MADMAX team rider Zef Eisenberg raced in to the record books at the weekend (21-22 September) setting four new motorcycle records at the Straightliners ACU/FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) World Speed Records event at Elvington, North Yorkshire, on board the Nottingham University Isle of Man TT zero bike.
International multiple ACU Motorbike speed record holder Eisenberg achieved four FIM World records for an electric motorcycle (unfaired), with an average kilometre speed of 185mph, and peak GPS speeds of 197mph. He also secured the title for the fastest electric naked motorcycle in the world.
The four new ACU national category records include the FIM Flying Kilometre speed of 185.103mph, with best one-way speed of 194.086mph, with GPS peak speeds of 197mph, the FIM Flying Quarter Mile, the FIM Standing Quarter, the FIM Standing Mile and ACU Flying Quarter Mile.
These speed records are particularly poignant to Eisenberg, as it was the bike that his MADMAX team rider, Daley Mathison, rode to the last three podium wins at the Isle of Man TT. As part of the University’s Electric Superbike Team, Daley helped the Nottingham University Team to test and engineer the e-bike, providing them with valuable feedback on the bike’s behaviour, enabling them to implement improvements. Tragically Daley was killed this year in the Superbike round at the TT. Eisenberg promised Daley’s wife Natalie Mathison that he would help make Daley’s bike, the world’s fastest electric bike in the world as a tribute.
Eisenberg said: “I have been planning this ACU/FIM record attempt since the Isle of Man TT incident. Daley was a very special rider and member of the MADMAX team. The record attempts had the full blessing of his wife Natalie. I wore Daley’s special knee sliders for all the runs and I felt that Daley rode the bike to victory with me. It was my absolute honour to do it in his memory.”
He continued: “I can’t explain how happy and emotional this was.”
The records are subject to FIM ratification. The FIM is the global governing/sanctioning body of motorcycle racing.