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Sep 17, 2017 07:01:33   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
This trike reached 162 MPH - powered by water.

https://www.autoblog.com/2017/09/15/watch-water-powered-rocket-trike-do-162-mph/

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Sep 17, 2017 12:08:24   #
pbearperry Loc: Massachusetts
 
WOW

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Sep 18, 2017 05:55:57   #
kubota king Loc: NW , Pa.
 
the acceleration would make my back scream with pain

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Sep 18, 2017 07:44:19   #
OlinBost Loc: Marietta, Ga.
 
Not me!

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Sep 18, 2017 07:45:00   #
cdayton
 
Take that, Bugatti and Tesla!

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Sep 18, 2017 07:48:03   #
StanRP Loc: Ontario Canada
 
jerryc41 wrote:


This is a clip from the article: Don't believe all you read. travelling 60 feet in 0.582 milliseconds ( 0.000852 second) is an average of 4959 Miles per hour and nearly five million G



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Sep 18, 2017 08:00:38   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
Stan, do you think that might be a typo? That should have either left just the decimal number or written 852 milliseconds.
--Bob
StanRP wrote:
This is a clip from the article: Don't believe all you read. travelling 60 feet in 0.582 milliseconds ( 0.000852 second) is an average of 4959 Miles per hour and nearly five million G

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Sep 18, 2017 08:07:22   #
StanRP Loc: Ontario Canada
 
rmalarz wrote:
Stan, do you think that might be a typo? That should have either left just the decimal number or written 852 milliseconds.
--Bob



Very good Bob: Yes it is a typo. It should have been 0.852 SECONDS - not milliseconds. ( thousandth of a second)

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Sep 18, 2017 08:17:14   #
fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH
 
jerryc41 wrote:


Jeez; I wonder what PSI he runs that tank up to? Not sure I'd want to straddle something like that!

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Sep 18, 2017 10:35:37   #
EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace
 
fourlocks wrote:
Jeez; I wonder what PSI he runs that tank up to? Not sure I'd want to straddle something like that!
I was wondering about that myself. I'm sure he didn't pressurize it with a tire pump.

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Sep 18, 2017 10:44:34   #
Marionsho Loc: Kansas
 
fourlocks wrote:
Jeez; I wonder what PSI he runs that tank up to? Not sure I'd want to straddle something like that!


Aww, where's your sense of adventure?

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Sep 18, 2017 10:54:43   #
JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco
 
For comparison, a top fuel dragster does 0-100 mph in .8 seconds (and 330 mph in 3.7 seconds).

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Sep 22, 2017 12:57:55   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
Wow. what a ride that would be!!

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