Mr dakzilla i was just womdering?What type of motor and stored 15 years? any pictures?
Mike
Mike,
I was able located a couple of shots of the bike in an old album.
A little history:
My partner, Larry Stanton Jr. and me were drag racing bikes at the old Palmdale Raceway in the early '90s. Larry was riding the bike and we were having a lot of fun. Larry was also a pilot and came up with the idea of building a jet powered bike.
We decided to move forward with the project more on an impluse than with common sense
. We wanted something that really looked like a bike, not like the couple of jet bikes that were around at that time.
Larry also came up with the idea for the engine. The TRS 18 jet engine makes 250 lbs. of thrust and weights less than a 100 pounds! It was a no brainer... We didn't expect to make any record runs, we just wanted to build something different and have some fun.
We had Trax Dynamics convert our Kawasaki chassis and mount the engine. We used an Indy race car tire on the rear (thanks to Goodyear), a Mickey Thompson drag tire on the front. PMFR rims front and rear (10" on the rear) and four 10" disc brakes, two front and two rear. The body was donated by Acutronix of Phoenix.
The engine is self starting and the electronics are compact, and it throttleable (is that a word?).
Anyway with the lack of funding and the cost of buying spare parts and engines (125K each in the earlier 90s) we shelved the project. Nobody would let us run it anyway!!!
Engine prices have now come down so I was just thinking about putting the bike back together and seeing what it would run.
I'm still thinkng about it..... but want to run my 1000 cc A/G bike next season and see how fast I can make it run.
Couple of photos below.
Buzz