Lawless Electric Rocket Sets Drag Bike Record

Lawless Rocket Assembly at OCC via gizmag

Lawless Industries of Ohio teamed up with Orange County Choppers to produce this drag racing bike, the Lawless Electric Rocket. Larry “Spiderman” McBride piloted it to a record 6.94 second 201 mph quarter mile run at Virginia Motorsports Park. The Rocket uses a 13 inch DC motor, a 355 volt lithium-ion battery pack from A123 systems and a 4000 amp Zilla controller. The bike is listed at 1350 hp, but can probably put down more based on the voltage of the batteries and the current rating of the controller. Here’s a video of the run. The engine noises at the beginning are from a car in the background.


Head over to gizmag for more details and pictures of the bike.

The Jade Warrior Drag Motorcycle

The Jade Warrior was built by British motorcycle racer Angus MacPhail in his garage. It’s powered by a 4 cylinder Ford Cosworth engine that has a roots type supercharger that produced an estimated 400-500 horsepower. The center of the custom frame is riveted and bonded aluminum and the front end has specially designed ground effects to keep the bike stable at 200+ mph speeds.


Head over to Dragzine.com for all the details and history of the Jade Warrior.

Sources: Dragzine.com via Jalopnik

Jay Leno rides the Mission Motors Mission-R

Mission Motors brought their Mission-R electric superbike to Jay Leno’s garage. The Mission-R is one of the best performing electric motorcycles currently made. It was a clean paper design and it has a mind boggling 14 kilowatt-hours of energy storage and a 120 kilowatt / 161 horsepower alternating current motor. This results in legitimate 600cc sport bike equivalent performance. The bike is really well presented since Mission sent a knowledgeable sales guy to Leno who had some good questions for him. I was actually surprised at how well read Jay was about electric vehicles. Head over to Autoblog Green for a high resolution gallery of the Mission-R as well.


Source: Jay Leno’s Garage

Casey Stoner on Sliding MotoGP Bikes

Two-time MotoGP World Champion, Casey Stoner, has a unique riding style in that he is able to do full lean high speed slides. Let me start off by saying that there is a big difference between competition drifting and sliding a little bit to help get around a corner and go fast. Stoner is one of the few riders who still uses sliding as a technique to improve times in the age of electronic traction control and it probably comes from his days racing dirt track. He says it’s difficult to explain because each corner has a different way to initiate a slide. It’s a technique that has to be consciously initiated and holds a lot of risks. Head over to Asphalt and Rubber to read Stoner’s entire explanation of the technique and its benefits. Red Bull also posted this video of him talking about racing while you get to watch him slide his Moto GP bike at full lean at 1000 frames per second.


Source: Red Bull on YouTube

Ducati MS4R by Paulo Tesio

Meet the Ducati MS4R built in Italy by Paulo Tesio. The bike started life as a Ducati Monster S4R. Paulo made CAD models of the MS4R so that a CNC machine could make the foam molds used to lay the fiberglass pieces. I really like the girder style fork covers. It also has a new rear seat frame that is interchangeable with the stock one. Paulo went on to say that he might produce more of these kits if there was a demand for it.

Head over to Racing Cafe to see the rest of the pictures.