Minnesota Today from MPR News

November 29, 2012

Lake Elmo man sets land speed record

“Setting a world land-speed record for electric motorcycles turned out to be harder than Kevin Clemens thought it would be.

“Clemens, who lives in Lake Elmo, hit 78.4 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on Aug. 28, but his world record wasn’t official until the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme ratified it at a meeting earlier this month in Valencia, Spain. Clemens got word in the mail on Monday, Nov. 26,” (Pioneer Press).