The world’s fastest electric motorbike in the world (unfaired) – when Nottingham University and MADMAX Race Team join forces, you can expect serious results. The Nottingham University team of talented PhD students engineered and built this incredible racing machine under the leadership of Dr Miquel Gimeno-Fabra.
Following the tragic death of Daley Mathison at the Isle of Man TT races in 2019, Dr Gimeno-Fabra and the MADMAX Race Team owner, Zef Eisenberg, vowed to make Daley’s three-time podium-winning motorbike the fastest electric bike in the world as a tribute to the racer.
After a full rebuild, and extensive work on the batteries and motors, along with dyno time, the bike was producing more power than any other Isle of Man TT Zero bike and conventional sit-on electric bike in the world.
In September 2019, at the Straightliners ACU/FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) World Speed Records event held at Elvington, North Yorkshire, multiple speeds-record holder Zef Eisenberg set four new FIM world speed records for electric motorbikes (unfaired) and 1 ACU speed record (all five subject to final FIM/ACU ratification). Those records were: the FIM Flying Kilometre record of 185.103 mph (with best one-way speed of 194.086 mph, with GPS peak speeds of 197 mph); FIM Flying Quarter Mile; FIM Standing Quarter; FIM Standing Mile; ACU Flying Quarter Mile.
2020 will see MADMAX Race Team take electric bikes to a whole new level of power & speed.
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The ‘most powerful, lightest and smallest V8 motorbike in the world’ – designed from the ground up to fulfil that goal. The specially designed flat-plane 3000cc V8 is the same as a Ferrari engine, allowing it to rev to 11,000 rpm, it sounds amazing and delivers an incredible aspirated 480hp, yet it weighs only 80 kg.
The uniquely designed 6-speed sequential gearbox with hi-torque gears and counter-rotating slipper-clutch works well in cancelling out the centrifugal forces of the inline engine. The bike is the same length as a Ducati Diavel, a similar weight to a conventional motorbike, but dripping with high tech parts, such as ceramic coated exhausts, carbon fibre tank and tail, motec ECU and far more.
With expected speeds of 225+ mph, this is a bike that will push the boundaries of performance to a whole new level — designed and built in Britain by the MADMAX Race Team, who are renowned for developing and racing the world’s most extreme machines using the best engineers in the industry.
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Both motorcycles on display courtesy of Mr Zef Eisenberg on 30th October 2019 in celebration of Zef Eisenberg winning the 2019 Simms Medal for his ‘multiple speed record exploits on two and four wheels exemplifies “the spirit of adventure” which is at the heart of [the] Medal’.