Pot stirrer reporting for duty.
My son just had a baby - first grandchild. I thought it might be more important to hop on a plane then stick around here.
Wobbly, you think that was difficult??? We upped the 100cc APS-BF with a 1967 Yamaha 3 speed trail bike motor
from 49mph set in 2008 to 91mph and out the back door at 99+. Can't wait for someone to break that one.
Um . . . if Darrold Cummings managed 106 without the blower and on gas then . . .
The fastest 1000cc record is 251 in APS-BF. Makes Burt Munro's record of 183 in a fuel streamliner soft. Of course almost 50 years on the books.
On the other hand the 1000cc I-BGS record is 315. You have to look at the car records too to see who is making horsepower.
For the Busa to run against a Vincent in a class at Bonneville doesn't seem fair.
Fair? Is that what racing is about? Racing is about running faster than anyone else WITHOUT QUALIFICATION.
I realize the thrill of going to Bonneville is vastly improved if you go home with your name in the record books.
Ok, in your class you were competitive.
But you have to realize there are some real genius people running on far faster records.
I'll repeat what I said earlier. Every record set this year had a faster record on the books, in what should have been a slower class.
Not counting pushrod/vintage/side car that run in their own world.
I don't really care that you ran on an open record. You cherry picked it, didn't you?
Nice sentiment, however did any one notice the Manxman teams A/BF 500 and A/BF 500 records from last year
they ran 188.730 and 203.373 on an 168 record. So they toured in, put 20 on the soft gas record and 35 on soft the fuel record.
And toured on home red hat in hand
Based on the logic of this thread, every bike over 500 should now have a 203.373 minimum
UM . . . No, they ran on a 183 and 175 record in the APS class. And a very nice record it was. 203 on a 500 cc is
damn competitive. And that's the point.
If you look at the record book Scott Guthrie holds an amazing number of records, and Oh Boy are they competitive. This year Team Guthrie Racing upped a blown 2000cc 170 record to 215. Sounds good until you look at the 252 unblown record.
The Costella name has some ungodly fast records attached to it. This year they stuck a wheel-on-a-stick to their 650 streamliner and ran 197 on an open record instead of running against the 230 streamliner record.
I have been running a spread sheet for ten years. My comparison is against the fastest overall records and how other records compare to see who is REALLY fast. No opinion necessary. Just numbers. Numbers like fuel is 6.0 mph faster than gas in the A class. 8.9 mph faster in the APS class. Partial streamlining is 25.2 mph faster in gas and 21.0 mph faster in fuel. Streamlining is faster than partial streamlining by 32.2 mph on gas and 34.3 mph on fuel. Yea numbers!