INDIAN 741 Supercharged...See you in 2011

[ironwigwam]

Cool Beans, Best of luck to you, see you as planned at BUB,
   Rocky

[octane]

Thank you for all your kind words.
I'll get back to you later.
Right now I'm totally knackered.



Just wanted to say that I have bumped into the fantastic world
of kindness and generosity of the landspeed crowd.

Not only have I had the pleasure of meeting some fantastic people like
George, Steve , Lee, the Texican (?) , Matt Guzzetta ,
Lynda, Jon , Nancy , Patrick ( the French Owl ), the distinguished Freud ,
Sparky , Ray , Graham , Tyler , Alp , Scott,
( and numerous other who's name has slipped my mind just now.
Forgive me please,  ....my mind is marshmallowed )
but in time of need when I found myself without pit , pit-equipment like
chase-car, CB radio and all that jazz,
out of the blue these two fabulous characters materialized before my very eyes:



Don ( "Salt27" ) and his son Gus:
Ez Up, tarp, car, CB , helmet, gloves and boots , at hand
at my disposal.........................and they are sharp dressed too, don't you think ?!
THANKS a lot !!! you two !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gus; you can be proud of your father.
Don; you can be proud of your son !

They had to leave today, so BAMMALAM:
The eminent Bill Anderson ( "Nortonist 592" )
( who rides the brilliant lay-down Weslake sidecar outfit) , his wonderful wife Veronica
and their friend Joe offered to take me in, and "crew" me,
take me to the track and all that.

This truly is a great and giving community.


Did my first run this afternoon:
the bike just did wonderfully wonderful, didn't miss a beat, felt almost mellow.
I took it easy; I mean I haven't ridden it in a year and I certainly didn't want to push it,
what with all that trouble last year.

I was totally flabbergasted ( love that word ) when I got the timing-slip:
98 ( point something ) mph.

Bike is in impound




.............and I'm in heaven.

[grumm441]

Backup run tommorow
G

[octane]

Thanks Graham !

[Unkl Ian]

Life is GOOD. 

[charlie101]

Great to hear you arrived good and well. Good luck and hope you get a lot of runs down the salt this year! Easy does it, you'll get in the 120's in time. I'm thrilled to bits for updates of your progress. I really really wish I was there!  :cheers:

[generatorshovel]

I'm glad to see you overcome the hassles of the last week Lars, WELL DONE  !
Now , of someone could just get a video of the Saltcracker singing in top gear tomorrow, I would be almost as happy as you
Tiny

[WhizzbangK.C.]

BRILLIANT!!!! 

Now just do another one, just like the other one. 

See ya in about a week at BUB.

[Graham in Aus]

GO... Lars! !!!!!

Great news, and good luck with the return run  

Just wanted to say that I have bumped into the fantastic world
of kindness and generosity of the landspeed crowd.

Not only have I had the pleasure of meeting some fantastic people like
George, Steve , Lee, the Texican (?) , Matt Guzzetta ,
Lynda, Jon , Nancy , Patrick ( the French Owl ), the distinguished Freud ,
Sparky , Ray , Graham , Tyler , Alp , Scott,
( and numerous other who's name has slipped my mind just now.
Forgive me please,  ....my mind is marshmallowed )

You say you have met Patrick from the UK, is he running his bike? His friend Richard is staying with me in Aus at the moment, we would love to know how he's going? I've asked on his build thread too....

Best of luck for the am.....

Go Lars!!  

[oz]

Way to go Lars Congratulations!!

[desperate]

Well done Lars, fingers crossed for you.

[octane]

Thanks for all your encouraging words !!!


Impound early morning sure is a magical place.



The whole mood of the place is really intense....anticipation, excitement, nervous energy
...this is your shot at getting in the books.

Here's a pic of "my" crew. Again cool dressers, those guys.
Bob and Bill wearing the Saltcracker T-shirts
and on the right Graham ( "Grumm" ) has sneaked into the pic




Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodness: was that a super-extra exciting ride.
Whatta'you'know: first da'Saltbisquit starts falling 'out of gear' and into neutral...again and again
then when entering the measured mile the little devil craps out......like there's no fuel...
my mind goes: nononononononononononononononononononononon you silly thing....don't do this to me
....it revs up again.......falls out of gear....craps out....no fuel......and finally revs up properly.

In order to keep it from falling into neutral
at this point, I would of course never ever ever ever ...cough....think of blasting the rest of the way in the measured
mile with left hand on the gear-knob ( hand-shifter...remember ) and only one hand on the handlebar
...NO SIR !....that would be against the rules.


I'm telling you: that was one h*ll of an.....er....interesting ride.
Got a real crappy speed of course, but I can't think of a situation
where I have been SO relieved as I was when I passed the mile mark exiting the measured mile...PHEW !

Bike was checked in impound. It was all good.
So now it's official : I got the record and I just couldn't be more happy.

The speed is silly but I'll do my very best to better it at BUB in a short while.

[Old Scrambler]

CONGRATS..........to a great rider. Just think of what it will be like with 2 hands on the grips!

[strathbran steve]

congratulations   well done Lars  

[twinspeed]

Congratulations Lars!

Great thing. It's rewarding to read about your journey.