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Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials => Bville Motorcycle Speed Trials General Chat => Topic started by: wobblywalrus on October 27, 2014, 12:57:48 AM
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The latest issue of Motorcyclist has a one page story about Gary Ilminen and his Honda CB350 four he ran at BUB in 2010.
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The fellow that helps me a lot with the Triumph, Matt Capri, has supported race efforts from Triumph in Hinckley, Norton in Donnington, and now Royal Enfield in Chennai. The reasons for listing the locations is that these are the new factories. The rider for the Enfield effort was Nadine DeFrietas, an experienced racer who rode for Triumph last year.
Most of the Enfields we see, both the Indian ones and the older Reddich models from England, are antiquated. The newest models are modern in most respects. The bike they are racing is the Contenental GP which has a unit construction engine, fuel injection, a welded tubular frame, and disc brakes on both ends.
There is an article about the effort in the latest issue of Cafe Racer (October/November 2014). The article says it happened at Speedweek. Not so. It was at the bike speed trials.
Hopefully an article will come along this year that is both up to date and accurate. We might need to wait a month or two until the British publications get over here. Their journalistic quality and level of interest is much higher.
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The rider mentioned in the first post, Gary Ilminen, wrote a story about his experience at this year's speed trials. It is on the i-net so there is no magazine to buy. Seehttps://ultimatemotorcycling.com/bonneville-motorcycle-speed-trials-2014-diary-new-record (https://ultimatemotorcycling.com/bonneville-motorcycle-speed-trials-2014-diary-new-record)
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This is not the bike trials, but maybe in the future...
sprit.triumphmotorcycles.com/en_us/2/issue13/page5 (http://sprit.triumphmotorcycles.com/en_us/2/issue13/page5)
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Another try. www.spirit.triumphmotorcycles.com/en_us/2/issue13/page5/ (http://www.spirit.triumphmotorcycles.com/en_us/2/issue13/page5/)
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Hitting the arrow to each side takes one through the rest of the magazine. A couple of guys rode from Spain to Nordkapp. The northernmost point in continental Europe. This is no big deal, except they did it in January.
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A nice story. www.fox10phoenix.com/story/26522906/2014/09/13/phoenix-woman-sets-motorcycle-land-speed record (http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/26522906/2014/09/13/phoenix-woman-sets-motorcycle-land-speed record)
Watching this hurt. That record she broke was the one I was aiming at.
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An article and video about the Motus effort. www.motorcycles-usa.com/499/19308/Motorcycle-Article/Motus-Sets-New-Salt-Flats-Speed-Record.aspx (http://www.motorcycles-usa.com/499/19308/Motorcycle-Article/Motus-Sets-New-Salt-Flats-Speed-Record.aspx)
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" the Bonneville Salt Flats' high friction surface "
Huh???
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" the Bonneville Salt Flats' high friction surface "
Huh???
It sure seems that way when you fall off a moving vehicle... :roll:
:cheers:
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"One of the fastest women in the world on a motorcycle". She has a long way to go with a record at 160-------- :wink:
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Note that journalistic accuracy is a weak point in almost all of this stuff. I sure miss Cycle magazine.
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"One of the fastest women in the world on a motorcycle". She has a long way to go with a record at 160
well if you consider that there is something like 20 billion women in the world and maybe something like 100 women currently hold records she is in a very small group. it is all in how you look at it!! :-P
But yes she has a long way to go to be one of the fastest women racers in the world!
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She was in the same group as me. We were both running for the FIM record in the same class. They are nice folks and they let me use their water sprayer to wash the salt off my oil radiator and cooling fins. Her bike looked to be a production scoot. None of the major work like on mine that has taken ten years to figure out and develop. These Aprilias are at the beginning of realizing their potential. The opposite applies to my Bonneville. It was then that I decided to go on the world tour. It is futile to try to compete. I am sure lots of folks feel the same after the Motus made its debut. The era of the airhammer is past.
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Wobbly, don't despair! Buying something that goes fast and making something that was designed to go slow(er) go fast(er) are two different things! :-o :x
We will always know the difference whether the record book reflects it or not! :cheers:
Besides, some air hammers , like yours, are just cool! :-D
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Gotta agree with you Woody - Here is a short video S&S put out recently - Bonneville IS a truly special place on this planet, as well as the unique people who hold it as one of their passions.
http://youtu.be/fVILzLPgCD0
Jimbo :cheers:
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The S and S team has depth of talent. There are a lot of combined years of experience in that group. The yellow partial stream liner in the background during the first part of the movie is Tom's (Konkretekid's) BSA.
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Bo,
The real thrill is to make a slow bike go fast! You and I are doing just that. If all we wanted to do was go fast, we could just go buy a crotch rocket.
Tom
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Don't worry, Tom, I have a plan. The Triumph will make another shot at that record in a few years. The problem is that record is in the highly competitive 1000cc class and the dang thing keeps getting faster every year.
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Here is another article about the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials that just came out online in Sportsnet magazine. It was written about Ted Hector and his 1948 Harley partial streamliner, but a few other Canadian competitors were mentioned, as well. Yours truly even got his picture with a few kind words!
http://www.sportsnet.ca/magazine/land-speed-record/#__federated=1
P.S. My bike was NOT designed by a yacht builder, but I guess the writers take "poetic license" to make their stories more interesting, at least in their opinion!
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Tom - or is it Sailor - nice article ....
Joe
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Good on You................you handsome survivor :cheers: