Topic: Crazy Baastard! I want one..................

[Terry in Australia]

 Not only is this thing crazy, it's also for sale!

http://www.youtube.com/d14653

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/jet-engine-pulsejet-50lbthrust-drag-race-show-car-bike_W0QQitemZ180280190513QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180280190513&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C65%3A1%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245

[CBGhia]

I would sooooo ride that!  Why don't i have an extra $700 laying around?

[bill440cars]

 So Terry, when will yours arrive?

[troppo]

As far as i can see they are basically ram jets, WW2 V1 and V2 bombs aka buzz bombs.
One of the simplest jets to make.....
So why buy one when you can make one

http://www.pulse-jets.com/

http://www.pulse-jets.com/ramjet/ramjet.htm

[mystic_1]

As far as i can see they are basically ram jets

A pulse jet is not a ramjet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet

mystic_1

[troppo]

common mistake it seems

[fuzzybutt]

thats even crazier than a motorcycle powered wheel chair!

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah, it's a pulse jet. Coincidentally last week I was watching a program on TV called "Scrapheap Challenge" (sister program to "Junkyard Wars" in the US) where the two teams had to make jet powered cars in 10 hours entirely from scrap parts.

One team made a jet using a big truck turbocharger, and the other team built a pulse jet, which eventually won the challenge. Fascinating stuff, and at the time, owning an engine powered bicycle I thought, "Ooooher, a little pulse jet would be cool on a bicycle"!

Only problem I can see is that as it chews thru 1 gallon of gas every 2 minutes, or 30 gallons per hour, it makes a Hummer look positively thrifty! Cheers, Terry.

[DammitDan]

And it also just happens to put out 140 dB.

"any exposure to 140-dB sound causes immediate damage (and causes actual pain)"  http://www.howstuffworks.com/question124.htm

 

Hope you have friendly neighbors 

[Jonesy]

And it also just happens to put out 140 dB.

"any exposure to 140-dB sound causes immediate damage (and causes actual pain)"  http://www.howstuffworks.com/question124.htm

 

Hope you have friendly neighbors 

If they are friendly, they probably won't be for much longer if they have to listen to that! 

[DarkRider]

Jet powered CB anyone? lol

[gregimotis]

My search for a replacement pipe has ended...  Can you freakin' imagine the badassedness quotient on a glowing red 'exhaust' with three foot of fire coming out the end? 
We're talking 'Fourth Horesman' badass.  Genghis Khan badass.

[miles nowhere]

My bicycle club and another group in New York made a Pulse Jet bike on a motorcycle frame(cb I think). It set off car alarms all the way down the street...I'll try to find a youtube link.

[Terry in Australia]

G'Day Miles, how are you mate? Yeah, I'd love to see that!

I installed a little 70cc two stroke engine on my bicycle, and I've got another engine "kit" in a box, so my cuz and I are turning it into a "twin engined" bicycle, so that next year we can take it to the salt flats at Lake Gairdner in South Australia to attempt a motorised bicycle land speed record. Not as much fun as a pulse jet, but it'll still be a hoot!

[miles nowhere]

This is the only video I can find thats posted, its toward the end at 4:30 I think.  This video is from a block party we throw in Brooklyn every year.

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[miles nowhere]

...and I think your twin engined bike would probably go faster on the flats than our jet bike did  on the streets of New York...and piss off a lot less cops

[fuzzybutt]

dunno, i think i'd be a bit nervous with 4 feet of red hot metal and flames behind me on a bicycle. call me overcautious but...................

[tramp]

see that glowing red exhaust
one sneeze and your in the hospital
now i have two weed whipper motors
can i do something with those?

[333]

I saw that "Junktard Wars" show too.  I'm thinking a turbojet on a small boat!

[olds-cool]

Miles: that looks like one hell of a crazy party!

[alltherightpills]

Miles: that looks like one hell of a crazy party!

No shiite man, no shiite.  That's the kind of party I can get behind

[Terry in Australia]

...and I think your twin engined bike would probably go faster on the flats than our jet bike did  on the streets of New York...and piss off a lot less cops

Jesus, that's a bicycle club? I don't think I'll be riding down that street in a hurry, I don't think I'd get out alive!

Ha ha, that thing didn't seem to have a great deal of thrust mate, I reckon you're right my bike will do 35 MPH with one engine, and I'm hoping it'll do almost twice that with two, I think (but don't know for sure) the land speed record is only around 60 MPH, so we're in with a chance! Cheers, Terry.

[miles nowhere]

Yeah, we have a pretty good time...just not very safely...or soberly.

Terry, it actually gets going pretty good after a block or so...its a pretty heavy set up with a pretty fat guy on it so it doesn't do great right off the line..

[DammitDan]

I think (but don't know for sure) the land speed record is only around 60 MPH, so we're in with a chance! Cheers, Terry.

Only 60MPH?  Hell, I've done 40 MPH down a mountain pass on a fully loaded unmotorized mountain bike.  It took us 4 hours to get up the pass and less than 10 minutes to get down the other side 

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah mate, that was according to Frank (754) but I don't know for sure. I've done 40 MPH on a Hybrid (mountain bike/road bike cross) down a steep hill on a paved road, that was fun until I got a "speed wobble" going, but when we go on the salt my cuz (who's about half my weight) will be the "pilot", and I'm hoping to convince him to do it butt naked, aka Rollie Free, or maybe in one of those Olympic swimming costumes, to reduce the drag, don't cha know.........