Tallbloke may like this one.

A home built motorcycle. http://www.ratbike.org/albion.html check out
the description of the engine. Amazing ingenuity, amazing it works.

 

Valves cut down with God's Own Tool (tm) as well.
I rather like that. Shame the pictures are such crap, really.

 

LOL!
Excellent. Best use of a Z750 frame I've seen on ages. Rear suspension look a
little hard for my liking. Engine - wow, home made sidevalve.

Compression - next to nothing.

<snort>

 

The fact that someone can make a working engine by hand without going
near power tools, jigs or a micrometer is excellent. True Mad Max style
engineering at its best I thought.

 

There was an article on it in BSH a couple of years ago. No power tools
except angle grinder, drill, welder...

 

Exhaust: wheelbarrow handles as header pipes. I can see my FZR gaining
garden shed related items in time.

 

I spotted the BSH logo in the corner. What I was really after, is a home
built turbine engined bike I spotted on a web page somewhere. The only
thing being, is that I can't remember which page it was on.

 

text.dial.pipex.com:

I saw this one win best rat and best engineering at Glowing Lamb rally in
Cumbria years ago. Not a turbine but alternative fuel:

http://www.ratbike.org/docs/287.php

 

I do like that, very much so, looks very mean and lean. There is a
turbine bike on ebay, but it's a little out of my price range
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=2490569796&category=6719
..

 

There's a few homebuilt turbine pages out there. I like the bit about the
pulse jet which is so loud it blurs your vision and makes you physically
sick...

http://www.nickhaddock.co.uk/jetgallery.htm
http://www.dynopower.freeserve.co.uk/homepages/jet.htm
http://www.reality.demon.co.uk/gasturb.htm

 

"This motorcycle is at home in city traffic or cruising the highways."

LOL!

 

Muck bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

If you look further, you'll see that Jay Leno has one...

http://tinyurl.com/34gpr

 

Yeh, shame it only does about 50 miles on a tank full.

 

"The engines themselves weigh only about 130 pounds each. You can actually
pick one up. Although they're designed to run on regular Jet A fuel,
they'll run on diesel fuel on the road. I know you're wondering how much
power they put out. That's the best part. McIntyre claims 320 to 350 hp
and a hefty 450 ft.-lb. of torque."

Wowsa.

 

I found this on my quest for that turbine bike, I mean.. why?

http://www.timskelton.com/valkyrie/photos/psycho_bike.htm

I also found something like the bike I was thinking of, at the top of
this page.

http://www.peace65.freeserve.co.uk/Pictures/suzuki.htm

 

Well you could make a leisurely fuel/fag stop while you wait for your
mates to catch up.

 

The clutches used to last 100 miles[1], now they have it right. I should
think so!

[1]About 2 tanks of fuel in other words.

 

Still has a way to go before turbine power becomes practical for any
sort of wheeled contraption.

 

Gayness taken to a ridiculous extreme.

I like diesel bikes, turbine or not.

 

Not at all. What you do is use the turbine to generate electricity, store
the electricity in a carbon-fibre flywheel, use it as you need it to drive
electric motors. This would be compact enough to put into an ordinary car,
and the turbine could burn diesel, so there'd be no fuel availability or
storage issues. It just needs someone to build it.