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FIM Land Speed World Records are set at sanctioned Land Speed Racing (LSR) events globally.. Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials is the AMA Land Speed Grand Championship for LSR record attempts in the United States. How to use this National Record list. AMA National Records go back to 1958. Some classes are no longer available.
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Starting in the 1940s, Munro set a number of New Zealand speed records. The first came in 1940 when he set an open road record of 120.8mph; that record held for 12 years. In 1957, he set a New.
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The AMA Land Speed Grand Championship, also known as the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials, is the premier motorcycle land-speed racing event in the world. This AMA-sanctioned event, which also includes Fédération Internationale de Motocylisme recognition, offers competitors the opportunity to clinch AMA national and FIM world records aboard.
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So Spirit of America is a motorcycle. 8. Cal Rayborn's 1970 'Godzilla' Harley - 265.492mph. You wouldn't have thought that Harley engine would be the ideal basis for a land speed record bike, even back in 1970, but Cal Rayborn's dedication to the American firm defined his career in every type of racing he entered; he was one of the.
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That record went on to stand until 2014 when Munro's son John convinced the American Motorcycle Association to correct a calculation error, bumping Munro's record to 184.087 MPH. While many land-speed racers have refrained from competing in the S-A 1,000cc class specifically to avoid breaking Munro's record, a group of students from Northern.
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A World Record attempt for a given class can only be made with a motorcycle where the engine size is within the capacity limits for that class. A World Record is only valid for the class which corresponds to the capacity of the engine. 605.698 km/h. All categories record over 1 kilometer. 120. World records to beat. 1918. Year of the oldest record
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The area in front of the seat: The rider's legs and feet shall be protected by a leg shield with a minimum width of 400 mm. Floor (foot) boards minimum length: 350 mm. Maximum rear wheel rim diameter: 16''. Automatic 50 cc (A3) Automatic 50 cc / Moped 50 cc. Motorcycles driven by an engine capacity of up to 50 cc and having an automatic.
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Introduction. The Gyronaut X-1 was built by Bob Leppan, Alex Tremulis and Jim Bruflodt during one of the most exciting periods in history. It captured the absolute Land Speed Record for motorcycles in 1966 and held that crown throughout the remainder of the decade and into the start of the 1970's.
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The pursuit of speed on land continues. Rocky Robinson holds the current world speed record for motorcycles. He's gone 376 mph while riding the Top 1 Ack Attack—at first glance, a totally.
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On this run, Munro set the land speed record of 296 km/h for a motorcycle under 1000 cc, a record that remains unbroken. The original 1920 Scout was barely capable of a top speed of 96 km/h, but Munro continuously tuned the engine, making every single component as light as possible by hand, and installed it in a streamlined chassis of his own.
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This is the original land speed record certificate issued for Munro's 1967 world record. Years later, Munro's son, John noticed the combined average speed was miscalculated and got it corrected!
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Ack Attack. The TOP 1 Ack Attack is a specially constructed land-speed record streamliner motorcycle that, as of March 2013, has held the record for world's fastest motorcycle since recording a two-way average speed of 605.697 km/h (376.363 mph) on September 25, 2010, in the Cook Motorsports Top Speed Shootout at Bonneville Speedway, Utah.
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Englishman Eric Fernihough finally wrestled the record from Henne riding a Brough Superior at 169.68mph (273.244kmh) in 1937, only to be killed a year later attempting to regain the record from.
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More than 50 years after the first modern, fully streamlined motorcycle was designed and concepted, Rocky Robinson of the USA broke the record for the fastest land speed on a motorcycle. Riding his Top Oil-Ack Attack on 25 September 2010, Robinson achieved an average speed of 605.697 km/h (376.363 mi/h) over one measured kilometer (0.6 miles.
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Millyard and Cole's new land speed record for a tandem motorcycle was set at 183.50mph - or 295.31kph - as certified by Guinness World Records, with Millyard as pilot and Cole as passenger on the 3km-long runway of the Elvington Airfield in North Yorkshire. The British pair's record beat that of the American duo of Erin Hunter and Andy.
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THE CELEBRATION RECREATING MOTORCYCLE HISTORY. In 1967, 68-year-old New Zealand native Burt Munro made motorcycle history by setting a new official land speed record - 184.087 mph with unofficial top speed of 205.67 mph—when he raced his heavily modified 1920 Indian Scout Streamliner across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, U.S.A.