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May
22
Bicycle Jets — Top Speed in 7 Seconds
Filed Under bike riding
Want to ride your bike, but need to get someplace quicker than pedal power can? Why not fire up your bike jet?
Why ride at 10-15 MPH when you can cruise along on your bicycle at 75 MPH? Pure insanity — but it looks like a lot of fun.
Video: Bob Maddox’s pulse jet bike
Wired’s Chuck Squatriglia writes about jet biker Bob Maddox’s creations in a Wired.com report:
The thought of bolting a jet engine to an old Schwinn cruiser came to him about six months ago when “I wanted to throw the engine onto something that would get me around.” The bike engines provide 50 pounds of thrust. They weigh 13 pounds apiece, but Maddox says you hardly notice it when you’re on the bike. Get it going, though, and things get interesting.
“It accelerates pretty quickly,” he says. “It’ll hit top speed in about 7 seconds. But even at high speed, it feels very stable. You’re just being pushed along on a column of air.”
While pulse jet bikes aren’t going to be the solution to figuring out ways to avoid high fuel prices, they do look like a lot of fun. Just be prepared for noise complaints from neighbors as you launch your jet. It produces an ear drum busting 150 db of noise.
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