Brandon Nozaki Miller
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World's First Professional Electric Motorcycle Racer
Brandon Nozaki Miller, commonly known as both "Electric Cowboy" and "Sparky", is the world's first motorcycle racer to get licensed to race on an electric motorcycle, and went on to become the world's first professional racer to have never ridden a motorcycle powered by anything other than electricity. He was licensed at CVR (Chuckwallah Valley Raceway) with CVMA (Chuckwallah Valley Motorcycle Association) and TrackDaz. CVMA is the first motorcycle organization to licence any racer on an electric motorcycle. As part of his progress and to challenge the stigma surrounding electrics when he first came into the sport, he made a point to show that production electrics were ready for everyone be they racers or not by competing in events like Pikes Peak, TTXGP, Mike Cooks Bonneville Landspeed shootout, and even competed in M1GP which held the first US electric only club racing series.
CVMA
- Licensed
- 2012 Winter season
- 2013 Summer & Winter Seasons
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC)
- 2013 PPIHC
TTXGP
- 2013 US rounds with MotoGP
FIM World Landspeed Records
- 2012 FIM 150 kg (330 lb) Kilometer 103 mph (166 km/h) at Mike Cook's Bonneville Landspeed Shootout
- 2012 FIM 150 kg (330 lb) Mile 102 mph (164 km/h) at Mike Cook's Bonneville Landspeed Shootout
Brandon was the first person to "break the ton" (go over 100 mph) in the 150 kg Unfaired Electric Motorcycle Class. He holds the FIM/AMA landspeed records for 150 kg unfaired electric motorcycle in the mile, 101.652 mph, and the kilometer, 102.281 mph. He first set these records using a stock 2012 production Zero Motorcycles ZF6, breaking the previous record of 68 mph a speed of 96 mph for two FIM/AMA world records and setting a brand new AMA record for fastest modified production electric motorcycle, all of which he broke two more times in the following two days resulting in his final records over 100 mph. Nozaki Miller set his records at the Bonneville Speedway in Utah.
References
"The first motorcycle racer who's never ridden a gas bike". Ride Apart. Retrieved 13 December 2013. "Thousand Oaks man sets electric motorcycle records". Ventura County Star. Retrieved 25 September 2012. "Bethlehem native sets electric motorcycle speed record". Express Times. Retrieved 8 October 2012. Zero motorcycles coming to Pikes Peak in new electric motorcycle class, retrieved 13 December 2013