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Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials => Bville Motorcycle Speed Trials General Chat => Topic started by: **RP** on September 07, 2018, 01:03:55 PM

Title: 2018 records
Post by: **RP** on September 07, 2018, 01:03:55 PM

FYI............just ran across list of records set

http://www.dragbike.com/bonneville-motorcycle-speed-trial-2018/

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: Doc B. on September 07, 2018, 04:59:57 PM

Thanks!

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: comet on September 10, 2018, 03:47:29 AM

That is great to see. So many records set this year. Well done everyone.
 :cheers:

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: Chris V on September 10, 2018, 01:33:16 PM

Thanks Dragbike great photo's so soon after the event

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: DRW on September 11, 2018, 01:43:35 AM

Thanks Bland at Dragbike for gettin a photo of my bike # 1369

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: wobblywalrus on September 23, 2018, 02:59:46 PM

Scooter Grubb's pictures are posted on www.scootershoots.com (http://www.scootershoots.com)

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: DRW on September 24, 2018, 02:08:54 AM

Scooter has some great shots, I like seeing myself, But I look at each and every on , One by one, Try it,U see some great stuff

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: MAYOMAN on September 24, 2018, 10:39:55 AM

Amazing ingenuity on display. After watching NASCAR, IndyCar, and F1 going to "spec" racers - even dragsters - it is refreshing to see this amazing variety of competitive bikes. And these guys do it for love of the sport. Keep on truckin' y'all!

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: wobblywalrus on September 24, 2018, 08:23:48 PM

The wind tunnel I was at last week is in Mooresville, North Carolina.  That town and Charlotte are the epicenter of NASCAR.  Several conversations with locals were about NASCAR.  They spend huge amounts of money and effort to race those cars.  Very few, if any, land speed racers could begin to compete there.  We are very fortunate that LSR is not like NASCAR.

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: Stan Back on September 24, 2018, 10:19:43 PM

I think we're in better shape than they are.

We're self-supporting.  In their present state, they're not.  We're old farts just trying to prove something to ourselves and our friends over the decades.  They've lost their base.  The manufacturers' wars are over.  The millenials (sp?) don't care.  NHRA has Pro Stockers running one manufacturer's body with another's engine.  NASCAR's painting the seats in the grandstands so as they as they pan by it looks like someone's sitting there.  Spec classes and innovation be damned.  Sure was sorta fun while it lasted.  Gone from racing to entertainment and not holding up there.

Stan

Title: Re: 2018 records
Post by: Doc B. on September 24, 2018, 10:49:13 PM

Of course I had to see a pic of the painted grandstands myself. Daytona. Pretty clever, really.

(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BXMXXJ/empty-grandstands-at-daytona-international-speedway-in-florida-BXMXXJ.jpg)