New bike speed record

The Ack Attack streamliner has set a new motorcycle land speed record at the Utah Bonneville Salt Flats with a speed of 342.797mph.

The run took place during the AMA/FIM International Motorcycle Speed Trails Sunday, and beats the 16-year-old previous record by nearly 20mph. The bike is powered by dual Suzuki Hayabusa motors, and the first run on the 11-mile course produced a speed though the one-mile traps of 344.673.

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But for the record, a second run had to be completed in the opposite direction within two hours, and it was the retrun run 55 minutes later of 340.922 that produced a world-record avaerage of 342.797mph.

Rider Rocky Robinson and the team believe they should be able to top that speed before the speed meet ends on Thursday, and two other bikes are perhaps capable of toppling the record before then. Sam Wheeler has a Kawasaki ZX-11-engined streamliner which has already run in the 330s in worse conditions, while meet organiser Dennis Manning also has a streamliner, which will be piloted by AMA Grand National Dirt Tracker Chris Carr.