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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaime View Post
    Not trying to downplay 218, because it's really fast. But, to put it in perspective, my fifteen year old Hayabusa could do 196 straight out of the showroom. A $3500 turbo kit later and you have 220.

    In the early 2000's when I used to be into this stuff, Lee Shierts did 250 at Maxton, which is only a mile long with limited shutdown room. A streetable bike did 272 last year. The crazy part about Maxton is that your top speed isn't limited by power, but by brakes and craziness. You can only go so fast because the shutdown area has a turn a half mile into it.
    Hi Jamie,
    Gasoline is many time more dense energy storage than batteries. so catching gas with electric in land speed racing is a ways off.

    Last summer our electric motorcycle with rider Carlin Dunne was the fastest up the pike peak mountain beating every gas bike the showed up. Same bike as Land speed record with different fairings and rear sprocket.
    Check out this link:
    http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/raci...-race-results/

    Some people say the it was because electric doesn't loose power with altitude. But if you look at the sector times, he was also the fastest at the bottom of the mountain.
    Bob
    Last edited by Bob_n_Cincy; 06-08-2014 at 11:36 AM.

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