THE motorcycle land speed record has been smashed with a 360.913mph two-way run at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Friday.The Top 1 Ack Attack Streamliner motorcycle, powered by a modified Suzuki Hyabusa motor was piloted by Rocky Robinson and broke

TWO-TIME female motorcycle land speed record holder Valerie Thompson is switching to four wheels in an attempt to break the 40-year-old record for the world's fastest woman.The current record was set in 1972 by Kitty O'Neal and stands at 512mph

A UK team has been formed with theintention of breaking the outright WorldMotorcycle Land Speed Record. Powertec Angelic Bulldog Project hopes to set a new world record when they make their attempt at Bonneville Salt Flats in Summer 2010. The record

This mad looking motorcycle is a land speed record device that never turned a wheel in anger.It was built by the infamous Dave Manning in 1968 using a discarded drop tank from a Korean fighter plane.Manning built a space-frame chassis inside

A BIODIESEL powered motorcycle has broken land speed records in three categories for diesel powered bikes at the Bonneville Salt Flats.The project machine, codenamed 'Die Moto', was built by Greenline Industries, based in California. The machine

land speed record at Bonneville - where TWO's John Cantlie will also be lookin to set some records of his own.The engine can run on Diesel, B99 biodiesel or even pure vegetable oil. Power output from its 1995cc engine is 165bhp and an impressive 250lb

SEE THE MACHINE that could propel Britain to a new motorcycle land speed world record at The Race Retro 2010 show, held at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry from 12th to 14th March. Almost a year has passed since Visordown broke the news of the planned

A MOTORCYCLIST from Oxfordshire is to attempt to break the World Record for the fastest street legal motorcycle on a turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa at Bonneville Salt Flats.Barry Beadle, 48, will join a line-up of 134 riders at the Salt Flats who

as they struggled upstream to spawn, Manning had a ‘eureka’ moment and figured that a salmon-shaped streamliner motorcycle would offer the lowest possible coefficient of drag and allow him to break his bike’s existing world land speed record of 350mph. Now that

SPEEDFREAK Richard Brown is aiming to raise the motorcycle land speed record to 450mph, using a jet-engine sourced from a helicopter.The project, dubbed Jet Reaction, will use a jet turbine engine capable of producing 1250bhp in standard trim