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New Motorcycle World Speed Record, 367.382 mph

Posted by kdawson on from the mile-and-back dept.

An anonymous reader, apparently a member of the BUB racing team, wrote to let us know that on Thursday, their crew set the new ultimate motorcycle world speed record at 367.382 mph with the BUB Seven Streamliner at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The Seven is powered by a 3 Liter, turbocharged, 16-valve V4 engine that produces a claimed 500 hp and 400 lb-ft of torque at 8500 rpm. The pilot, Chris Carr, hit 380 mph during the run.

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  1. "Ultimate" by ari_j · · Score: 5, Funny

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  2. Re:And this is on slashdot why? by master5o1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the article doesn't tell you is that the motorbike was running Linux and the driver was thinking about the best car analogy while he was driving.

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  3. Car Analogy? by similar_name · · Score: 4, Funny

    I need a car analogy before I can understand this.

  4. Re:Not mentioned in the article... by Matey-O · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny thing that...you drop it off a building and it wouldn't go this fast. You need downforce and traction. Dude's got balls of Depleted Uranium.

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  5. Re:And this is on slashdot why? by John+Hasler · · Score: 4, Funny

    My wife says it's boring because it wasn't done by three guys in Hamtramck who bolted a V8 onto a Harley and made a fairing out of oil drums.

    I find it interesting because it is about engineering. "IndyCars", on the other hand, are boring. All the cars are identical so it's just about the drivers. Who cares about the drivers?

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  6. Re:For those SI unit addicts. by Eudial · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who uses SI anyway?

    For those of us in the civilized world, it's 116,730,878 smoots / fortnight.

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  7. Re:For those SI unit addicts. by Hojima · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does it make me a bad person if the first thought that crossed my mind when seeing this article was wondering how far the guy would fly if I pulled a trip wire the second he hit 360? Yea, I think so.

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  8. Re:For those SI unit addicts. by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alternatively, 532.25 attoparsecs per picocentury.

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  9. Re:For those SI unit addicts. by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 5, Funny

    To give you a more concrete feel of just how fast that is, it's about 3.25922905 * 10^-67 Universe diameters per Planck time.

  10. Re:Crosswinds by Animaether · · Score: 4, Funny

    When you go that fast, there's no point in being scared of much.

    I think Jeremy Clarkson put it well when he wrote the following about the Bugatti Veyron at top speed:

    Happily, stopping distances become irrelevant because you won't see the obstacle in the first place. By the time you know it was there, you'll have gone through the windscreen, through the Pearly Gates and be half way across God's breakfast table.

    ( From: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article596580.ece )