When one looks for the benefits of a motorcycle or a car, it is usual to meet the term “Mile room”. In Spain we are perhaps more familiar with the figure from 0 to 100 km/ho how long it takes to travel a kilometer from standing.
However, the mile room, those 402 meters is the usual measure that is taken as a finish line in the Drag Races. Yes, the Acceleration races So famous in the United States in which we see artifacts of all kinds to launch from standing at impossible speeds and, in some cases, let out a parachute once the finish line has passed.
As with cars, in the world of motorcycling it is also competed in these particular races. The most striking use modified motorcycles that, such as You can see in this videothey have a huge distance between wheel and wheel and gigantic tires. The objective: maximum traction and aerodynamics to achieve the highest speed in the shortest possible time.
If this does not seem striking enough, you still have to meet Graham Sykes, a pilot who has managed to cover the 402 meters of the mile room in six seconds reaching a tip of 252 km/h. Figures that become difficult to assimilate and impossible to believe for a steam motorcycle.
That?
At 252 km/h with water as fuel
“We did the first 18 meters in 0.73 seconds, 100 meters in 1.99, 201 meters at 3.2 and 402 meters in 6.05”
With these words, as the one who describes the figures pointed on an excelll sheet, Graham Sykes had his experience aboard the “Force of Nature”the faster steam motorcycle ever built, they collect in Motorpasion motorcycle.
Sykes explained at the end of the test he had achieved beat your own record and had reached 201 meters faster than anyone aboard a steam motorcycle. The eighth mile, those just over 200 meters, is another of the usual distances in this type of racing.
Although it is far from the world record on a motorcycle Dragster (less than five seconds and 469 km/h of peak speed) the merit is double because it is built in the house garage only for exhibition purposes.
And warns: “We are very close to running the 402 meters in five seconds. We really want to finish the great engine at the end of this year, with 120 liters of water and three seconds of power. “Because the current motorcycle only has a water tank of 88 liters and generates its maximum power for 1.9 seconds.
Yes, it’s talking about water. Because that is a steam motorcycle, right? In which it moves with water.
How do you do it?
They explain in Motorpasion motorcycle that the system is as simple as water, heat and pressure. To heat the water they use hydrogenated vegetable oil to produce pressure. This accumulates until being expelled by a Laval nozzle. At that time, overheated steam is in charge of throwing the motorcycle at more than 250 km/h.
In fact, according to Sykes, the motorcycle can reach up to 320 km/h (once the mile room is exceeded) and is trying to increase the capacity up to 130 liters of tank and with two heating pipes Take the water up to 200ºC of temperature and generate 30 pressure bars.
Objective: break the barrier of six seconds in 402 meters.
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