Tinkerer Robert Maddox has built a pulse jet-powered bicycle — and he’ll sell it to you on eBay (sans bike) for just $650. The 140 decibel clatter tube is capable of propelling a bicycle and rider up to 75 MPH.
In the video of Maddox’s ride around a track it doesn’t look like it goes all that fast, but I bet it feels a lot faster when the ass that’s strapped to a roaring pulse jet is yours.
Auction Page [eBay via Bike Radar] (Thanks, Matt!)
All in a day’s work for…Bicycle Repairman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCdIe0wdvU
You gotta love anything that starts up with a blast of flame and sounds like the world’s loudest and longest fart.
I’m reminded of the apocryphal Darwin Award story about the car with a jet engine embedded in a cliff.
This will really ease my pal Will (or was it Wille E.?) and his Road Runner hunting.
Who needs old playing cards in your bike spokes! Now you too can make your bike sound just like a German V-1 “Buzz Bomb” from WWII.
They really did use pulse jets on the V-1….
I’m sure Red Bull will be organizing an international pulsejet-bicycle-racing league anytime now
Seriously, pulsejets are very cool. MAKE should do a special something on these someday. Bruce Simpson, Mike Everman, Robert Riley, and Dewey King all have pulsejet sites that are well worth a visit:
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet
http://www.pulse-jets.com
http://www.rqriley.com/gluharef.html
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~kingd1
You wanna see something REALLY crazy? A strap-on backpack helicopter, powered by a pulsejet at each rotor-tip:
http://google.com/images?q=MEG-2XH
The Monty Python reference is much appreciated.
T
finally a way to achieve 2MPG on my bicycle!
That’s pretty fast lane. I prefer the slow lane bike bods:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ffiB_uoVx1E
-j
Hey, hold my beer and watch this . . .
Big deal. Pulse jets are OK but nothing compared to the Turbonique products that hit the noosphere recently…
Wow! Don’t let Pee Wee Herman see this!
WORST IDEA EVER!
BEST IDEA EVER!
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