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The designer and owner of a Next Generation Top Fuel Bike is looking for someone to pilot his latest creation!!!!

His last rider chickened out!!!!

Boy, and people think road racers are crazy!!!!!!!

He could save weight by tossing the helmet. Won't need it in a crash anyway.

I don't think it's that much crazier than sitting on top of a nitro blown engine. Those things blow up frequently sending shrapnel everywhere. The riders have to wear flack jackets. No BS. My cousin ran a top fuel Harley. He finally got smart and started spending all that money on stuff that lasts longer than one run. They rebuild the motor between every run.

Wow!!!! Can't believe this contraption has been around since back in '85!!!!

Great find on digging up the video bluej58!!!!

If that's his latest creation he hasn't been doing anything for the last 35 years.
UK builder 400 + HP , Supercharged Ford Cosworth.
Seen that run years ago.
Used to bounce and flex in the middle a bit.
Bloody horrible death trap IMO .

Sad day .A copy and paste from the storm dragbike site

With great sadness, I must inform you that Angus MacPhail passed away last night as a result of diabetes and coronavirus. Our sincere condolences go to his wife, Carol, his family and friends.
Angus, I am sure, will be remembered by many people for many things. For me, growing up around 1970s drag racing, Angus was the softly spoken boffin with the Scottish name but the London accent. The mad professor who didn't know what day it was, who would turn up at a race meeting at 4pm on the Sunday, hoping to get some runs in with "just a bit of nut and bolt work to do".

I remember the McCoy 3-wheeler (that got banned for being too fast). Jade Warrior, of course, possibly his zenith in motorsport, and one that now appears on any number of websites under the tagline "Look at this crazy Brit!", or something similar.

I remember him introducing exhaust-driven ground effect into drag racing, conceived with his brother Nick, and tried first on my father's bike, where it proceeded to pebble dash any unfortunate marshals standing behind with grit from the track surface.

But, most of all, I will remember listening intently to Angus rambling about the comparative strengths and attributes of various materials, for which he had an infectious and unending enthusiasm.

Feel free share your own memories and stories of Angus here. I know there are many to be told. I know there is one about a drum of nitro and a Dutch customs officer...

We will miss you, Angus. Like your bikes, you were one of a kind.

Keith L