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

    Alternatively, 532.25 attoparsecs per picocentury.

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  4. 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.