Sure, Jesus walked on water, but what about his commute? He might’ve pulled a Judah Schiller and biked on water in order to get to work on time. The San Francisco resident (Schiller, not Jesus, although …) jury-rigged a floating bicycle from his mountain bike and an Italian bike kit, after he realized that the new bike path on the Bay Bridge would only go halfway across.

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The kit Schiller uses can fit in a backpack and consists of two inflatable pontoons, a small propeller and a mount that attaches to the bicycle. It takes about 15 minutes to set it all up and five minutes to take it down …

Want your own but leery of just strapping water wings to your bike and calling it good? You’re in luck:

The intrepid entrepreneur has set up an organization called BayCycle to develop affordable and practical water bike kits by 2015 through an IndieGoGo campaign.

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Now if Schiller could just help us with that water-into-wine thing …