Own your own pulse jet-powered bicycle for just $650

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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!)

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14 Responses to Own your own pulse jet-powered bicycle for just $650

  1. strider_mt2k says:

    All in a day’s work for…Bicycle Repairman.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCdIe0wdvU

  2. ROSSINDETROIT says:

    You gotta love anything that starts up with a blast of flame and sounds like the world’s loudest and longest fart.

  3. Halloween Jack says:

    I’m reminded of the apocryphal Darwin Award story about the car with a jet engine embedded in a cliff.

  4. Jack says:

    This will really ease my pal Will (or was it Wille E.?) and his Road Runner hunting.

  5. dacker says:

    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….

  6. airshowfan says:

    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

  7. Torchwood says:

    The Monty Python reference is much appreciated.
    T

  8. Anonymous says:

    finally a way to achieve 2MPG on my bicycle!

  9. jetsetsc says:

    That’s pretty fast lane. I prefer the slow lane bike bods:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ffiB_uoVx1E
    -j

  10. Eulipian says:

    Hey, hold my beer and watch this . . .

  11. zowie says:

    Big deal. Pulse jets are OK but nothing compared to the Turbonique products that hit the noosphere recently…

  12. Pugzz says:

    Wow! Don’t let Pee Wee Herman see this!

  13. aluxeterna says:

    WORST IDEA EVER!
    BEST IDEA EVER!

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