Electric Motorcycle Land Speed Record history?

[teddillard]

I posted about Mike Corbin's 1973 LSR bike recently, and it got me searching for the history of electric motorcycle Land Speed Records and attempts. I've spent the last 3 days googlin', and have virtually nothing. Is there anybody out there who has any information? Next step is to email the sanctioning organizations - the timing associations and AMA and FIM like that.

The post on Mike's bike is here, if you're interested: http://evmc2.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/the-electric-garage-the-corbin-quicksilver/

 

[Bluefang]

hmmmmm, your google kungfu is very weak

http://inhabitat.com/216-mph-electric-killajoule-motorcycle-shatters-world-land-speed-record/

Lightning, mission one and Yates all did runs but i think thats in the front atm for overall motorbike record......tho its a streamlined purpose built trike

Lightening is probably the fastest in the normal motorbike catagory with fairing at 206mph

 

[Mike Edwards]

Interesting to see the Technical Director of World SuperBikes built an electric bike for Max Biaggi to take the speed record in 1994.

150 - 300 Kg class

04. 06. 1994
Fabio Fazi
135.071 km/h

05.06.1994
Max Biaggi
164.198 km/h

Recent records can be found on the FIM website.

http://www.fim-live.com/en/sport/world-records-attempts/events/

Over 300 Kg class

29. 08. 1996.
Bruno Bonhuil
185.503 km/h
178.357 km/h

02. 09. 2010
Paul Thede
Bonneville (USA)
Lightning Moto 1
278.977 km/h
278.933 km/h

30.08.2011
Chip Yates
Bonneville (USA)
Swigz ProRCG
316.899 km/h
316.107 km/h

 

[Mike Edwards]

hmmmmm, your google kungfu is very weak

http://inhabitat.com/216-mph-electric-killajoule-motorcycle-shatters-world-land-speed-record/

Lightning, mission one and Yates all did runs but i think thats in the front atm for overall motorbike record......tho its a streamlined purpose built trike

Lightening is probably the fastest in the normal motorbike catagory with fairing at 206mph

The fairing on the Lightning bike was as closed to being a streamliner without fully enclosing the front wheel as it is possible to get.

Sadly nobody differentiates a 'standard' street or race fairing and something more specialised.

 

[teddillard]

hmmmmm, your google kungfu is very weak

aaaah, no grasshopper. I'm looking for the historic records, back to the Dawn of Records. :lol:

Thanks Mike, that's a start. I do also have this: http://wiki.electricracenews.com/history/electric-motorcycle-land-speed-record-history.html

That shows nothing between Mike's run in 1974 and 2009. I've seen claims that he held the record for 30 something years, so that makes sense I guess. ...but is that it?

(edit: duh, right, 1994, 96. Are those really kph?)

 

[major]

hmmmmm, your google kungfu is very weak

http://inhabitat.com/216-mph-electric-killajoule-motorcycle-shatters-world-land-speed-record/

Lightning, mission one and Yates all did runs but i think thats in the front atm for overall motorbike record......tho its a streamlined purpose built trike

Lightening is probably the fastest in the normal motorbike catagory with fairing at 206mph

The fairing on the Lightning bike was as closed to being a streamliner without fully enclosing the front wheel as it is possible to get.

Sadly nobody differentiates a 'standard' street or race fairing and something more specialised.

Lightning ran as a partial streamliner (APS) and set the SCTA record at 215.960 mph at Bonneville in 2011 Speed Week. The record still stands and it was the first electric powered 2 wheel vehicle to record a verified 200 mph or faster run. That was historic.

 

[teddillard]

holy crap my haid hurtz.

It took a lot longer than I thought to sift through all the stuff, but here's what I have:
http://evmc2.wordpress.com/2013/11/28/electric-motorcycle-land-speed-records/

I still have some cleanup to do on it, but if you see any omissions or errors, please let me know. I'm sure it's going to be a work in progress.

 

[major]

holy crap my haid hurtz.

It's coming along. I like to see stuff like this. You do realize you are just listing Bonneville and there are other LSR venues? Like:
http://www.scta-bni.org/ELMirage.html
http://ecta-lsr.net/
Similar things in Australia and Great Briton.
And the Texas Mile.

I saw where the guys at NEDRA were trying to put together some type of electric speed record keeping system but I don't think it materialized. Spiderman hit 200mph on the drag strip. Does that count?

Roderick Wilde (past NEDRA president) claims to be an EV historian. Maybe he'd be worth talkin' to.

 

[teddillard]

Thanks - yeah, I've actually listed Loring, Bonneville and El Mirage if you take a look. I was aware of those organizations, but haven't found any listings for historical records. As far as I understand it, though, the FIM is the presiding, sanctioning organization over worldwide LSR records, aren't they?

 

[sk8norcal]

ted or anyone,
has anyone tried to run an electric 2 wheel streamliner?

that killajoule "sidecar" is slow for a streamliner at only 216mph.

 

[major]

ted or anyone,
has anyone tried to run an electric 2 wheel streamliner?

that killajoule "sidecar" is slow for a strealiner at only 216mph.

Killajoule started that way but added the 3rd wheel. 2-wheel streamliners are tricky. Hell, streamliners are tricky. I've worked on one and it's a bitch no matter how many wheels you use. But to answer your question, I don't think anyone has gone over 70 mph in a 2-wheel electric streamliner or actually made a record run. Of course you have a few gas 2-wheel streamliners that do well over 300mph.

 

[sk8norcal]

yeah, i remembered reading that.
and how they were going for the overall record beating gas...
and never heard anything more about it.


on a side note, the jet reaction streamliner looks interesting,
(and the castrol rocket also)

http://www.jetreaction.net/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2081250/How-crack-motorbike-land-speed-record-Just-jet-engine-wheels.html

 

[teddillard]

Kent Riches' bike was a full 2-wheeled streamliner:
Jun-09 Kent Riches SUU, Riches-Nelson Racing 176.434 mph

http://www.eracebike.com/home.html

 

[sk8norcal]

^cool, but i think u got it wrong,
they are currently building a streamliner,
http://www.eracebike.com/streamliner.html

their 176mph ebike is more conventional,
http://www.eracebike.com/motorcycle.html

 

[teddillard]

Yeah, you're right. The streamliner page has been up for several years now. I'm not sure what-all they're up to now.

 

[major]

Roderick Wilde (past NEDRA president) claims to be an EV historian. Maybe he'd be worth talkin' to.

I just noticed Rod has a web site: http://www.hevf.org/ Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation

 

[teddillard]

Yes, cool project. He's been in touch with me, actually. Got me thinking about doing a similar list for drag racing.

 

[Ykick]

I could watch this all day:
[youtube]6pAtdxYSrMk[/youtube]

https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/fastest-woman-on-a-motorcycle-hits-241-mph-with-electricity-instead-of-gas-214854964.html