Any new streamliners going together?

[fredvance]

Look on Carpenter Racing's website for the scoop on the Triumph streamliner!!

[kustombrad]

That is one first class bike!

[mkilger]

oh ya  A/B/G/S  being built at Bonneville Inc 

[kustombrad]

AWESOME!

[rlague]

Rex, it was at the SEMA show, nice looking liner but not legal in the roll cage area, or SCTA/BNI rules., It is beautiful construction and design.

Will be OK for FIM, but they have a long development path ahead in my opinion they ahve done a great job with PR, but the liner hasn't done anything yet.

Well it ran 90 mph at Bub meet with giant training wheels........an I think it caught fire at the end of the run.

[rlague]

Sorry I am biased for the guys who have gone over 350 mph since 2006 and held the record like Denis Manning and Mike Akatiff, and Sam Wheeler who has not held the record, but gone 355 one way.

All of the above guys are coming back to run hard salt permitting.....the Rocket will have tough competition.

[kustombrad]

Been working on the car and what's really amazing about doing one of these things is there really are no rules! Now safety and basic common sense out of the equation and you can do really anything you'd like! If you want to go out and just have "fun" copy what everyone else does and do just that. I love the aspect of being able to see what everyone else does and thinking of ways to do it different!  Theories and discussions are fine, but sometimes even that is "box" thinking! Sometimes you have to just stand back and look at things differently. Thats what makes this kind of competition so awesome!

[kustombrad]

Since I'm not seeing anything new, I guess I need to start a build thread and show my first attempt at building a race car...

[kustombrad]

Anybody new lately?

[wobblywalrus]

Some info about the Triumph streamliner...

www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_2237715661&feature=

This one is about wind tunnel testing.

[wobblywalrus]

That link does not work.  Try this...

www.youtube/watch?v=ycAICpdiTOc

www.youtubecom/ckwatch?v=MpU19ZqCkTU

[wobblywalrus]

These are good vids and I cannot make them work.  This is the problem of having a pre-hi-tech brain.  It is time to go out into the shop and beat on some metal.

[wobblywalrus]

Wind tunnel testing on the Triumph liner...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO5ZKSK91c

[wobblywalrus]

I went and got some strong bifocals to help me read the screen and to get the address right.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO5ZKSka91c

[wobblywalrus]

Triumph has me on the mailing list for all sorts of stuff including the streamliner.  Putting the links to the videos on the site is hard to do, for me, anyhow.  The easiest way to get them is to go onto the u-tube site.  Type in "land speed triumph rocket 3 streamliner."  All of the videos I know about are on the first three or so of the pages that come up.

Rumor tells me this thing is being built in Oregon and not far from where I live.