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There's nothing like conflict to make a story more compelling, and in the man-against-nature drama that is the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, we can add-man-against-man to the electric motorcycle portion of the event. Putting his battery-powered trans-Atlantic airplane endeavors momentarily ...

Because he's quick like that. And lucky. Chip Yates has, in a few short months, converted a Burt Rutan-designed Long-EZ airplane to battery power and, at the same time, undergone all the flight training necessary to get his pilot's license. On Wednesday, he took his renamed Long-ESA (Electric ...

Chip Yates retired his electric motorcycle last year after setting records at the Mohave Mile and Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and notching several (slower than Lightning) FIM World Land Speed achievements on the Bonneville Salt Flats. If you thought he was done with his pursuit of ...

This past weekend, Chip Yates checked off "make an amazing run up Pikes Peak" from his list of things to do to demonstrate the potential of electric-powered transportation. Coming second in the Exhibition Powersport class, his time of 12:50.094 bests the first-ever electric motorcycle effort ...

Chip Yates has just raised the top-speed bar for electric motorcycles. Given just 5,280 feet to work with, the racer/inventor let out the reins on his Swigz Pro Racing bike's 241 horses and stayed hard on the throttle until it hit 190.6 miles per hour at the Mohave Mile. Unfortunately, the ...

If you happen to be the holder of the Pikes Peak electric motorcycle hill-climbing record and wanted to successfully defend your title this year, you better start buffing up your bike now. Hell For Leather has revealed that Chip Yates is bringing his road racing monster to the mountain. But it's ...

What could be better than the couple laps of amazing on-bike footage we showed you yesterday in our post about Chip Yates' excellent racing results aboard the Swigz Pro Racing electric ...

Performance electric motorcycles passed a milestone this weekend at about 158 miles per hour. That's the top speed hit by Chip Yates as he pulled podium positions in not one, but two races at the ...

It's not supposed to happen like this. There's even a law against it. After spending many months building what is possibly the most complicated piece of machinery ever to rest upon ...

It's on. After being excluded from the 2011 TTXGP season because of a 100 50-kg reduction in the allowable bike weight, Chip Yates and the Swigz Pro Racing team have recently learned the ...