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Jaw-dropping drag action
08:30 (GMT+2), Fri, 27 July 2012

The Lawless Electric Rocket drag bike recently achieved a National Electric Drag Racing Association record run of 6.94 seconds at 324 km/h over a quarter mile.

INTERNATIONAL MOTORING NEWS - Top motorcycle drag racer Larry "Spiderman" McBride has entered the record books once again by piloting the Lawless Electric Rocket to a National Electric Drag Racing Association record run of 6.94 seconds at 324km/h (201.37mph) over a quarter mile or 402 metres from a standing start.

It's not the first time that the Rocket has broken records at the Virginia Motorsports Park near Petersburg, VA. McBride managed a time of 7.469 seconds at 284km/h (177mph) with a 363V version of the drag bike in September 2010. At the time, the build team said that once they'd found a way to put more horsepower to the pavement, the vehicle should be able to achieve 321 km/h (200mph).

Ohio's Lawless Industries and Orange County Choppers is the custom bike shop responsible for making it possible with a newly designed 355V/14.2kWh Li-ion battery pack weighing in at 121kg (268lbs) and packing 992.9kW (1 350hp) that was built by Derek Barger of High Tech Systems. The bike features an electric DC Drive System, a 13" diameter, 36Vt GE motor with a peak output of about 725 kW (1 000 hp) built by NEDRA veteran Dennis Berube and a 4 000A Zilla 4K EHV motor controller designed and built by Otmar Ebenhoech. Shawn Lawless said the ultimate goal is to get under six seconds and over 410km/h (255mph).