Yup, you read that title correctly: the World’s Fastest Motorcycle!! Well, not quite yet for the Castrol Rocket, but it looks like the 400 mpg glass ceiling for motorcycle speed records is going to be broken.
Officially the brain child of Matt Markstaller’s Hot Rod Conspiracy, with some help by Carpenter Racing Engines, the 1000 horsepower Castrol Rocket was designed for one purpose—beating the existing 376 mph record, set in 2010 by Rocky Robinson. The Castrol Rocket did visit Bonneville last August, but serious attempts at a speed record were thwarted by not not-so-good weather conditions and some tuning issues.
With so much of the focus these days going to the world’s fastest computer, or world’s fastest cell phone processor, it’s good to see people valuing what could be called the original “arms race”—the fastest thing on two wheels. And yet today’s motorcycles have perhaps more in common with rockets and airplanes than, for example, an original Curtiss V-8, which set the land speed record in 1907 at a “whopping” 136 mpg. Click here to learn more about the Castrol Rocket.
While here at Pete’s Cycle we cannot promise you’ll break any land records with our machines, we can promise that whether you are traveling by road, dirt or water, we can get you that adrenaline buzz you need to start out the new year. That is a guarantee we can stand behind. Make 2014 the year for Speed.
