|   Thread on DH page about wild FS bikes from Japan... | CraigH
Mar 27, 2002 11:10 AM | | built by people with way to much time on their hands!
http://forums13.consumerreview.com/crforum?viewall@@.ef1e039
Check out the video of the jet engine powered bike....
Funny stuff. |
| Needs a bigger engine.... | Monte
Mar 27, 2002 11:39 AM | | sounds cool though.
Monte |
| Nice....or this...Jet Powered Beer Cooler | 2melow
Mar 27, 2002 11:41 AM | | Waaaay to much free time..
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/ |
| Is the "TU" sign under the top tube | JimC
Mar 27, 2002 11:50 AM | | for the expression we all know and love for when yer dead?
As in T!ts Up? Hmn. think I don't need one of them boosters. Yet.
... Maybe for UPHILL? Jim |
| Now THAT's SILLY... | BCRider
Mar 27, 2002 12:59 PM | | Um, do you guys realize that the little jet engine in there is worth something like $3000 to $4000?
Some people just have WAY too much $ and time on their hands..... |
| A Rich man's toy. | valve bouncer (Jap)
Mar 28, 2002 6:40 AM | | The price tag for that bike is 1,000,000 yen or about US$7,500. I don't know how much this one is but I plan to make it mine. |
| re: Thread on DH page about wild FS bikes from Japan... | wyliecoyote
Mar 27, 2002 1:07 PM | | what the f**k that's all i can say |
| I always wondered what would happen... | kristian
Mar 27, 2002 1:10 PM | | if I attached a few D size Estes model rocket engines to my bike. How cool would it be to have a rocket boost for those really wicked climbs? |
| D size madness, eh? | JimC
Mar 27, 2002 1:15 PM | | a few years back the Darwin winner put a JATO rocket with duct tape or whatever on his old Pontiac. Results were a large balck splotch on a cliffside a few hundred feet off the ground. Hmn, er, LOL. take your pick, Jim ;P |
| Yeah, I've read about that guy | kristian
Mar 27, 2002 1:22 PM | | And regardless of whether or not that's an urban legend, I am not going to put rocket engines on my bike... :)
Actually, back in Jr High we had the idea of putting them on skate boards (which we had scientific plans of testing using an old Tonka truck and some big rocks to simulate weight). Never got around to doing it though--who says that Nintendo is a bad thing??? |
| Ran into a web page somewhere.... | CraigH
Mar 27, 2002 1:30 PM | | That had the complete story on the rocket car.
Apparently they had modified a car to run on an old rail track and were testing the car without anyone in it when it crashed, generating the Darwin award story.
Anyone have the link? |
| why google rocks | JimC
Mar 27, 2002 1:39 PM | | jato car sled =
http://www.geocities.com/spencer1984/my_models/rocket59.html
Viola!
Jim |
| The page I was refering to is probably the one he has linked... | CraigH
Mar 27, 2002 1:55 PM | | but is now broken.
The page I read was very long talking about his fathering owning a salvage yard specializing in old military stuff. Searching through the yard to find a suitable car.
His buddy finding the abandon rail line.
It was an ammusing story. |
| I've read so many different things about that... | kristian
Mar 27, 2002 1:44 PM | | ...but this should dispell the myth: |
| Fake! | JimC
Mar 27, 2002 1:52 PM | | I kinda thought it was up there with the Ford Thunderbird story from when I was a kid (ya ya ya I know, 100 years ago).
New T-bird but a guy died in it and the smell is non-removeable so it's yours for $50, but the thing smells bad, eh?
I think we should move on to D cup, er, another story line?
Jim |
| Okay, found the page! | CraigH
Mar 27, 2002 2:03 PM | | http://www.wagoneers.com/pages/RocketCar/rockit.html |
| Ya beat me to it. OH, and an actual true story... | Jettstream
Mar 27, 2002 2:40 PM | | I remember that from a couple of years ago. Long story, but jeeeeeZUS was it funny as hell.
True story (best I could find on short notice is here.) Back in 1966, the New York Central railroad stuck a pair of jet engines on the roof of a Budd RDC (self-powered passenger car), and ran it up to 183 mph in a test outside of Cleveland, somehow managing not to have (what would have been) one of the most spectacular wrecks in North American rail history. Honest! |
| Here's what happens when you use JATO's............. | Mr. Tokyo
Mar 27, 2002 2:36 PM | | For thier intended purpose:
http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/hercules/fat-albert/bin-1/fa_02.jpg |
| That's going to need some better brakes! | Mary Ann
Mar 27, 2002 3:06 PM | | Too weird! |
| Forgot this one............ | Mr. Tokyo
Mar 27, 2002 3:20 PM | | I saw that bike on a TV show here and I LMAO because they had it running in the studio, blowing things over, blowing some women's skirts up, messing up everyone's hair, and making ALLOT of noise (the audience was freaking out) as the guy rode it in circles. Needless to say when that thing ran out of fuel the stage was a wreck..... |
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