Hi All,
Hopefully you remember the Harley-Davidson streamliner from 1970 that was built by Denis Manning, and piloted by Cal Rayborn.
This machine set a record at 265.492 mph, and was powered by an Ironhead Sportster engine. The two engines that were brought for the job were built by Warner Riley;
who himself has numerous landspeed records on his own sit-on Nitro powered Sportster.
Well, last Sunday 10/29 I had the great pleasure of going through a pile of boxes with Mr. Riley. They mostly contained the racing parts from his own motorcycle,
but while rummaging through...the two sprockets shown below appeared.
Riley said they were from the H-D streamliner, and are both transmission mainshaft sprockets (33T & 34T).
How's that for TALL GEARING?!
Hope you enjoyed a brief look back at some Bonne. motorcycle history.
See Ya
p.s.
My prayers go out to all those who were, and are sadly involved with Hurricane Sandy.