By: James D - 18th May 2006 at 15:35
Jet bike? Pah!
Slightly fey if you ask me.
Want to call yourself a real man?
Then what you really need is one of these….
….a rocket motor powering a propeller…
… in a Go Kart! 😮
More info on what was the real “Acme” company here….
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/04/the_real_acme.html
Enjoy! 😮 :diablo:
By: QldSpitty - 18th May 2006 at 11:30
“yes officer this bike just overtook us at mach1…ummm no we didn,t get a number plate number….yes its black with a 10 feet of flame out the back……..have I been drinking Officer!!”….
By: JonathanF - 18th May 2006 at 10:00
Hell’s bells. That looks like a one-way ticket to next year’s “Darwin Awards”.
By: DazDaMan - 18th May 2006 at 08:32
No. Freaking. Way! 😮
Rather them than me, though! :p
By: Fouga23 - 18th May 2006 at 06:25
is that the best you guys have? I see your bike and raise you this:
http://www.nostavia.com/project_uk.html
:p
By: Kenbo - 17th May 2006 at 22:23
Whooooop’s i seem to have missed an earlier reply posting a link to the same rod shop…….
Next time i shall read the whole thread instead of just lookin at the piccies 😮 :p
By: Kenbo - 17th May 2006 at 22:05
Like the bikes but this is summat else 😮 😮
looks like a rare unit too with the down-draught carb, 130 or 131 series?
from a Hornet perhaps………
Ideas???
Kenb’o
By: ZRX61 - 16th May 2006 at 14:57
The narrow approach….
By: DazDaMan - 16th May 2006 at 13:56
A rotary with a difference…!
By: James D - 16th May 2006 at 13:49
A company called Megola had a different solution to the cooling problem in the 1920s.
By: RPSmith - 16th May 2006 at 12:41
looks great but I would imagine cooling is a problem without a prop/fan on the front when the bike is stationary.
Roger Smith.
By: DazDaMan - 16th May 2006 at 12:29
😮
Pretty car, but I’d hate to pay the fuel bills!
By: QldSpitty - 16th May 2006 at 12:21
Four wheels are safer…http://www.rodshop.com.au/project55.htm
By: DazDaMan - 16th May 2006 at 11:55
Probably along the lines of:
“Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!”
I dunno about the engine noise, though! 😉
By: wessex boy - 16th May 2006 at 11:36
They don’t have bumps in the states . . . or corners! :rolleyes:
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Good point! I wonder whether it corners in one direction better than the other, with all of the gyroscopic forces acting like that?
I also wonder what noise it makes, as we are used to hearing them with a big fan on the front? :confused:
By: LesB - 16th May 2006 at 11:25
You just wouldn’t want to go over a speed hump with that would you? That bottom cylinder looks a mite exposed…. 😮
They don’t have bumps in the states . . . or corners! :rolleyes:
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By: wessex boy - 16th May 2006 at 08:30
You just wouldn’t want to go over a speed hump with that would you? That bottom cylinder looks a mite exposed…. 😮
By: chicken chaser - 15th May 2006 at 22:24
fantastic bike.so much better to have put the engine to some practical use and not in some museum,stuck in a dark forgotten corner, covered in dust and no one knowing or caring what it is.
karl
By: Guzzineil - 15th May 2006 at 21:57
Even more startling than this and the other radial installation, somewhere there is a motorcycle powered by a single “slice” of Merlin, with the most horrible set of guards against flying bits. Can’t find the photo at present. Boggling.
mad Aussie.. 😀
http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddped/rrv2.htm
and the small radial engines used in the modern bikes are sourced from that part of the world too..
http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/05/10/radial-engine-powered-motorcycle/
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