The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is a race that has taken place since 1916 in Colorado (USA). The track ascends the Pikes Peak mountain along 12.42 miles (19.99 km) over 156 turns, with the finish line at 14,110 ft (4,300 m). It is a legendary race, which supposes a tremendous challenge for Bottpower. We competed there with our race bike prototype: the BOTT XR1R.
Pikes Peak is also one of the very few motorcycle races that allow true prototype machinery to compete, and probably the only big international race where a small company as Bottpower can compete head to head with big companies official teams.
In 2017, with Travis Newbold as a rider, we finished 4th overall, and we won in the “Challenge Exhibition Powersport” and “Challenge Motorcycle” categories.
We planed to come back in 2018, this time with Rennie Scaysbrook, one of the few riders who has stopped the clock watch under the 10 minutes mark, but finally we couldn’t make it.
Below you have the posts that we published about this project. Starting with the bike design, following with the bike building, testing, and finally, the race!
Pikes Peak project: Chapter one.
As we already mentioned in our previous post about the BOTT XR1R release, Bottpower is now involved in a new ...
Pikes Peak project: Chapter two.
Finally we received the two Buell XBRR that we will use as donor bikes for building our XR1R Pikes Peak ...
Pikes Peak Project: Chapter three
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is an event in which you can race only by invitation. The total amount of ...
Pikes Peak Project: Chapter four
As we already mentioned in previous chapter, as we are getting closer to the race date (in June), there is ...
Pikes Peak Project: Chapter five
In Chapter 2, we explained that we started this project with the help of 2 of our best customers who ...
Pikes Peak Project: Chapter six
During the last days, we have been working on the bike with the intention of having it ready to do ...
Pikes Peak Project: Chapter seven
Travis Newbold, the American rider who will race the BOTT XR1R in Pikes Peak next 25th of June, came to ...
Pikes Peak Project: Chapter eight
The BOTT XR1R was shipped from Spain to Denver some days before Jose Manuel Orge (my trusted mechanic to work ...
Bottpower video by PowerArt
PowerArt, a Spanish Youtube channel dedicated to Motorsport, has published a very cool video about Bottpower and the Pikes Peak ...
Rémy Roland internship project
Rémy Roland is a French Industrial Design student that one year ago spent some months at Bottpower doing an internship ...
Pikes Peak Project 2018: chapter one
Well, here we are, already working in the 2018 Pikes Peak Project. Time flies and the 24th of June (race ...
BOTT XR1R Pikes Peak race bike for sale
One month ago we made public in our Social Networks that finally this year we are not going to race ...
The Road Not Taken: The XK1 Project Story
When we competed in Pikes Peak in 2017, we realized our biggest rivals were the KTM Superdukes, particularly in terms ...