As a kid, I spent hours building with LEGOs—mostly simple stuff like houses and cars that never quite looked as cool as they did in my head. I loved it, but I could never dream of creating the kind of ...

but I recently passed by this LEGO exhibition in Hong Kong that displayed the “worlds largest brick diorama” (or so they claim). Regardless, it was impressive and quite pleasant to look at.

What do you get when you combine hundreds of kilos of spare steel, a ratty 20-year-old Yamaha R6, and almost 750 hours of hair-brained brilliance? The answer is the world’s fastest penny ...