'Streamliner' could achieve 400mph in 90 seconds

Angelic Bulldog is a fully enclosed aerodynamic motorbike known as a ‘streamliner’. If it is successful in achieving its target speed of 400mph then it will cover a mile every nine seconds, or the equivalent of two football pitches a second.

Gabriel Uttley, the designer, owner and rider of the Angelic Bulldog, said he has dedicated the last 16 years of his life to developing the £75,000 motorbike.

‘It’s a motorbike in the sense that its got two wheels, a motorbike-based engine, handle bars and a hand clutch,’ he said. ‘I can’t quite ride it like I do my road bike because I have to input everything. I can’t move my shoulders or twist my head to change direction like I do on a road bike because I’m strapped in.’

Uttley compared the experience that could launch him into the book of Guinness World Records to somewhere between flying an aircraft and steering a boat.