Helicopter engined bike

[Banditbandit]

Holy shit Batman ...

Saw this finished and running in Hamilton yestrerday ...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/bike...red-motorcycle



420 horses ... the guys said "it's frightening" .. I bet it is .. running discs front and rear .. twins on the front - but only twin pot ... frightening when you open the throttle ... and frightening when you try to stop it ..

[TheDemonLord]

Hmmm, its built by Oceania....

[EJK]

Cardboard exhaust. Kiwi engineering

[Bass]

Bags of throttle lag and no engine braking. Going to be interesting to ride.
Still the STP turbine cars made it work well at Indy, so maybe there's a faint hope.

[sidecar bob]

Hmmm, its built by Oceania....

I had a yarn with the guy at the Hamilton swap meet. Unsurprisingly he's in the helicopter industry, I think that's where he works.
I seem to remember that the engine parts are pretty much all over hours for aviation use.

[TheDemonLord]

I had a yarn with the guy at the Hamilton swap meet. Unsurprisingly he's in the helicopter industry, I think that's where he works.
I seem to remember that the engine parts are pretty much all over hours for aviation use.

I might know the people that built it - the question is - can I wrangle getting a leg over it?

[Old Steve]

Bags of throttle lag and no engine braking. Going to be interesting to ride.
Still the STP turbine cars made it work well at Indy, so maybe there's a faint hope.

Yeah, they managed to race by lifting off and then opening the throttle going down the straight so that it spooled down and then spooled back up so that it delivered power in several seconds when the car was coming out of the corner.

Apparently they were terrifying things to drive.

[jasonu]

Been done before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTT_Turbine_Superbike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd_GhbxX9Fo

[Banditbandit]

I might know the people that built it - the question is - can I wrangle getting a leg over it?

Mate - I wouldn't go near the thing ... open the throttle and instantly you're in another county ...

[Big Dog]

Mate - I wouldn't go near the thing ... open the throttle and instantly you're in another county ...

I don't see the problem.

[scumdog]

I'd ride it.

maybe only once....

[TheDemonLord]

Mate - I wouldn't go near the thing ... open the throttle and instantly you're in another county ...

You don't feel an urge to try it out?

Each to their own.

[AllanB]

Favourite quote from the 2014 article...

"and the noise is expected to be significant"

[Bass]

Jay Leno has a Y2K in his collection.
He tells the story of a guy in a VW inching up to him at the traffic lights to get a closer look at the bike. Leno inched away but the guy in the car kept moving up too. What he didn't realise was that the bike's exhaust was melting his front bumper.

[pritch]

I read an article about the Y2K (not exactly a road test) and the main impression was that the thing was cooking the guys legs. The local version might be a bit of a leg warmer too.