Lambky Liner
The Lambky Liner is a motorcycle land-speed record streamliner designed by Navy veteran and Vincent motorcycle restorer Max Lambky from Kansas, United States. It reached a top recorded speed of at the 2007 International Motorcycle Speed Trials, and an estimated in second gear before a supercharger spindle broke and spoiled a run in 2008. Design and construction. World record holder Don Vesco consulted with Lambky on several features of streamliner design that Lambky utilized, including hub-center steering. The streamliner is powered by dual alcohol-burning supercharged Vincent Motorcycles pushrod V-twin engines, built in 1949 and  1952. The total displacement is almost 2,000 cc running on alcohol, developing c. . Total weight with rider and fuel is . Frontal area is . As of 2012, nine iterations of the streamliner had been built by Lambky, including a sidecar configuration. Development costs were reported as $100,000 in 1997, and over $150,000 by 2008. Riders. Riders included Don Angel, the first, who was recorded going through the timing lights backwards in 2006, and Hartmut Weidelich, a German who also rebuilt the engines. Records. The streamliner won an award at the 2005 Speed Trials by BUB at Bonneville Speedway in  the antique division at . In September, 2010, it set a new Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) record of in the SCS-PBF class; SCS stands for special construction (hub steering, two engine) streamliner; PBF stands for piston, blown, (alcohol/nitro) fuel.