g`day, ronnie stayt (pronunced stay-it ) here from australia, born and raised on a cattle property had me riding one horsepower since before i could walk, that progressed to racing my mates with the fastest horse in the valley,,, so i guess it was a natural progression to motorcycles,,,, donald campbells effots on lake eyre in 63, i think it was, fasinated me...then articles in easyriders magazine about their attempt, had me hooked on streamliners, however, at that time , a lack of a lsr venue, and a young family left me at the dreaming stage... been dragracing motorcycles since the late sixties, with moderate success, held three aussie dragracing records,,,, then in the mid ninties i heard of a place called gairdner, drove over (3000+ mile round trip) in 97 to check out speedweek, i was the only one there, the lake had 6" of water over it,,, returned in 04 with a turbocharged kz kawasaki, built from various bits and pieces left over from mine and mates previous projects, i do all my own engine and chassie work ,ran a best of 159, then clutch problems set in,,, returned in 06 with a kawasaki zx12r, a little warmed over and went 204 on less than ideal salt,,, at present am busy working on my new lsr project, a gs1150 turbocharged suzuki...
attended bubs last year, enjoyed it so much that i didnt want to come home, am planning on coming over every year (annual vacation), will miss this year, as my daughter is getting married, but will be there next year, along with all the other aussies,,,,