3800HP Bike...
05-08-2008, 12:59 AM
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3800HP Bike...
Holy... 
From Top Gear...
From Top Gear...
Pretty impressive, huh? This is the does-what-it-says-on-the-tin Jet Bike, the completely, totally unhinged creation of Aussie mechanic 'Mad' Ron Laycock. Yep, he's got a funny name. No, we don't dare to laugh at him.
Darwin-based Laycock has built the bike around a Rolls-Royce turbojet engine that develops around 3,800bhp before the afterburners kick in. Eep.
We don't know how quick it is yet - Laycock says he hopes to have the bike ready for quarter-mile trials later on this year - but we're predicting 0-60mph times somewhere in the, erm, zero second territory.
The impressive photographs are from static burnouts (or whatever the equivalent is in the world of jet power), but they're enough to confirm that you don't want to be tailgating the Jet Bike too closely.
Mr Laycock, we salute you. From a safe distance. Armed with fire extinguishers.
Darwin-based Laycock has built the bike around a Rolls-Royce turbojet engine that develops around 3,800bhp before the afterburners kick in. Eep.
We don't know how quick it is yet - Laycock says he hopes to have the bike ready for quarter-mile trials later on this year - but we're predicting 0-60mph times somewhere in the, erm, zero second territory.
The impressive photographs are from static burnouts (or whatever the equivalent is in the world of jet power), but they're enough to confirm that you don't want to be tailgating the Jet Bike too closely.
Mr Laycock, we salute you. From a safe distance. Armed with fire extinguishers.
05-08-2008, 02:32 AM
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I'm going to guess that 'Mad' Ron Laycock.....the guy on the bike......got an A- in gym in high school and a D+ in physics.
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05-08-2008, 02:47 AM
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Anyone who wants to ride that thing must have a deathwish
How the F do you stop something like that
How the F do you stop something like that
05-08-2008, 05:01 AM
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Man, that guy's got some balls to ride that thing.
Erm... maybe that should be had balls?
Erm... maybe that should be had balls?
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Originally Posted by joerockt
Yes.
Dumbass. It's called a H-E-L-M-E-T. Check it out.
Also, It's called a S-I-D-E-W-A-L-K, and it is for people, not drag bikes.
Frickin' Darwin was asleep at the switch again.
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