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Offline wobblywalrus

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Articles and more for 2014
« on: October 27, 2014, 12:57:48 AM »
The latest issue of Motorcyclist has a one page story about Gary Ilminen and his Honda CB350 four he ran at BUB in 2010. 

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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2014, 01:32:00 AM »
The fellow that helps me a lot with the Triumph, Matt Capri, has supported race efforts from Triumph in Hinckley, Norton in Donnington, and now Royal Enfield in Chennai.  The reasons for listing the locations is that these are the new factories.  The rider for the Enfield effort was Nadine DeFrietas, an experienced racer who rode for Triumph last year. 

Most of the Enfields we see, both the Indian ones and the older Reddich models from England, are antiquated.  The newest models are modern in most respects.  The bike they are racing is the Contenental GP which has a unit construction engine, fuel injection, a welded tubular frame, and disc brakes on both ends.

There is an article about the effort in the latest issue of Cafe Racer (October/November 2014).  The article says it happened at Speedweek.  Not so.  It was at the bike speed trials.

Hopefully an article will come along this year that is both up to date and accurate.  We might need to wait a month or two until the British publications get over here.  Their journalistic quality and level of interest is much higher.   

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« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2014, 01:06:33 AM »
The rider mentioned in the first post, Gary Ilminen, wrote a story about his experience at this year's speed trials.  It is on the i-net so there is no magazine to buy.  Seehttps://ultimatemotorcycling.com/bonneville-motorcycle-speed-trials-2014-diary-new-record

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« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2014, 10:45:04 PM »
This is not the bike trials, but maybe in the future...

sprit.triumphmotorcycles.com/en_us/2/issue13/page5

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« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2014, 10:52:05 PM »
Hitting the arrow to each side takes one through the rest of the magazine.  A couple of guys rode from Spain to Nordkapp.  The northernmost point in continental Europe.  This is no big deal, except they did it in January.

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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2014, 09:34:04 PM »
A nice story.  www.fox10phoenix.com/story/26522906/2014/09/13/phoenix-woman-sets-motorcycle-land-speed record

Watching this hurt.  That record she broke was the one I was aiming at. 

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« Reply #8 on: November 10, 2014, 06:47:11 PM »
" the Bonneville Salt Flats' high friction surface "

Huh???
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« Reply #9 on: November 10, 2014, 06:58:36 PM »
" the Bonneville Salt Flats' high friction surface "

Huh???

It sure seems that way when you fall off a moving vehicle...  :roll:
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« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2014, 11:44:15 PM »
"One of the fastest women in the world on a motorcycle". She has a long way to go with a record at 160-------- :wink:
Bonneville 2001,2002,2003,2004,and NO stinking 2005,DLRA 2006, next?
Well,sure can't complain about 2008--6 records over 200 and 5 hats from Bonneville,Bubs, and El Mirage for the team!

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« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2014, 01:05:57 AM »
Note that journalistic accuracy is a weak point in almost all of this stuff.  I sure miss Cycle magazine. 

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« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2014, 10:41:22 AM »
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"One of the fastest women in the world on a motorcycle". She has a long way to go with a record at 160

well if you consider that there is something like 20 billion women in the world and maybe something like 100 women currently hold records she is in a very small group. it is all in how you look at it!!  :-P

But yes she has a long way to go to be one of the fastest women racers in the world!
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« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2014, 11:45:00 AM »
She was in the same group as me.  We were both running for the FIM record in the same class.  They are nice folks and they let me use their water sprayer to wash the salt off my oil radiator and cooling fins.  Her bike looked to be a production scoot.  None of the major work like on mine that has taken ten years to figure out and develop.  These Aprilias are at the beginning of realizing their potential.  The opposite applies to my Bonneville.  It was then that I decided to go on the world tour.  It is futile to try to compete.  I am sure lots of folks feel the same after the Motus made its debut.  The era of the airhammer is past.

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« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2014, 12:05:39 PM »
Wobbly, don't despair! Buying something that goes fast and making something that was designed to go slow(er) go fast(er) are two different things!  :-o :x

We will always know the difference whether the record book reflects it or not!  :cheers:

Besides, some air hammers , like yours, are just cool!  :-D
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