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On October 19th 2002, on the Raron airstrip in Switzerland, and riding the Exotic Thermo Engineering/Kamikaze's rocket powered mountain bike, the pilot Donald Pottier broke the world speed record for a bicycle with 242,61 km/h (150,8 mph).

He reached that speed after only 250 meters of acceleration.




The bike is designed by Arnold Neracher (www.swissrocketman.com)

It's powered by two hydrogen peroxide rockets producing a total thrust of 3000N (660lbs).

This bike could go up to 300 km/h !




The previous records were :




-236,67km/h on the ETE-Kamikaze's bike powered by a 1800N thrust H2O2/JP-4 rocket engine / Alec Beney / October 3rd 1998 / Payerne, Switzerland

-212,139km/h (downhill) / Christian Taillefer / 1998 / Vars-Chabrières, France

-203km/h on the ETE-Kamikaze's bike powered by a single 1300N thrust H2O2 rocket engine / Julian Bartlett / July 16th 1995 / Raron, Switzerland




Motor-paced record :

(Motor pacing is a type of human powered record where a pace vehicle is modified by adding a tail fairing to keep the wind off the cyclist who is riding behind it).




-268,831km/h / Fred Rompelberg / October 3rd 1995 / Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, U.S.A.

Current absolute speed record on a bicycle.

But in that case, the rider is not exposed to the wind blast.

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