deb i think he is talking about BUB he mentioned the 130 club and said the drivers meeting was on wednesday --if he showes up at an SCTA event his rig will never make it through tech --not as a motorcycle and not as a car --although the scta rules do say if you can pass tech you can run ( TIME SLIP ONLY) even if there is no class ------ then there is 7.b.14 ----it cant run as a motorcycle mininum rim size is 15 in. --it cant run as a motorcycle streamliner or a car no roll cage or fire ext.system -------------willie buchta
as far as bub a motorcycle has 2 wheels unless its a sidecar then 3
That doesn't mean what Roland is doing is invalid. It means SCTA rules have catching up to do. Snowmobiles are another type of machine where SCTA rules haven't kept pace with progress.
I think comments made by Sir Malcolm Campbell in 1946 when he wrote regarding his upcoming attempt with the first turbojet boat are applicable to the question. "Well, it goes rather deeper than the mere desire to set up a new record. Standing by themselves, these speed records may mean much or little, as the case may be. Of course, there is a great sense of personal satisfaction in setting a figure which challenges the opposition but, if that were all, I should without much hesitation say that the effort was scarcely worth the time, trouble and expense involving in building a world-beating car or boat or aeroplane. It certainly would not be worth while if the achievement did not constitute a landmark on the road of progress. Every time we set up a new record of speed, either on land or water or in the air, we have learned something which can be applied to development and have travelled another distance towards that relative perfection of the machine which is the goal of human endeavor."
Do vehicles such as a powered land luge constitute a "landmark on the road of progress"? Can we learn something which can be applied to development and travel another distance towards that relative perfection of the machine?
