The Killacycle Racing Team just set a new speed record in their class (three wheeled streamlined electric motorcycles) and for the first time in history an electric vehicle had the fastest speed at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials event. I don’t know much beyond a couple postings from the Killacycle…
KillaCycle Racing has posted a few more pictures and statements. The short story is, that while the rain has let up the organizers will decide on Monday whether to cancel the event. Post by KillaCycle Racing. Post by KillaCycle Racing. Post by KillaCycle Racing.
KillaCycle Racing is back at the Bonneville Salt Flats for “Mike Cook’s ShootOut”. Racing was originally scheduled to start on Friday ..but.. heck Eva wrote it pretty well, so rather than rephrase it, I’ll paste it in here. I will note that, as Eva says, Drayson Racing is there as…
It’s land speed racing time at the Bonneville Salt Flats and I see from Facebook that both Lightning Motorcycles and KillaCycle racing were there. In this post I’ll cover what KillaCycle posted on Facebook. The big takeaway is that they made it into the 201+ miles/hr club, it’s not clear…
As arbitrary as our calendar is, this is a new year (by the way we reckon time) and, well, here’s my thoughts about what we’ll see in the coming year in electric racing. Overall I think we’ve seen great leaps over the last three years of electric racing, and I see that…
A couple days ago Eva Hakansson, builder of the KillaJoule and the better half of the KillaCycle team, reported having made an over-200 miles/hr run at Bonneville but achieving an average speed well under 200. As of Tuesday they were intent on making more runs on Wednesday and today, and setting…
This week is the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials, the AMA/FIM certified land speed racing event on the Bonneville Salt Flats. This year the KillaJoule team has returned to the salt and is having great success, already setting a record and achieving a 213.190 miles/hr run. The KillaJoule is a full…
KillaCycle Racing took the KillaJoule to the Loring Timing Association speed trials last week, setting a top speed of 188.063 miles/hr. The KillaJoule is a fully streamlined electric motorcycle. In postings on their Facebook page (see links below) Eva explained that “KillaJoule ran mechanically absolutely perfectly. It ran straight as…
KillaJoule Racing just announced their next event is the Loring Land Speed Record event at the former Loring Air Force Base. The racing action is from July 13-15. The event is formatted differently from Bonneville. Where Bonneville is on salt, and records the average time over a mile (flying mile),…
