Triumph Rocket motorcycle on focus on for 400 mph record

Triumph has built a motorcycle it says can go 400 mph, but Mother Nature might not give it the chance to prove it.

The motorcycle manufacturer has announced plans to visit for the two-wheel land speed record this August at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats with its Triumph Rocket. The 25.5-foot-long streamliner is built with carbon Kevlar and powered by two 1.5-liter Triumph Rocket III 3-cylinder engines that have been tuned and turbocharged by Carpenter Racing to put out a combined 1,000 hp running on methanol.

The rider sits before the engine within an enclosed, recumbent position, and Uk Television and racer personality Man Martin is registered to fill the chair. The bicycle sits on two, swingarm-suspended wheels shod in Goodyear Land Speed Special wheels, and has a pair of small, retractable stabilizers to carry it as it starts and stops vertical.

Triumph motorcycles held the record for all but in regards to a full month between 1955 and 1970, and its most iconic model, the Bonneville, was named as a tribute to its success. The mark stands at 376 mph, arranged by Rocky Robinson with a Suzuki-powered motorcycle in 2010 2010.

In development since 2013, the Triumph Rocket has recently tested on the flats and is scheduled to hit them again this month. However, The Sodium Lake Tribune reports that the remains of mudslides from recent flooding coupled with rainfall and sodium depletion over the flats have left the surface in such bad condition that there may not be a good extend of salt designed for record efforts this summer.

Organizers of the annual Bonneville Speed Week event, which was washed out in 2014, will decide this weekend if they can just do it with this year’s edition, currently on the calendar for August 8-14. Triumph has had to delay this month’s screening once due to weather already, but continues to be focusing on an August 24-27 windowpane for the Rocket’s run.

If mama opens it is up to her.