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Fastest steam-powered motorcycle in history tears up the 1/8th mile

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Graham Sykes aboard the record-setting steam-powered Force of Nature

A husband-and-wife precision engineering team has set a new world record standing 1/8th mile time for steam-powered motorcycles. The Force of Nature is effectively a rocket on wheels, and the team says it should go much faster in the next attempt.

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Lightning Strike targets 250 mph with upcoming electric land speed run

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Lightning Motorcycles once had the fastest motorcycle you could buy in its barnstorming electric LS218, a ride on which remains to this day a solid top-ten highlight in my four and a half decades on this planet. The 218 mph (351 km/h) run that gave the… Continue reading Lightning Strike targets 250 mph with upcoming electric land speed run→

Frontier-smashing Porsche 356 snow-drifter to attempt Antarctic record

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If you were planning to travel hundreds of miles across Antarctic snow and ice, you’d probably be looking to captain something like an e-treaded polar snow ferry or concept-grade propeller cruiser, maybe even a specially prepared tricycle. What you wou… Continue reading Frontier-smashing Porsche 356 snow-drifter to attempt Antarctic record→

“Big hole” land speed electric motorcycle hits the track for first tests

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There’s no bike on earth remotely like the bizarre WMC250EV, an electric land speed racer built to slash aerodynamic drag by taking the radical step of tunneling a giant hole through the middle of it. The target speed is 250 mph (402 km/h), and its cre… Continue reading “Big hole” land speed electric motorcycle hits the track for first tests→

“World’s fastest electric motorcycle” uses radical big hole technology

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There’s no motorcycle on the planet like this one. British company White Motorcycle Concepts (WMC) has put land speed record holders on notice with a 2WD, hydraulically hub-steered electric motorcycle, designed around a giant hole. The company says the… Continue reading “World’s fastest electric motorcycle” uses radical big hole technology→