We are receiving entries from teams around the world, below are some of the teams that have confirmed their participation in the 2025 World Human Powered Speed Challenge!
IUT Annecy with rider François Pervis (FRA) – Annecy’s IUT has been building streamlined speed record bikes since 2007. Seven bikes have been built, from Altaïr 1 to Altaïr 7. The team’s numerous achievements include Aurelien Bonneteau riding 88.6 km in one hour at DEKRA Lausitzring in Germany in 2016, Ilona Peltier’s female world record of 126.52 km/h at WHPSC 2019, and Fabien Canal’s 1st-place finish in the male category at WHPSC 2019. Most recently, François Pervis reached a top speed of 139.89 km/h at WHPSC 2023, winning 1st place in that competition and making him the second-fastest man in history.
University of Toronto HPVDT (CAN) – The University of Toronto Human Powered Vehicles Design Team (HPVDT) is excited to make a return to Battle Mountain for WHPSC 2025! Last year, we brought out 5 drivers with 4 new faces to fly down the highway for the first time in 2 of our refurbished streamliners, Cyclone and Tempest. This year, we will have our repeat drivers aiming for greater heights, and hopefully we will have some new folks attempting runs for the first time. We intend to bring 2 or 3 streamliners, with our fresh construction Typhoon joining the fleet. Our goal is to bring back a speeding ticket, and expose some newer members to the thrill of speed. Have a look at our instagram @hpvdt to see our progress, or reach out to outreach@hpvdt.skule.ca to get in contact with us! See you on the highway!
Team seventyseven with rider Russell Bridge (GBR) – Having competed in three previous Battle Mountain events, achieving a best speed of 73.79mph in 2022, Russell Bridge and team seventyseven return to compete at Battle Mountain in 2025 with the goal of besting the current British record of 76.59mph.
Team Wild Bill (USA) – For 2025, William Thornton and Niklas Bostelmann make up team Wild Bill. In 2019, William went 60.87 mph with a Velomobile Milan SL, which is the fastest speed for a production Velomobile thus far. Our goal this year is to break the 2019 run of 60.87 mph.
Cal Poly SLO Human Powered Vehicles with rider Kayla Delk (USA) – Cal Poly Human Powered Vehicles the oldest team of any type, be it collegiate or professional, that has consistently designed, built, and raced fully-faired human-powered vehicles in the world. The organization was founded in 1977, and has been breaking records and topping podiums ever since. Today’s students continue to push the team forward with the same drive for innovation and progression that the team valued for decades. Most recently, our team attended the WHPSC in 2019 and set the U.S. Men’s collegiate speed record at 63.6 mph. calpolyhumanpoweredvehicle@gmail.com | @calpolyhpv
Team ELAN (NLD) – The team of Hans and Ellen van Vugt will be returning this year with an optimized and upgraded Orange Bullet speedbike, including a new fork, new wheel fairings, an improved camera system, a new external fairing, and new rear dropouts with two disc brakes. https://humanpowerteam.eu
Team HPT Falcon with rider Adam Hari (AUS) – returning for the fourth time and second in as many years. Adam will be racing his bike from last year with a few small improvements in hope to break the 80mph barrier and his personal best of 75mph set last year.
Team 60@60 (USA), rider Peter Borenstadt, age 71. John Jackson, team member. Both from San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, California respectively.
Peter has attended and raced at Battle Mountain since 2012. In 2014 he was third overall in the multitrack category, posting 60.08 mph at age 60. Since then, he pioneered racing a production DF velomobile at Battle Mountain, which he brought from 51.7 mph in 2016, to 56.91 in 2023. This last result was also good for a first place in the multitrack category.
In 2024 Peter set a high speed of 54.23 mph for men, age 70 & above.
For 2025 Peter will be racing a Milan SL velomobile, hoping to set a new high speed for men, age 71. Over the years team 60@60 had several notable guest racers. In 2016, it was Greg Thomas (59.4 mph), in 2019, the great Todd Reichert, still the overall speed record holder, got the DF unofficially over 60 mph (officially 58.4) and in 2024, the competition chief timer, Jun Nogami, got his formal 50 mph hat by going 51.67 mph.
University of Liverpool Velocipede Team (GBR) – The Arion 8 team is a small group of masters students who are excited to see their hard work and efforts pay off after 2 years of dedication and learning. Arion return to battle mountain with our riders, Ken Talbot and Karen Darke MBE, with 3 main aims: To take back the world record for the men’s hand-cycle 200m flying start category while simultaneously catapulting it closer to 60mph. Improve on our equivalent women’s record of 46.54mph, and have Karen receive a 50mph hat. With our new adaptations and improvements, the team has high hopes of achieving their goals. If interested in previous years and records go to ULVTeam.com for more info.
Yepseeya Cycles LLC (USA) rider Eric THESHIP Rosales – Eric raced bikes in high school and has done a lot of distance running. Three years into his third career, after wooden boat restoration, stone sculpture, and then trucking, he started designing pedal cars for the fun of it and seeing how fast he could make them go. Yepseeya Cycles LLC is the result.
The RoarShark showcases an invention he calls the Railcycle which allows the arms and legs to produce power while the hands and feet control the vehicle along a rail. So it’s all back and forth instead of round and round. We heard about Battle Mountain and couldn’t resist the challenge!
Team Legborghini with rider Cobus Burger (RSA/ USA) – Making their debut at WHPSC 2025, Team Legborghini arrives with a machine so flashy it might blind the timing crew before it even rolls onto the course. Rider Cobus Burger will be squeezed into a Milan GT MK7, dipped in Lamborghini Verde Scandal — because if you can’t be the fastest, you might as well be the loudest shade of green on the highway. Powered entirely by legs (hence the name Leg-borghini), the team proudly adopted the name Leg-borghini. Cobus has boldly set his goal at earning the non-existing and very prestigious “25 mph hat,” blissfully ignoring the fact that hats don’t actually start until 50 mph. Still, if style points counted for speed, Team Legborghini would already be breaking world records.