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

Posted by Joel Johnson, May 20, 2008 6:42 AM | permalink

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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#1 posted by strider_mt2k

, May 20, 2008 6:57 AM

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

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#2 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , May 20, 2008 7:12 AM

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

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#3 posted by Halloween Jack , May 20, 2008 7:45 AM

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

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#4 posted by Jack

, May 20, 2008 8:05 AM

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

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#5 posted by dacker , May 20, 2008 9:42 AM

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....

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#6 posted by airshowfan

, May 20, 2008 10:55 AM

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

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#7 posted by Torchwood , May 20, 2008 11:25 AM

The Monty Python reference is much appreciated.
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#8 posted by Anonymous , May 20, 2008 12:04 PM

finally a way to achieve 2MPG on my bicycle!