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NZ speed freak to embark on year-long quest to set 10 world records on Desmosedici road bike.

A NEW ZEALAND businessman is hoping to break the world production motorbike speed record on a Ducati Desmosedici. Paul Heard and his support team will embark on a year-long, world tour to progressively keep breaking the 311 kph world production motorcycle record on a Ducati Desmosedici RR.

Heard's first attempt will be 9 November at Featherston in the South Wairarapa, after which he and his team will travel to Dubai, Bahrain and South Africa before returning to New Zealand in December. In 2009 Heard has confirmed appearances in Australia for the Melbourne GP, then Japan before travelling to the United Kingdom where he will appear on the television show Fifth Gear. Heard will then tour Europe, including a stop in Italy, the home of Ducati.

Heard will then carry on to the United States for an interview with Jay Leno before finishing at the famous Speedweek on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in August 2009.

"I'm going to use the Ducati to attempt to smash the record for the 1000cc production class motorcycle while hopefully also breaking the 311 kph world production bike speed record. After the first Ducati run on 9 November in Featherston, my world tour begins.”

Heard hopes to travel around the world, attempting to progressively capture country speed records while continually bettering the world record.

“If all goes according to plan, by August 2009 I will have set at least ten country speed records and in each country reset the world production motorcycle speed record

Thats if he lives that long! [coffee]

Rob

hope he does it ,  who and what bike holds the record dock

You wont like it :-X

http://www.gizmag.com/go/4835/

if d16 dont beat that ill buy a bmw , [laugh] and see that ad 2008 hybusa fastest production bike i thought the kaka 1400 was any way the little duc will piss it in if my memory serve me right didnt the 990 gp bike break the fastest record of 347 down a straight on some race track  [thumbsup]

hmmm, thats why the MV Agusta F4 R 312 got that name...  if it lived up to its claim, it should already have the record??

WOW Doc

Have you ever watched "The Worlds Fastest Indian" it is a great movie we've watched it plenty of times, maybe this guy can make a movie "The worlds fastest DUCATI " ;D and he's from New Zealand, wonder if he makes his own pistons ???? [thumbsup]

EGAS

Yeh from baked bean tins [thumbsup]