As far as he knows, Bob Maddox of Medford is the only maker and marketer of valved pulse-jet engines in the world. And strapped to one of his customer's fat-tire bicycles, the ear-splitting, ...
Hobby inventor and several-time Guinness World Record holder Colin Furze has strapped a pulse jet to a rickety old bicycle. Why? Well, why not? Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...
Maddox rigged his bike such that pulse jets on the left side of the frame lend the vehicle power by igniting fuel and air 70 times per second. The idea wasn’t his originally: The German army used this ...
Colin Furze, maniac maker of maniac things like the maniac 50mph baby carriage, has decided to attach a fire-breathing jet propulsion system to an old woman’s bike because that’s what maniacs do. As ...
The dry lake beds of Cedarville, California, are a place where physics and common sense go to die. It’s flat, desolate, and wide open—the perfect backdrop for Bob Maddox, a man who looks at bicycles ...
This, according to its maker Bob Maddox, who custom-built the ride you see below for a client with a daredevil streak the size of Texas. There’s also a good chance the mysterious client who paid ...
It's one thing to long for a jet pack. It's quite another to want to lash together four DIY rockets like the one pictured here and launch yourself 25,000 feet into the air. Bob Maddox isn't waiting ...
The folks over at Tech Ingredients had a lot of spare parts left begging for a new project after taking apart a hybrid jet engine build. So they decided to make an e-bike where the job of a mid-drive ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...