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sportbike_pilot · 05-19-2005, 07:25 AM

Doesn't a U2 kinda qualify in the same category?

-sbp

Chango · 05-19-2005, 07:32 AM

I thought that was called the Y2K. And it was in the movie Dorque, so I'm afraid that it doesn't matter how fast it is, it will never outrun that stench.

Chango

longride · 05-19-2005, 07:43 AM

Doesn't Leno already have one of them? I think he rides it on the street occasionally. Anyone know?

Buzglyd · 05-19-2005, 07:47 AM

Leno does have a turbine motorcycle. It was hysterical reading his description of melting someone's car bumper while he was sitting at a stoplight.

Steven_Verschoor · 05-19-2005, 08:20 AM

Yup. He's brought it to the Rock Store a few times. It sounds really cool.

mscuddy · 05-19-2005, 08:35 AM

He drove it to the Autobook place in Burbank one Saturday a while back. Drew a big crowd.

He also drives that big silver monstrosity with the aircraft engine down Hollywood Way now and then, along with his Stanley Steamer.

Slumming I guess.

pushrod · 05-19-2005, 09:27 AM

Somewhere I read that Leno's biggest problem with the bike is the time it takes for the engine to spool up, and even more importantly, how long it takes to reduce thrust when you come off the throttle.

wickedfastemc · 05-19-2005, 09:50 AM

funny considering your $10,000 kawi/honda/suzuki is gonna beat this thing ina quarter mile race anyday. we could buy 15 of the asian bikes and all 15 of them could win at once for the price of one of these silly contraptions.

rick_1 · 05-19-2005, 09:57 AM

THey sound like a Hoover vacuum cleaner on steroids...and they smell funny (kerosene fuel). But hey, doesn't a big-block Hoss produce more than 300 HP and they've been avaiable for several years. Ric

strunkl · 05-19-2005, 10:01 AM

More about Leno's version, which has been around since at least 2001, at:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/auto...o/1302876.html

with a little more info and pics at:

http://www.bikemenu.com/turbine.html

Elsewhere Leno has talked about the joy he gets when crowded at a stoplight: the turbine produces such hot exhaust, he claims to melt plastic bumpers.

05-19-2005, 07:25 AM	#1
sportbike_pilot Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 729	Re: Turbine Superbike Doesn't a U2 kinda qualify in the same category? -sbp

05-19-2005, 07:32 AM	#2
Chango Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 152	Re: Turbine Superbike I thought that was called the Y2K. And it was in the movie Dorque, so I'm afraid that it doesn't matter how fast it is, it will never outrun that stench. Chango __________________ "Wise men speak because they have something to say. Foolish men speak because they have to say something" -- Plato

05-19-2005, 07:43 AM	#3
longride Super Duper Mod Man Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Anywhere they let me Posts: 10,484	Re: Turbine Superbike Doesn't Leno already have one of them? I think he rides it on the street occasionally. Anyone know? __________________ I'm a knucklehead

05-19-2005, 07:47 AM	#4
Buzglyd Founding Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 10,137	Re: Turbine Superbike Leno does have a turbine motorcycle. It was hysterical reading his description of melting someone's car bumper while he was sitting at a stoplight. __________________ Jay Leno: "President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 than he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama."

05-19-2005, 08:20 AM	#5
Steven_Verschoor Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 441	Re: Turbine Superbike Yup. He's brought it to the Rock Store a few times. It sounds really cool. __________________ http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys/d.gif

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05-19-2005, 08:35 AM	#6
mscuddy MODERATOR X Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Next to my still checkin the temp. Posts: 5,444	Re: Turbine Superbike He drove it to the Autobook place in Burbank one Saturday a while back. Drew a big crowd. He also drives that big silver monstrosity with the aircraft engine down Hollywood Way now and then, along with his Stanley Steamer. Slumming I guess. __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.

05-19-2005, 09:27 AM	#7
pushrod Founding Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Baja 'Bama Posts: 3,478	Re: Turbine Superbike Somewhere I read that Leno's biggest problem with the bike is the time it takes for the engine to spool up, and even more importantly, how long it takes to reduce thrust when you come off the throttle. __________________ You would not understand, this is not how I am... I have become - Comfortably Numb.

05-19-2005, 09:50 AM	#8
wickedfastemc Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	Re: Turbine Superbike funny considering your $10,000 kawi/honda/suzuki is gonna beat this thing ina quarter mile race anyday. we could buy 15 of the asian bikes and all 15 of them could win at once for the price of one of these silly contraptions.

05-19-2005, 09:57 AM	#9
rick_1 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 13	Re: Turbine Superbike THey sound like a Hoover vacuum cleaner on steroids...and they smell funny (kerosene fuel). But hey, doesn't a big-block Hoss produce more than 300 HP and they've been avaiable for several years. Ric

05-19-2005, 10:01 AM	#10
strunkl Founding Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1	Re: Turbine Superbike More about Leno's version, which has been around since at least 2001, at: http://www.popularmechanics.com/auto...o/1302876.html with a little more info and pics at: http://www.bikemenu.com/turbine.html Elsewhere Leno has talked about the joy he gets when crowded at a stoplight: the turbine produces such hot exhaust, he claims to melt plastic bumpers.