Ride onboard as Chip Yates hits 200mph

Last summer, Chip Yates took his electric superbike to Bonneville to set a new outright speed record for electric motorcycles. He couldn’t quite match Lightining’s new 215.9mph record, but he did break 200mph, setting four FIM records in the process. Here, for the first time, is onboard footage of that top speed. Weren’t electric motorcycles supposed to be silent?

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