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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #330 on: September 02, 2009, 02:10:16 PM »
Okay -- NOW we go to the pits.
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« Reply #331 on: September 02, 2009, 02:10:33 PM »
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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #332 on: September 02, 2009, 02:11:34 PM »
Nice... was the first run with the aluminum wheel?

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« Reply #333 on: September 02, 2009, 02:14:21 PM »
The only front wheel he has is the aluminum one.
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« Reply #334 on: September 02, 2009, 02:22:16 PM »
Dale Gullett says they're working on the nitrous system.  They did lots of the "engineering" on the system at home and thought it was ready to jusgt bolt on -- unh, not quite that easy, I guess.   He says they'll run on the bottled yet today, though.
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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #335 on: September 02, 2009, 02:28:52 PM »
Mike

The car is Tom and Diane Mellors ride from Vancouver

It's a 1950 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn which I think belonged to his late father, reckons it's comfortable and economical and must turn a few heads on the highway



The photo is from 2008, if you look closly you'll see the bike has grown in length

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Thanks!  I thought I recognized it.  The color difference in the year-to-year photography threw me.

No need for another pic.

Thanks again/

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« Reply #336 on: September 02, 2009, 02:36:13 PM »
Slow right now -- going to the truckstop for a bite to eat, then back in a little while.

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« Reply #337 on: September 02, 2009, 02:41:47 PM »
Scott Horner on the course --  runs his return run  --  189.450
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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #338 on: September 02, 2009, 02:42:55 PM »
Did I just spot a periscope on Tom Mellor's Triumph...What a hoot.

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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #339 on: September 02, 2009, 02:58:22 PM »
I JUST Have 2 questions-PRETTY PLEASE!!

#1 Any V-rod's Running If so How Fast :??

and

# 2 is for a Friend- Electric Bike/Bikes? Speed on Electric Sidehack :oops:?

Thanks again Slim Wish I was there TOO :-( !!!!!

S/K..................

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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #340 on: September 02, 2009, 03:28:04 PM »
Lunch time and the updates slow down.  Mike Akatiff tells me that 351 is great for the salt conditions.  He is definitely not running.  "We didn't event bring race gas!"  So if his record is broken......his challenge to take it back will have to wait a bit.

Would like to hear how Sam found the course and how his run went.
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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #341 on: September 02, 2009, 03:33:08 PM »
Slim no apple juice, come on now :roll:

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Re: BUB Updates
« Reply #342 on: September 02, 2009, 03:58:15 PM »
Lunch time and the updates slow down.  Mike Akatiff tells me that 351 is great for the salt conditions.  He is definitely not running.  "We didn't event bring race gas!"  So if his record is broken......his challenge to take it back will have to wait a bit.


Good to know!! Did Mike mention what he is having for lunch? or what color underwear he has on?

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« Reply #343 on: September 02, 2009, 03:59:37 PM »
Mike -- no worries -- I've filled my drink card.  No more for me.  Back from the truckstop -- pancakes are good, and Nancy had a taco plate -- should've had just plain tacos.  Too much too eat for a light lunch!

Kax, I've got a photo in here of a V-rod.  He had run an 88 the first run and then a 113.  He's in the R W B class -- don't know how many runs he's got left in his permission slip.

Bub was in the pits before we left for lunch -- Sam's bike wasn't back yet.  About his front tire -- it's carefully sheilded in the fender/front end assembly and not at all visible.  I'll assume that the wheel was, as reported here by others, the aluminum one.
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« Reply #344 on: September 02, 2009, 04:05:20 PM »
A little while ago a rider went down on the international course - took out some timing light equipment.  The rider is okay, radio reports, and the lights are repaired and about ready to run that course again.

About 100 in the sun -- the thermometer in the truck says 104, but I discount it a tad for good luck.
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