Hi Everyone. I've just joined after seeing mention of this forum on a FB comment from Carbinite LSR (sorry to see the World Finals are cancelled due to weather).
I'm based in the UK in the North not far from Manchester. I've always been interested in speed racing, much because I was born in the early sixties and grew amid the National awe of the great Donald Campbell. Over the years I've done nothing about speed racing, simply because I honestly felt it was beyond my reach. The big guns get to run in places like Bonneville - the best the UK had to offer was ... ... well nowhere really. Its still a bit short on realistic venues, except now Pendine Sands is up and running once again.
Pendine Landspeed Racing club has totally fuelled my late but enthusiastic involvement with the sport. I went to the first Pendine event in June to watch and fact find. It was a privilege to be there for such an historic event. The first organised mass speed trial on the Sands since John Parry-Thomas gave his life in his brave attempt to regain the outright LSR from Sir Malcolm Campbell. That first event was for bikes, and last month a four wheeled event was run by the Vintage Hot Rod Association.
So, for myself I've started a project to build a Land Speed Bike. A production based machine to race in the UK for now, and maybe one day in the awesome place that is Bonneville Salt Flats. At the moment I'm at the beginning of the adventure, I've got an engineering sponsor and a tyre sponsor which is helpful, and I've got much of the basic parts, but there is so much modifying and designing to come. Wow, what a journey.
I'm using the name Kankan Land Speed Racing. 'Can' is an important word I think, racers and builders have to be tenacious, and I believe I can.
Chris