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Green Speed Air Motorcycle Photo Gallery
A group of industrial design college students come up with an air-powered land speed racebike design, with hopes of a 110 mph top speed.
Green Speed Air Motorcycle
A rotary air engine from Melbourne engineer Angelo Di Pietro will power the Green Speed.
The present Green Speed design calls for an odd looking 1:1 gear ratio, but with plans to race for a land speed record the team is contemplating gearing it even more aggressively for top speed.
The engine gets its power from the compressed air stored in a pair of high-pressure tanks, located under the spine of the frame.
Green Speed Air Motorcycle
Yi Yuan and Curlis are still game for a run at Lake Gairdner, but admit a serious LSR attempt would need to be built around a newer frame.
Designed as land speed racer, there’s no headlight, brake light or indicator lights to be found.
Lecturer Simon Curlis came up the Green Speed project, with the goal to set a land speed record at Lake Gairdner, a dry lake bed in Southern Australia.
Edwin Yi Yuan is a 23-year-old student at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech), who worked on the group Green Speed project in an industrial design course.
A very basic prototype, can the team turn the Green Speed idea into a LSR reality?
The industrial design class built their prototype around this stripped down Suzuki.
Coming up with the Green Speed Air motorcycle concept was a group effort at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech.
