OK, just found this thread... and Bret's corrected question was the one I had...
Marty will be 90 later this year. I think his last timed run was in 2008, someone correct my memory if it is wrong.
Freud was scheduled to ride my 1630 Busa at WoS... but the Busa was not cooperating, the initial test rides by Ross Powers showed a problem I've been fighting, bike surging... sometimes it runs fine, but at Colorado mile and again at WoS it was back.... test riding at home on a paved country road it was fine and fast. Never threw a code so it thinks everything is working fine.
When I was at the end of my rope our friend Nick Genet offered up his bike, a freshly finished 1000cc 2 cylinder Suzuki he had been lapping for 3 days with his buddies, on their own bikes, John and Michael Salimbeni. What a great group... They stopped their program to support Freud and his quest to ride again at Bonneville. Don and Gus Jackson went to the end to catch and we had a team.
I think we all had tears in our eyes when he launched and rode the course.... He made a couple more passes, then said he was roasting in Don Jackson's leathers and called a halt.
our fear was dispelled, we had not injured a National Treasure and we were not being banned from the salt for life...
I think after it was over he called Doris and confessed before facebook blew up and one of his kids ratted him out
On an additional note, Greg Waters and Jim Higgins brought me a switch to turn off the cam sensor after starting, but the winds were up, and then came the rain. Hoping it jumps ugly when I ride it so I can turn off the cam input