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What would be your favorite description?

The Great White Dyno
31 (53.4%)
The Ultimate Bullsh*t Detector
2 (3.4%)
Where Speed is King
3 (5.2%)
The World's Fastest Racetrack
18 (31%)
Where There is No Second Place
4 (6.9%)

Total Members Voted: 58

Voting closed: December 12, 2012, 11:19:13 AM

Author Topic: Bonneville Salt Flats  (Read 5379 times)

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Offline AHG

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Bonneville Salt Flats
« on: October 13, 2012, 12:19:13 PM »
Hi All,
The reason for my asking is that I am having some T-Shirts made up for the motorcycle racing
my Son and I are doing, and on the back it will say BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, but would like to put
a description on the second line. Thanks ahead of time for your input, and playing along.  :-)

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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2012, 12:24:59 PM »
Drew;

How about a quote from "The World's Fastest Indian": "This is hallowed ground, mate."

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2012, 12:35:34 PM »
Good idea Drew -  Can I get a Large with a pocket ?

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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2012, 01:02:51 PM »
Drew;

How about a quote from "The World's Fastest Indian": "This is hallowed ground, mate."

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

I realise this was not one of the choices, but it gets my vote!
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2012, 01:04:17 PM »
Hallowed Ground !!!!

I agree.

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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2012, 01:05:00 PM »
All good.  When I get a timing slip, I'll vote.
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2012, 03:22:06 PM »
Drew... personally I would go with the entire list including the suggested from WFI.  They all apply, you could do a list with check boxes... let the new owner use a sharpie to make his selection

Mine is an XL whatever you choose
See ya on the salt  8-)
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2012, 05:37:47 PM »
Drew (and others) I chose "The world's fastest racetrack" because the back of the shirt will be seen by lots of folks that don't have any clue about Bonneville.  If you're trying to help them begin to understand LSR - the generic reference to a racetrack will be understood pretty well by everyone. 

I expect that there are lots of folks that don't know what a dyno is or does, so that one leaves them guessing.  Hallowed ground is fine - but again, needs some context to be meaningful.  The WGBS detector - well, again, it strikes me that a common reaction upon seeing it is "hunh?"  What's that mean.  Sure, it's a conversation opener, but if there's not a conversation -- the reader goes away with no clue but a generic WTF?

Speed is King is close to good, but again, it will take seeing both sides of the shirt to make the reference complete.

That's that.  But since Nancy and I make t-shirts at our Kudos Design business -- might I ask what you're doing?  If it's a small run of 'em - we might be at least competitive in price because we don't have a set-up charge nor artist's costs.  We do the kind of printing called "dye sublimation" - which gives absolutely full color directly from a photo or your non-photo art (logo, text, etc).

Okay - ad is done.  I probably will want a shirt, too.  But what is going to be on the front?
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2012, 05:55:17 PM »
The front will be something similar to our hats.  :-)
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2012, 06:41:11 PM »
Oh-ho.  One thing that dye sublimation cannot do is be printed on a dark fabric - or anything dark.  It's a coloring that "dyes", as it says, the substrate - and dyes won't show up on dark shirts or dark caps.  White ink hasn't been perfected enough to work well at all -- so if you want the dark cap or shirt or dark anything -- you're stuck with screen printing.  If you settle for a light or white shirt - then the dye sub. process can give better colors. 

Nice design on the cap.  Best wishes.
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2012, 07:42:01 PM »
Hi All,
The reason for my asking is that I am having some T-Shirts made up for the motorcycle racing
my Son and I are doing, and on the back it will say BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, but would like to put
a description on the second line. Thanks ahead of time for your input, and playing along.  :-)

Drew


I'm interested in 2 -2X w/ or w/o pockets.

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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2012, 07:43:07 PM »
Drew... personally I would go with the entire list including the suggested from WFI.  They all apply, you could do a list with check boxes... let the new owner use a sharpie to make his selection

Mine is an XL whatever you choose
See ya on the salt  8-)

I like this idea ........

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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2012, 12:11:22 AM »
Wrote an article about the 50th Speedweek back in '98 for a car mag.... called it "North American Zoomland". Boy, did I catch some shit about that!
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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2012, 12:35:53 PM »
Drew,

It may not be politically correct, but how about;

"God's Racetrack"

or;

"God's Racetrack - all others are man made"

Standing on the Salt at sunrise is an awe inspiring experience!

Tom

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Re: Bonneville Salt Flats
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2012, 01:28:44 PM »
"Because 1/4 mile is too short to call it a race."
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