A hoverbike (or hovercycle) is a vehicle that can hover, resembling a flying motorbike, having at least two propulsive portions—one in front of and one behind the driver.

Aeronautic motors

Starting in 2014, Malloy Aeronautics has been developing a hoverbike that has experimented with quadcopter-like lift.[1] In 2015, the company announced collaboration with the United States Defense Department at the Paris Airshow.[2]

External video
World's first fully-manned hoverbike tested in Moscow on YouTube

In April 2016, British inventor Colin Furze announced he had created a hoverbike using two paramotors.[3]

The Aero-X is a hoverbike designed to carry up to two people.[4]

The Hoversurf Scorpion 3 is a hoverbike launched in 2017.[5] It is famously used by the Dubai Police Force.

The A.L.I. Technologies XTurismo was on sale in Japan from 2021, and in the United States the following year, priced at about £680,000. It requires a pilot's licence in most countries, but not in Japan. It is considered a proof of concept with 200 to be made, with a smaller version planned for 2025, at a much lower price.[6][7]

A one-person, or unmanned cargo, flying vehicle with four jet motors at the corners using artificial intelligence to maintain stability that has been described as a "flying motorbike" and named "Speeder" was under development in 2022, an idea that emerged from work with the US Navy. By early 2022^[update] several full-size prototypes had been built. Top speed was 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), and flight endurance was 60 minutes.[8]

In fiction

• This concept is commonly used in futuristic cyberpunk games such as Mass Effect 3 or Cyberpunk 2077.[9]
• In the Star Wars universe, characters use speeder bikes lifted by repulsorlift engines.
• In Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's crossover video game, heroes can use numerous types of hovercycles as mounts to increase their movement speed on the battlefield.
• In the television show Kamen Rider Revice, Kamen Rider Revi rode a hoverbike based on the A.L.I. Technologies XTurismo[7] as his main mode of transport.

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