Killacycle Down Under

The KillaCycle is coming to New Zealand! In June my friend Philip blogged about his plan and now it's officially on. There has been a little bit of press coverage, the Dominion Post has an interview with Philip, and Radio Live has a 8 minute interview with Bill Dube, owner of the KillaCycle. The Radio Live piece is hard to find because they don't have any metadata on their archives. The interview is 8 minutes in, after the news and a song on part 1 and continues in part 2. Hopefully Philip will get permission to host these files as one piece before it is purged from Radio Live's website.

Don't miss Bill's interview -- he talks about his new battery pack from A123 Systems: more than 3 times the power density!

The plan is a tour of the North Island, with exhibition runs at the 4 and Rotary Nationals in January. The KillaCycle team hopes to take the New Zealand drag bike record. They are in talks with the current record holder, Athol Williams to do a head to head run, possibly at Taupo. Athol has set better times in Australia and will be a formidable challenge.

I've been invited to be the New Zealand pit crew member for the KillaCycle team, a job I'm very much looking forward to. I'm going to have to go down to Meremere for a few meetings to bone up on what goes on, I haven't been drag racing for years.

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