The World’s Fastest Monowheel Motorcycle

The World’s Fastest Monowheel Motorcycle
Imagine a motorcycle… with no front wheel, no back wheel — just ONE giant wheel.
And now imagine riding it at highway speed.
Most of us have heard about land speed records set by cars and aircraft. Jets. Rockets. Hypercars.
But this record?
This one belongs to something that looks like it escaped from the future — or from a mad engineer’s notebook.
Meet the monowheel motorcycle.
A monowheel is exactly what it sounds like: one massive wheel spinning around a track, with the engine and the rider trapped inside it. There’s no handlebar steering like a normal bike. No leaning into turns the usual way.
Speed is controlled by pure throttle control and perfect balance.
One wrong move — and you don’t crash forward or backward…
You become a human hamster.
Riders call it the dreaded “gerbil incident” — when the inner frame loops around with the wheel instead of staying grounded at the bottom. Not something you want to experience at high speed.
And yet… someone did.
At Elvington Airfield in North Yorkshire, UK, rider Kevin Scott and the UK Monowheel Team pushed their machine, called “WarHorse,” to a mind-bending 98.464 km/h (61.18 mph).
That officially earned them a place in the Guinness World Records as the Fastest monowheel motorcycle on Earth.
And here’s the part that makes this story even better.
The UK Monowheel Team isn’t a group of young daredevils chasing internet fame.
They’re four engineers, aged 49 to 60, who have been building experimental motorcycles since 2010. Years of problem-solving. Years of failed designs. Years of tuning something most people would never dare to ride.
To qualify for the record, the rules were brutal:
• The monowheel had to run only on engine power
• The speed had to be measured from a flying start
• And it had to be sustained over at least a quarter mile (402 meters)
No tricks. No shortcuts. Just raw engineering and nerve.
Before WarHorse, the record stood at 91.7 km/h (57 mph), set back in 2001 by American pioneer Kerry McLean at Irwindale Speedway in California.
For over two decades, no one had beaten it.
Until now.
Kevin and the team say they’re still refining WarHorse — just in case someone comes along and tries to steal the crown.
But for the moment?
They’re enjoying the view from the top.
Because in a world obsessed with faster cars and louder jets, these engineers proved something powerful:
Sometimes, breaking records isn’t about adding more wheels…
It’s about having the courage to ride on just one.
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