Paralyzed rider takes a turbo Hayabusa past 320 km/h

Briton Talan Skeels-Piggins is the first paralyzed motorcyclist to break the 200 mph barrier. At the Straightliners World Speed Record event in England he hit 322 km/h (200.254 mph) over a mile run on a turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa.

It took him 11 years to get there. Setbacks and money problems stalled the project until racer and engineer Lee Baxendale joined in. Skeels-Piggins has been paralyzed from the chest down since a crash in 2003, and is a former Winter Paralympian. In 2012 he became the first paraplegic rider to race in an official road race against able-bodied riders, finishing 12th out of 38 on a modified Suzuki SV650 in the MiniTwins class.

• Bike prep — over 600 hours of work
• 2015 best — 282 km/h on a standard Hayabusa