motorcycle engineering

  • Leaping Lena: The daring Australians who built the world’s fastest sidecar

    Leaping Lena: The daring Australians who built the world’s fastest sidecar

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    John Milton looks at how a handful of young Australians took on the world to win the sidecar landspeed record. The nickname ‘Leaping Lena’ has been used countless times in all manner of ways – a woman who jumped out of a Philadelphia window to avoid police arrest in 1920, pigeons, racehorses, cars, trains, even…

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  • World’s fastest monowheel at Sammy Miller Museum

    World’s fastest monowheel at Sammy Miller Museum

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    The latest addition to the ever-growing Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum is ‘Trojan’, the world’s fastest monowheel. The UK Monowheel Team, made up of six dedicated enthusiasts (for ‘dedicated enthusiasts’ read ‘bonkers madmen’!) from Lincoln, Nottingham and Northamptonshire, designed, developed and built the extraordinary machine over a period of ten years. It’s the team’s fourth monowheel…

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