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Jet Powered Bicycle Goes 73mph
3Jun2009 Filed under: Bikes Author: Simon
Jet Powered Bicycle
Recently, Bob Maddox rode his jet powered bicycle at 73mph and while not exactly breaking the sound barrier, doing that speed on a bicycle is quite a feat. The bicycle is an average one, except that it is powered by a pulsejet, and that makes it every bit remarkable. The bike has two thrust engines with a hole between their combustion chambers that makes the engines cycle as one.
Despite the engines being on one side, the bike itself does not pull to one side. The tires on the bicycle have heavy spokes and are aired to 65 pounds with heavy tubes which ensures that there’s no vibration and that the bike can move at those high speeds. This bike is headed to the Netherlands, and now Maddox is working on one that would generate 1400 pounds of thrust.
- Tags: bicycle, Bob Maddox, jet powered, pulsejet
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June 4th, 2009 at 11:36 am
[...] ground and causes the camera, which is a good 20 feet away, to blur. Freakin’ awesome. Word on the street is Maddox is working on a bigger engine that would produce 1400 pounds of thrust for a drag [...]