311mph: new motorcycle speed record

Good to see that it maintained the Hayabusa look and resisted the need to look like a 'streamliner'. Conventional motorcycle; give me a break.

Posted: 19/07/2011 at 14:16

I'd bet my life a zx14 would put up bigger numbers.
Damn squids!

Posted: 19/07/2011 at 20:25

It’s got a Hayabussa chassis, conventional running gear, front and rear, and the guy sits on it (hands first), rather than in it (feet first). It’s not a streamliner.

And no a ZX14 wouldn’t put up bigger numbers. There are several land racing ZX14’s but none appear to be able to reliably post the numbers that the hyper-tuned Bussa’s seem to. It’s the same today as it ever has been in the world of drag and land racing, if you want to tune a production motorcycle engine to reliably produce idiotic amounts of horsepower choose a big Suzuki.

Posted: 21/07/2011 at 16:38

Beginning at sunrise on March 6 (which was actually this afternoon here in the States) during the annual Australia Speed Week in Lake Gairdner, the Top-1 "Ack Attack" team of American motorcycle racing veterans will be only the third team in 27 years to try and establish a new FIM (Federation Internationale de Motorcyclisme) World Land Speed Record and enter the Guinness World Records. Sponsored by Burlingame, Calif.-based Top Oil Products Co., and led by noted motorcycle designer Mike Akatiff, the team’s record run--with a custom-built 900-hp streamliner--will be witnessed by officials from FIM, the international sanctioning organization that certifies motorcycle world land-speed records. The Top-1 group has already set an unofficial motorcycle land-speed record of 328.3 mph on October 16, 2004 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah, which was certified by Bonneville Nationals Inc. and the Southern California Timing Association.--Ken Juran

Read more: Motorcycle Land-Speed Record? - Popular Mechanics

Posted: 14/08/2011 at 12:19