup. Yeah, and you know that whole 'turn your head and cough bit'? Well, the doctor didn't properly anticipate the weight of my nuts and broke his wrist. True story. Anyway, the Flybar is a ridiculously stupid looking pogo stick that allegedly bounces higher than a regular one.
It does this using some seriously strong elastic bands known as rubber thrusters that increase the maximum bounce height to a whopping seven feet six inches. You can snag a Flybar of your own for a whopping $320.
Pfft, forget the Flybar -- I've got four-and-one-quarter inches of rubber thruster for you right here. *squeak squeak squeak* Anybody?
Flybar is one seriously juiced up pogo stick [dvice]
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Reader Comments
1. Delsolracing - March 13, 2009 4:12 PM
First
2. Andrew - March 13, 2009 4:13 PM
i want one
3. RideNsMile - March 13, 2009 4:17 PM
what a pogo stick or gws junk?
4. Pat - March 13, 2009 4:21 PM
Rubber thrusters, eh? Is that a scientific term?
5. call me old fashioned... - March 13, 2009 4:22 PM
is it just me or did geekologie get a new blog manager? this one sux
6. Elmo - March 13, 2009 4:25 PM
Poor GW, trying to impress us all the time...
7. Hunter - March 13, 2009 4:26 PM
I never thought I'd be saying this anytime soon, but I think we need Daisy for this one...
8. Izzy - March 13, 2009 4:31 PM
My friend has one of those pogos. It was pretty damn ridiculous, I remember dubbing it the 'Man-cannon"...
9. Milkman - March 13, 2009 4:35 PM
I've got a pack of 20 rubber thrusters, and they're ribbed for her pleasure with tingly sensatation lube.
Too bad for her I'm a selfish pr*ck, and turn the condoms inside out. Now they're ribbed for mine and she gets the shaft...
10. I found daisy!! - March 13, 2009 4:48 PM
http://change.dossergame.co.uk/change_please/2886984
amazingly she's a girl, sadly, she's kinda cute.
11. I found daisy!! - March 13, 2009 4:49 PM
oops sorry this one's better
http://change.dossergame.co.uk/change_please/7203672/
12. naas - March 13, 2009 5:09 PM
The flamboyancy is disturbing & the cutoff gloves are hilarious. That kid looks like an emo breakdancer stuck in the 80s
13. naas - March 13, 2009 5:09 PM
...there should be a caption above him that says 'heeeeeeeeyyy'
14. LSDiesel - March 13, 2009 5:10 PM
The bottom of his little jump stick is going to break the sun-roof...
15. Zee Brat - March 13, 2009 5:39 PM
Found a video of some kids using this thing on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJoDXgvdaiM
16. naas - March 13, 2009 5:45 PM
@15 thanks for the link. The airwalks & saranwraps were the only impressive tricks on these things imo. The look pretty silly bouncing around otherwise, almost as bad as people on segways
17. Zee Brat - March 13, 2009 6:19 PM
I bet it's fun though. Stupid looking, but fun.
18. Darth - March 13, 2009 7:52 PM
That looks awesome! Great workout too!
19. Atlanta Grape Lady - March 13, 2009 7:54 PM
Stop. oh oh oh ooooooooooooh ohh oooooh oh ooh ooooooooooooooh
ow ow ow ooooooooh stop oh stop ooh ooooooooh oh oh oooooooooh
I can't breathe ohhhh stop uh uh ooooooooooooooh
20. Graf Zeppelin - March 13, 2009 8:48 PM
do I really have to say it? PHOTOPSHPPPPED OOOWWWWNND SO MUCXH!
21. Daisy - March 13, 2009 11:40 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where MAxs science project was a formula for invisibility. He took it and it made him invisible and he snuck into the girls locker room. Then it wore off and he stole some clothes, and got caught. He ended up going to the school shrink.
22. Quiver Tips - March 13, 2009 11:57 PM
For a failed 'emo' kid he's got some balls...I mean he had to at least question whether or not he'd successfully clear the car. He either A.) cleared it and his beanie wearing brothers ran up and gave him one of those borderline homosexual high fives or B.) He clipped that shit and got a real good taste of what rubber thrusters feel like.
23. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 14, 2009 4:16 AM
Pogo sticks? Really? This feels just like when they try to bring the yo-yo back every ten years or so...
24. no one in particular, - March 14, 2009 7:28 AM
this picture is fake. you can tell by the lighting.
25. Lily - March 14, 2009 12:29 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsaAgOp0pZI
why better pogo stick
26. Brandt Cooley - March 14, 2009 12:52 PM
And people be injured.
27. Sal - March 14, 2009 8:52 PM
I thought it was a new Harry Potter Broom! A fanboy can still dream! :)
28. hollywood_hillbilly - March 14, 2009 9:15 PM
WTF! That is the gayest thing since rollerblades! If I see you on one of these you better hope it jump higher than my F-150.
29. Nintendoll - March 15, 2009 9:53 PM
HOLY CRAP! It has to be awesome because they used the word "whopping" TWICE!
30. Mark Aldridge - March 17, 2009 8:28 AM
it's not photoshopped. I genuinely did it. The photographer had two infra red lights on either side of me which is why the lighting is different. If you look careful, my reflection is on the car bonnet.
31. Andy - March 20, 2009 6:16 AM
Thats actually right outside where i live! I'm not going to be happy the day i come home to find a hooligan shapped dent in my car roof!
32. Andy - March 20, 2009 6:19 AM
but i shoudl say, pretty cool all the same...