Steam motorcycle built by British engineer sets world record

British engineer Graham Sykes, together with his wife, created a unique steam motorcycle in his own personal workshop. This was reported by Zamin.uz.

This extraordinary piece of technology, called Force of Nature, recorded a result that astonished everyone in tests held at the Santa Pod racing track. The invention covered a four-hundred-meter distance in just five and a half seconds and took second place in the list of the world's fastest motorcycles.

The operating principle of this device is completely different from the old steam locomotives familiar to us. In a special reservoir installed in the motorcycle's construction, one hundred and twenty liters of highly purified water is heated to two hundred and sixty degrees.

When the driver presses a special button, the heated water is released under pressure and instantly turns into powerful steam. Notably, during this process, about forty liters of water are consumed every second.

Over a short distance, more precisely two hundred and one meters, this device reached a speed of three hundred and thirty-eight kilometers per hour and set the absolute world record among steam motorcycles. According to the engineer, the level of load on the driver in the first seconds of movement is very high and reaches six units.

Work on this project has been ongoing for six years, and currently the fifth improved version of the invention is being tested. In the future, Graham Sykes intends to cover the four-hundred-meter distance in less than five seconds.

However, specialists explain that this technology will never be used in everyday life, that is, in motorcycles moving on ordinary roads. The main reason for this is that the extremely high pressure and temperature levels in the device are extremely dangerous for the lives of both the driver and the people around.

Despite this, this invention is recognized as a huge achievement in the field of engineering.