Woolie’s wild Pikes Peak hill climb racer

The Pikes Peak race is just two weeks away now, and the competition is getting red hot. We’ve already profiled the Zero SR/F, and Ducati has just announced that it’ll be running its Streetfighter V4 prototype. There’s a chance that both those machines will be eclipsed by this fire-breathing monster from Deus Ex Machina, though. It’s the latest incarnation of ‘Beastie,’ the ongoing race bike project from Michael ‘Woolie’ Woolaway. And this time it has a 200hp Ducati 1198 R engine. The first version of the bike debuted at Pikes Peak last year. With Woolie on board, it took second...