My 1st Time Ever at Bonneville was the 1st BUB Event in 2004,and the course was INSANE ! I hit a 100 yard 1-3 inch deep salt lake in the Middle of the Course and went from 190mph to about 130mph INSANTANTLY and almost went through my Buell Front Fairing! I ave 156mph for that run but Scared Myself silly !
It wasn't till the 250mph Turbo Busa of Hank Booth went 160mph and Said he would'nt Go back again!He said it was the Scariest Ride he'd ever had and that made me Feel 100% better because I thought that's how it was supposed to be! !The Next day the salt had dried out and Hank told me I should go "Test the Salt" and Pointed towards these Mountain's! Well my Dumb A$$ NEVER Riding there before this did'nt realise as I just clicked 5 th gear how Nice and Hard the Salt was "about 130mph to 140mph" I looked up a saw this MIRAGE on the Salt of a Pretty Silverish Lake !
I Blinked my eye's and when they Opened I just started Skipping across this 6 to 12 inch deep Salt Water Lake at 140 mph!!!! I just touched my front break and I tucked in quick then $HIT!I'm skipping, then sliding across this friggen Lake out in the Middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats! I jump up and my bike is in a Line of Part 100yards away! I'm supposed tobe at the starting Line as I was just going to warm up my bike before I ran and to Test the SALT!I'M AT LEAST 3 OR 4 MILES OUT From Starting Line so No one knew where I was!
I tried to start My V-rod but she was Toast! So now I have to walk back to the Pit's and Thank God I wasn't Hurt or Knocked Out because I could have Died out there Very Easily! As I walked back I heard Big o'l Dually that had seen me Take off the Wrong way a New therre was Trouble out here! He said he heard me till I went into the Lake and new I was in trouble! Needless to say The Bonneville Salt Flat's are a Very Special Place to me. I have about 100 More Crazy Stories and the Scar's to Prove it
"Thank's John Noonan for my Latest one this year" as I was His Pit Bitch for his sidecar world Record this Year and I was dumb enough to Help" SCTA Event's require you to be Towed to and from the line and No Riding in the Pit's so you have to be towed 5 miles to the starting Line! Well I have my NHRA Pro Stock Bike Lic. so I've been Push Towed on a PSM Bike so how hard could it be? Well he tell's me to wrap the tow Rope around my Hand "Never Did it this way before?" and he would pull me behind his Duramax Desiel with the Edge Juice with Attitude! Needless to say as soon as the 40 ft.rope Slackened Tightened he Riped me right off that side hack in to a front flip with a half twist! I got Serious Salt Burn's from that one as I had Short's and No shirt,Helmet,Gloves or anything as didn't think I was going to be Crashing getting Towed to the starting Line!He would'nt let me go to the ambulance and Hold up the race so I got Nice and Sun burned on the salt rash Too !
I Love that Place,and have the Broken Bikes,Body,Marriage, and Check book to prove it!!!!!!
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