Articles for Land Speed Racing
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Motorcycle racer Valerie Thompson receives 2011 Community Hero award by American Woman Riders Association.
Friday, December 09, 2011
Team AF1 Racing/Punisher entered the 200 club at the Texas Mile after posting 200.8 mph with its AF1 Racing sponsored/Aprilia RSV Factory V-Twin.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Valerie Thompson ran a personal best top speed of 201.01 mph with her Alter/Bivins Land Speed Racing Team prepared BMW S1000RR Superbike at the 8th Annual BUB Speed Trials.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
On September 1st, 2011 Brough Superior broke the AMA 1350-A-VG Speed Record at Bonneville Salt Flats with an average speed of 124.98 mph.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Bill Warner set a new speed record at the Texas Mile aboard his 1299cc turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa, outpacing the previous record by 5.3 mph.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Aaron Wilson set a 2-way average speed record of 195.264 mph in the 1650cc A-PF class at the Bonneville World Finals.
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Top 1 Ack Attack streamliner is once again the "World's Fastest Motorcycle" after Rocky Robinson piloted it to an incredible 376.156 mph this past weekend on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Foremost Insurance sponsored Leslie Porterfield was accepted by Guinness World Records as the Fastest Woman in the World on a Motorcycle, a title that was previously held for over thirty years.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Salt Star Leslie Porterfield will join other legendary salt racers Chris Carr and Denis Manning up on stage at the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Breakfast at Daytona.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Motorcycle USA talked to Denis Manning, the man behind BUB 7, aka the World's Fastest Motorcycle, at the recent Easyriders Bike Show in Sacramento, California.
Monday, January 18, 2010
The World's fastest motorcyclists will be featured at the 22nd Annual AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum breakfast in Daytona on March 5th.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Pending ratification by AMA Racing and the FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme), Chris Carr is once again the fastest man in the world on two wheels, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) reports.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Chris Carr set a new motorcycle land speed record yesterday on the Bonneville Salt aboard the BUB Racing Streamliner Seven.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Mission Motors announced today that its zero-emissions Mission One electric superbike has claimed the national AMA top speed record for an electric motorcycle.
Friday, September 11, 2009
British racing journalist Alan Cathcart has set four officially recognized FIM World Land Speed Records at the BUB Speed Trials held on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The four speed records were on machines fitted with PIRELLI racing tires.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
BST-sponsored Leslie Porterfield won the Top Time Award at the sixth annual BUB Speed Trials, a motorcycle-only event at the Bonneville Salt Flats that certifies AMA- and FIM-sanctioned national and world speed records.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Enabling a pair of CBR600RRs to achieve record-breaking speeds quickly and complete their runs safely, super-light, ultra-strong Blackstone Tek (BST) wheels entered the 200 MPH club at Bonneville Speed Week and broke five world records.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Land speed racer Leslie Porterfield has been named the AMA Racing Female Rider of the Year.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
MotorcycleUSA fills you in on what you missed at this year's International Motorcycle Speed Trials at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
The big news coming out of Bonneville this year was the epic three-way streamliner battle for the world record, but there were some other interesting things running up and down the salt this past September.
