Despite two past unsuccessful attempts to set a new world speed record on a motorcycle, Triumph plans this month to return to the dry salt lake Bonneville and for the third time try to beat the current world record (set in 2010) motorcycle speed, which is 605,698 kilometers hour.
Triumph began its preparation for breaking this record in 2013, but the first attempt ended very poorly. In fact, even before the test began, the motorcycle engine caught fire, on which Jason DiSalvo planned to set a new record. A second attempt was made last year. This time the pilot Guy Martin was “guilty”, who less than three weeks before the start of the tests was seriously injured in the Superbike race.
Pilot Guy Martin
Apparently, realizing his guilt, Martin promised that he would still ride a Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner - a 7.8-meter carbon-Kevlar monster based on two methanol turbocharged Triumph Rocket III engines with a total capacity of 1000 horsepower - at whatever cost.
Here will be the installation of a new speed record for motorcycles.
Martin plans to beat the speed record of 605,698 kilometers per hour, set by Rocky Robinson “on horseback” on Top Oil-Ack Attack Streamliner in 2010. Tests at a special Bonneville racetrack in Utah (USA) will begin in the coming weeks.
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