Chris Carr just did a return run that resulted in and average for both runs of 367.382. It will take a while for the FIM to ratify and make this time official, but that is a pretty spectacular time.
Denis must be really happy. His liner certainly has potential and looks like the new tires worked [...]
Chris Carr just did a run of 372.534 at the SHOOTOUT 2009 at Bonneville. That is the fastest one way time for a motorcycle. The current world record is 360.913 set one year ago at this same meet. Now the drama starts as the team has to make a run in the opposite direction within [...]
The record was not broken at the Bub meet last month. Denis Manning’s 7 with Chris Carr at the controls ended up with a fire that put them out for the rest of the event. It seems that they had an exhaust problem and burnt through some of the plumbing. Chris lost electrical and chutes [...]
Today is the last day of the International Speed Trials by BUB. The course will only be upen until 3:00PM today, so the crews were out early.
First to run was the 7 liner of Denis Manning. At just a little after 8:30 AM, Chris Carr left the line for what appeared to be a good [...]
Wednesday September 2 was another frustrating day for the streamliners trying to break the World’s Fastest Motorcycle record.
Mike Akatiff, the current record holder with Rocky Robinson driving/riding is on the salt, but is not entered in the event and not planning to run. Mike told me today that they didn’t even bring any race gas [...]
The streamliners of Denis Manning and Sam Wheeler spent the day at the Bub Speed Trials waiting for the salt to dry while they worked on electrical gremlins.
Denis’ 7 streamliner developed problems in the electronic MoTec engine management system. Rumors are that a crank sensor was acting up and they had to cannibalize parts from [...]
The sun has set on the second day of the Bub Speed Trials at Bonneville. This was the first day that any serious runs were made. However the conditions were still a bit wet for any serious running by the big streamliners, and the wind came up late in the day.
Max Lamky did [...]
The 2009 International motorcycle Speed Trials by BUB event is underway at the Bonneville Salt flats. Registration and tech inspection started yesterday. First runs were this morning, Monday, August 31. Thanks to the folks at www.landracing.com we will be presenting updates as to what is happening as the week progresses.
It won’t be [...]
The three most sophisticated motorcycle streamliners in the world went head to head on the Bonneville Salt Flats in September 2006 with one goal in mind: break the motorcycle world speed record of 3222.870 MPH.
It was a historic week. One never seen before. One unlikely to ever be repeated. The 2006 Internation Motorcycle Speed Trials [...]
The guys over at the landracing.com have a very active forum and they are posting updates from the Bonneville Salt Flats at the 2009 BUB Speed Trials which started today.
Check out this thread to get all the latest updates from the 2009 BUB Meet:
BUB Updates.
