Bob Maddox and his twin pulse jet-powered bike.
The heading is a reference to the song by early 80s Wellington electro group The Body Electric. Just so you know.
This is actually about the pulse jet devices built by Bob Maddox in Oregon. He’s apparently going to get a tv show built around his love of pulse jets, and his attempt to build some so big he can ride them to 25,000 feet and parachute back to earth. I shall be in first to salute him, before I have to salute the small, icky pieces of entrails that use to be him.
What is particularly nice, is that the former cabinet maker has an eye for a good line. Check out the finish on his bike (basically a standard pushbike) and the attractive fiddly bits he’s put on the engine mountings.
In the video below he takes it to 70mph, 0r 112 kph. It’s very, very loud. Not as loud as the big bastard here will be once finished, at bottom.
http://http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2009/06/jetpowered_bicycles_wont_fly_o.html
