Posted on May 8, 2012 02:28 by Steven Cohen
The Lawless Electric Drag Bike built by Orange Country Choppers and Lawless Industries and sponsored by Aaron Equipment and AEK Packaging and piloted by Larry "Spiderman" McBride made history-AGAIN! On May 4, 2012 with a National Electric Drag Racing Association record quarter mile run of 6.940. The Lawless Electric Drag Bike also broke the 200 MPH barrier peaking at 201.37 mph, making the Drag Bike the first electric vehicle to break 200 mph in the quarter mile!
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Posted on February 21, 2011 09:49 by
COLUMBUS, OH (wosu) - A group of Ohio State University engineering students is scrounging every penny to complete a project that has world-class implications. The Buckeye Electric Motorcycle Race Team is building a high performance, battery powered motorcycle. A group of students is working in a large laboratory at Ohio State University's Center for Automotive Research. The lab is essentially a large, high tech garage which houses among other things, the Buckeye Bullet the world's fastest electric vehicle. But these students are working on something a bit different; they're building a high performance electric motorcycle. Mechanical engineering graduate students Sage Wolfe and Angelica Liu are studying highly-detailed computer images of the bike-to-be. "We've been designing a mount to hold the motor on the frame," says Wolfe.
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Posted on February 15, 2011 06:15 by
What a cold harsh winter it has been for all drag racers! The 2011 season is just weeks away from getting started beginning with the MiRock Series opener on March 19-20 2011 at Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham North Carolina. All of us here at Dragbike Live are ready! The off season for the staff has been full of infrastructure improvements with this website along with our video tools and much more. In the next few days I will release additional information on many of the new features coming and explain more in depth our plans for the 2011.
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Posted on February 14, 2011 14:06 by
AEK Packaging Equipment recently sponsored a hockey game for Paul Teutel, Sr and his staff at Orange County Choppers in appreciation for all their hard work in building the Lawless Electric drag bike that AEK Packaging sponsored last year. The Segment was aired on the Discovery Channels American Chopper series last Monday, February 7th. Aaron Equipment recently had OCC build a Chicago Black Hawk bike that is being raffled off to support the Special Kids Network, Orange County Chopper Foundation, and the Blackhawks Charities.
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Posted on November 22, 2010 07:32 by Aaron Equipment Co, Inc.
The historic accomplishment was recorded at Virginia Motorsports Park near Petersburg, Va., Sept. 24. Legendary drag racer Larry "Spiderman" McBride rode the 363-volt, 4,000-amp electric bike to a 7.469-second, 177 miles per hour quarter-mile pass, shattering the existing world record of 7.82 seconds at 168 mph.
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Posted on October 5, 2010 07:40 by
Bensenville, IL – September, 2010 – The Orange County Chopper’s team has done it again. They have designed and built a bike that has broken the record for the fastest electric-powered drag bike in the world. Yes, we said “electric-powered” motorcycle. The historical accomplishment was recorded at Virginia Motorsports Park in Petersburg, VA on September 24, 2010. The “Lawless Electric Drag Bike” was sponsored by Aaron Equipment Company and AEK Packaging. Larry “Spiderman” McBride piloted the 363 volt, 4000 amp electric bike to a 7.469 second ET, 177 MPH quarter mile pass breaking the 176 mph land speed record for a battery-powered motorcycle.
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Posted on August 27, 2010 11:06 by
Orange County Choppers, Lawless Industries, Aaron Equipment and AEK Packaging Equipment recently unveiled the Lawless Electric Drag Bike at the Sturgis Bike Week in South Dakota. The Sturgis Rally Week is held annually, usually in the first full week of August and generally gathers over 400,000 attendees to bike week.
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