Death at 285 mph: Motorcyclist Loses Control While Trying to Break 300 mph

Top speed runs test the mettle of man and machine through extreme straight line velocities, and few exhibitions of speed get more extreme than racer Bill Warner's record-smashing motorcycle run on July 17, 2011, when the Floridian hit a record smashing 311.945 mph aboard a methanol-burning, 1,000 …