Kicksled with a home-brew jet engine

A kicksled driven by a jet engine was mildly successful (but a great crowdpleaser) at the annual winter drag racing festival at Lake Ljusnedal in northern Sweden, held in the last weekend of march 2009. A kicksled is a swedish invention, and the first definite record of a kicksled was in a newspaper in northern Sweden around 1870. The kicksleds of that era had stiff wooden runners and were quite heavy. In 1900 the design of the modern kicksled with flexible metal runners was introduced by the swedish factory Orsasparken in the small village of Orsa in the county of Dalecarlia, world famous with the hand crafted wooden horses, the Dalahäst. The Orsasparken with metal runners quickly became standard in Finland, Sweden and Norway.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• kicksled
• jet
• engine
• ljusnedal

[sjogge123]

tänk om man trillar av o den baktänder?

[metalforthewin]

@xjet

It goes from 0 to 200 km/h in 5 seconds!

[xjet]

That looks like a whole lot of fun!

That last sled sure had some kick-ass acceleration!