This is Die Bike , a biodiesel motorcycle that has been construct from a car railway locomotive and a cycle body by an Oakland collective holler The Crucible . A late run - drive got the eco - bicycle up to 130 miles per hour , but its creators are hoping that , with a bit of change , their baby will shoot 160 miles per hour on the Bonneville Flats next month and snap off some record in the process . Check the video recording after the jump .
Creator Michael Sturtz set out off with a BMW minibike and a Beemer high - performance elevator car engine only available in Europe ( which shut out down for four solar day after its computer think it had been stolen , so Sturtz had to pray BMW for the security code . ) Its retro look total from having railway locomotive and frame wrap up in 3/4 aluminum fairing .
Die Bike cost $ 20,000 and took six calendar month to construct . As well as running on biodiesel , it can take both Rudolf Diesel and straight vegetable oil ( SVO ) . Sturtz , who is Founder and Executive Director of The Crucible , is hoping that his creation will break the subsist Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel motorcycle mankind record , as well as set up unexampled land speed classes for both bio - diesel and straight veggie crude . [ Popular ScienceviaCNN ]
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