If you assume the same is possible for animals, this means that a cheetah could reach speeds around 175 mph on a bike. Obviously, in the interests of fairness, you would have to give bikes to gazelles and springbok and such like too, but I think you'll agree that this idea could bring back a lot of interest to these now frequently seen natural contests.
Of course, there would need to be a period where the animals were taught to ride the specially designed bikes, probably using stabilisers to begin with. Then after a couple of months, the daddy animal could take off the stabilisers and hold on to the back of the bike to begin with, then keep saying to their cub or fawn 'I won't let go' and 'it's all right, I've got you' even though they had already let go several seconds before. Once the animals have mastered the basic riding, the predators will probably need some training from a stunt man in order to perfect the skill of leaping from the moving bike and onto their poor unfortunate brown-eyed prey.
I've contacted Sir David Attenbrough but as yet have had no reply. He's probably mucking about with his gorilla mates again and not answering his e-mails. If he doesn't go for it, then maybe it will work for horse and greyhound racing instead.
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