New Motorcycle World Speed Record, 367.382 mph

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.

Comments

For those SI unit addicts.

[Polarina]

367.38200 mph = 591.244017 km/h

Re:For those SI unit addicts.

[selven]

You're clearly not a good "SI addict". The correct answer is 164.23 meters per second.

Re:not a record

[SilverHatHacker]

Apparently, the controls were taken from an F-4 fighter jet. But if you look at some of the pictures underneath the shell it looks slightly more motorcycle-like.

Motorcycle?

[siddesu]

As a biker with a long graying beard, lemme point out that whatever that thing on the picture is, it damn sure ain't a motorcycle.

Re:Motorcycle?

[Known Nutter]

define:motorcycle
a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame

I do, however, agree with you both. That ain't no motorcycle.

Re:Motorcycle?

[cyphercell]

The monicker "streamliner" defines the bike as a different class of motorcycle with historical precendent.

If this is the car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThrustSSC and this is the trike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_America, then I don't see why the streamliner can't be the bike.

Instead of criticizing, you might take pride in the fact that the motorcycle land speed is still the last that isn't set with jet engines dragging rubber across the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_land_speed_record

Re:interesting stuff is in links from the second l

[ffreeloader]

When doing a LSR run at Bonneville you have something like a half hour between runs. They let you refuel and check the vehicle over between runs for safety reasons. If you have a problem and can't make it back to the starting line on time you're toast. You one-way run doesn't count for anything.

Re:interesting stuff is in links from the second l

[MachDelta]

They'll probably turn it by hand, most land speed vehicles have a tiny, tiny amount of steering angle to keep a sudden twitch on the driver's part from turning into a two mile long barrel roll.

Re:And this is on slashdot why?

[John Hasler]

> I held that opinion for quite a while, but later came to amend it. I find it
> even more boring when it's like the Formula One races were for several years,
> with Nissan coming in 1st and 2nd every time because they came up with a
> particularly effective turbocharger.

That isn't even about drivers. It's about money. Useful stuff, but who wants to watch it?

Of course, now that they have taken to deliberately crashing cars maybe it will become interesting again, in a morbid, hockey-like way.

Re:"Ultimate"

[Anonymous Coward]

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

It refers to a specific SCTA class, and has nothing to do with your grammar pedantry. Good (uninformed) try, though chap!

Re:not a record

[Bob_Geldof]

False. The density of air does not change with speed. What you may be trying to refer to is called the Reynolds number, a dimensionless quantity that relates fluid velocity with viscosity and characteristic length-scale. This is what allows the Mythbusters to make their own wind tunnel using water for the "Tail-gate Up or Down" episode. By setting the velocity of the water to compensate for the increased viscosity compared to air, they can get pretty close to simulating highway speeds for their model truck (characteristic length scales having been taken into consideration as well).

The only thing that would be pretty dense at those speeds would be this anonymous coward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number