All you need to do is look at the 200 MPH Club roster. It went from 3 or 4 members per year to 10 or 20.
That should tell you how hard it was to set a record with 3 passes.
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Michael,
you are right....after the change to set a record....the record speed "explode"....and the number of Club member....a other reason for the higher number on Club member was after the Hayabusa was available....this bike done a lot of racer into the club.
there are only a few records left over from the time with the old (before 1996) rule....an this records mostly are tough records....
one of them was set by my great friend John (Speed Limit 1000)......221 mph in I/FL.....I had the luck to be first (record) over 200 mph in I/GL (Oct. 2012)...to today I ask me, how he pressed this speed out in 1995.....my best was close to 205 mph.....
and with this, that the most records was set under the today rule....this way of setting a record had to be seen to FIA and FIM
The one who set their records under the old rule, they really done a great job....tough time to set records.