Nitro-burning Top Fuel Motorcycles, capable of quarter-mile elapsed times well into the five-second range and with speed upwards of 250 miles per hour, are no doubt among the most intense and perhaps outright dangerous rides anywhere on the planet. Often charging so hard that the front wheel dangles in the air the entire length of the strip, the rider, with fortitude out of this world, manhandles the 1,300-plus horsepower beast with his weight, all while simply just trying to hang on at speeds few full-body cars have even attained.

Last weekend, British star Ian King, a seven-time world champion in the European Top Fuel Bike ranks, brought his Gulf Oil-backed motorcycle stateside for the Manufacturer’s Cup Exoticycle-Roaring Toyz Spring Cup at the South Georgia Motorsports Park to take on two-wheeled legend Larry McBride, Chris Hand, and others. 

McBride, aboard his familiar “Spiderman” motorcycle, paced qualifying with a quick 5.79 at 225 miles per hour, but at the end of the weekend, it was the British champion from Litlington Herts UK standing tall, after laying down the quickest pass of his career and the fifth-quickest of all-time in the final round — a 5.878 at 225.07 miles per hour — to defeat a slowing Chris Hand. With the run, King also joined the MTC Engineering Five-Second Club, as its eighth and final member. But best of all — at least for us here at home — King strapped a high-def camera onto his helmet for the big final round matchup, giving us one of the coolest and clearest views of a five-second run aboard a motorcycle that we’ve ever seen.

The camera captured it all, from the firing of the bike to the ultra-cool burnout that Top Fuel bikes are known for to the incredible blast off the starting line and even King’s reaction when Hand tells him how quick he just went. 

If you ever wondered what it’s like to cover the quarter-mile in less than six-seconds, and 660-feet in righat t or less than four seconds, this is your e-ticket ride. Us? Well, this is about as close to the saddle of that bike as we’d prefer to be.

That all said, we’re just curious if they clink when he walks?