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THE ROCKETMAN’S GARAGE

Ky Michaelson, a.k.a. The Rocketman, hails destroying his book), and it was this ability to from an illustrious line of makers. On his family dazzle with his creations that sent him on a life-tree can be found inventors of the motorcycle long quest to build more impressive machines. transmission and clutch, the rotary lawn-mower Michaelson is forever hungry for power and blade, the flip-top aspirin box, and the oxygen speed. In his Gyro Gearloose world, he’s never mask as used in commercial aviation. met a moving vehicle he didn’t think would go

As a child dealing with dyslexia, Michaelson better with a big-ass rocket engine bolted to struggled in school, but discovered a natural its backside. And, at this point, there aren’t affinity for building things. One day in math too many things he hasn’t “rocketized,” from class his teacher discovered that he’d hollowed motorcycles and go-karts to tricycles and kiddie out his textbook and built a crystal set inside scooters. And then there are the rocket-powered of it (the earpiece wire was concealed through toilets and barstools. See more of Rocketman’s his shirt sleeve). She was awestruck by his crazed creations at the-rocketman.com. ingenuity (in addition to being pissed at him for —Gareth Branwyn

Photograph by Chad Holder

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