Jet Bike news - Fire fighter - 2008

Pretty impressive, huh? This is the does-what-it-says-on-the-tin Jet Bike, the completely, totally unhinged creation of Aussie mechanic 'Mad' Ron Laycock. Yep, he's got a funny name. No, we don't dare to laugh at him.

Darwin-based Laycock has built the bike around a Rolls-Royce turbojet engine that develops around 3,800bhp before the afterburners kick in.

Eep.

We don't know how quick it is yet - Laycock says he hopes to have the bike ready for quarter-mile trials later on this year - but we're predicting 0-60mph times somewhere in the, erm, zero second territory.

The impressive photographs are from static burnouts (or whatever the equivalent is in the world of jet power), but they're enough to confirm that you don't want to be tailgating the Jet Bike too closely.

Mr Laycock, we salute you. From a safe distance. Armed with fire extinguishers.