British team aiming to reclaim record in half-chopper, half-bike land-speed machine
Alex Macfadzean sits in the cockpit Credit: Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press British engineers will attempt to regain a motorbike speed record the UK has failed to overtake for 84 years, as designers look to an engine used by the military for added power. In 1937, English racer Eric Fernihough rode his supercharged Brough Superior motorbike at 169mph to set a new world land speed record for a two-wheel vehicle. He died the following year attempting to win back his accolade from German competition, and remains the last Briton to hold the motorbike speed record. A new attempt with a British ride...
Source: telegraph.co.uk