24th April 2009 saw the second Alternative Energy Drag Racing Event at Santa Pod. While Russ's UK e85 standing quarter record (10.86s) from last year was well beaten by Adam Child from MCN running a Kawasaki ZZR1400, the team Inzane Bikes ran against each other in a biofuel minitwins only drag race. Adam Palfreman put in the fastest time on the team's Ducati 800ss at 12.152s (113.11mph) with the Laverda 650 only slightly behind with a very respectable 12.191s (111.16mph).
Whilst the MCN bike is undoubtedly the fastest road bike available, running it on e85 pump fuel (and yes, it is cheaper than petrol) gave it sufficient extra power to put it "into the 10s" with a run of 9.9509s (145.22mph) which is the first time a showroom bike has run sub 10s in the UK!
Ian Calvert (Laverda 650) and Adam Palfreman (Ducati 800SS) burning... vegetables!
Tim Keeton from Impact Images gave us permission to use the pictures he took for MCN. Click this to see his pictures:
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Rupert Paul, the thoughtful UK "Bike" journalist has written about Inzane in Aussie MCN:
Click here for a pdf (6MB) of the November 2008 Australian MCN article
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Following his Thunderbike UK ride at Cadwell Park, Michael Neeves from MCN wrote an excellent article on the Inzane project.
Click here for a pdf (2MB) of the August 2008 MCN article
The bike even made it onto the front of MCN!
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Russ Joyner (www.twowheeltechnics.com) gets stuck in to the 650. Fortunately, he knows how these bikes go back together better than anyone else in the UK!
Believe it or not, this bike will be out in the BMCRC Minitwins race later this month at Mallory.
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