When an email landed informing us that a HoverBike will be launching soon on Kickstarter, we got all excited here at road.cc. A bike, that hovers, and which you can buy? We’re in.

Except having seen it, we’re out … proving the old maxim that, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Coming from Florida and launching on Kickstarter next month, it has a set of handlebars, a pair of wheels, a saddle, a frame … and there, the resemblance to a bicycle ends.

What you do is take one of those Hoverboards that were all the rage at Christmas a couple of years ago – assuming it wasn’t a cheapo version that burnt  your house down while charging, or didn’t get confiscated by a PCSO because you were riding it on the pavement – strap it to the front and let it tow you along.

No chainset, no pedals, just a battery powered rudimentary electric vehicle.

Costing $179 at retail (with savings available for Kickstarter backers), we can certainly see a use for it as a cheaper version of a mobility scooter, and in a way it does look fun.

But a bike it is not, and it most definitely does not hover.

What we do know, however, is that there is such a thing as a hoverbike that does, you know, hover, because madcap British plumber-cum-inventor and YouTube star Colin Furze made one last year and here’s the proof.

> Video: Colin Furze is back – with a HoverBike that flies