Colin Furze

Colin Peter Furze (born 14 October 1979) is a British YouTube personality, stuntman, inventor, and filmmaker from Stamford, Lincolnshire, England.

Furze left school to become a plumber, a trade which he pursued until joining the Sky1 programme Gadget Geeks. Furze has used his plumbing and engineering experience to build many unconventional contraptions, including a hoverbike, a wall of death, a jet-powered motorcycle made with pulsejet engines, and the world's fastest mobility scooter, pram, and dodgem.

Certain projects he has undertaken have been funded by television and video game franchises for promotion, including a spring-loaded hidden blade and grappling hook from the Assassin's Creed franchise, an artificial-turf-covered BMW E30 containing a hot tub and barbecue grill, and a bunker underneath his back garden to promote Sky1's television series You, Me and the Apocalypse. He celebrates reaching YouTube subscriber milestones by staging extravagant firework stunts that get more extravagant for each milestone reached.

Furze has said that he attended Malcolm Sargent Primary School as a child until he entered secondary school.

By then, he had already begun making underground dens and a few tree houses.

He became a plumber after leaving school at 16, which allowed him to focus on creating tools, gadgets, and other engineering inventions.

Shortly after the death of his father, he discovered the video-sharing website YouTube, on which he shared his inventions beginning with his wall of death ramp in 2007.

He and his girlfriend, Charlotte, have two children.

Furze's many contraptions are publicised on his YouTube channel.

On 24 October 2008, Furze revealed a 14.26 m motorbike that he had built to break the world record of the longest motorcycle.

This was done by attaching beams in place of the back.

He completed the record by riding it a minimum of 100 m.

On 13 March 2010, he uploaded a video of his converted scooter, incorporating a flame thrower that could shoot flames up to 15 ft in the air.

On 25 March 2010, Furze was arrested by Lincolnshire Police, for possessing an object converted into a firearm (in UK law, a flame thrower is a type of firearm).

He was released on bail without charge the next day.

This was Furze's third attempt at producing such a device, as the first did not ignite and the second burst into flames.

On 14 October 2010, it was announced that Furze had modified a mobility scooter to give it the ability to reach 71 mph in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records.

It took him nearly three months to build and has a 125 cc motocross engine.

On 10 October 2012, Furze posted a video showing a pram fitted with an engine which, if it travelled over 30 mph, would make it the world's fastest pram.

He succeeded in breaking the world record by achieving 53.46 mph. The pram was featured in the October 2013 copy of Popular Science Magazine, in which Furze was interviewed about his reasons for having modified the pram.

On 5 May 2014, Furze posted a video to kick off his 3-week long X-Men characters special by designing a set of realistic Wolverine claws based on a pneumatic system.

Within its first week it had received over three million views.

On 23 October 2015, Furze released a video showing off the start of a new multi-part build, in which he would construct a Hidden Blade to promote the new Ubisoft game, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. Furze went on to make the Hidden Blade, a spring-loaded concealed blade that activates at the flick of the wrist with the help of a ring-triggered wheel mechanism, a rope launcher and a winch device, all built onto a frame that fit his wrist.

In November 2015, Furze constructed an underground bomb shelter beneath his garden, as part of a request by Sky1 to promote the series You, Me and the Apocalypse. The bunker contains a corridor and a large main room, as well as a fully functional air filtration system and has an entrance shaft concealed by a garden shed.

In 2016, Furze created a "hoverbike" using two paramotors.

Furze has completed three Star Wars themed challenges in partnership with eBay.

In 2016, he completed a giant AT-AT garden playhouse, followed by a full size Kylo Ren Tie Silencer in 2017.

In May of 2018, Furze completed a working life-size Hulk buster in partnership with eBay, which is where he gained the parts to make it from.

He also worked with YouTuber James Bruton, who made the control panel to operate the machine.

In 2019, he completed a moving Landspeeder from Star Wars A New Hope.

The vehicle was auctioned off on eBay, with all of the funds going to BBC Children in Need.

In December 2020, he created a 14-metre-high trebuchet capable of throwing a washing machine.

In March 2022, he announced the completion of a tunnel that links his house and his workshop.

Lined with metal sheets and concrete, it took him three years to construct.

Extensions towards the bunker and the driveway are planned next.

In April 2023, Colin constructed a machine that he said made him “weightless”.

It worked by having a pivot 3 metres in the air with a 7.5-metre extendable arm and seat on one side, and a 1 tonne concrete block as a counterweight on the other.

This allowed him to jump higher, as the counterweight almost balances his weight.

The invention was sponsored by Warframe.

His main YouTube channel has 12.7 million subscribers, while his second channel 2 much Colin Furze has 1,040,000 subscribers as of 29 February 2024.