Bonneville Salt Flats Speed records

Anyone know how to access archives of records , I Googled but came up with
zilch . My birthday pressie was tickets to see "The Worlds Fastest Indian" I
would like to see details of his runs .
Cheers Ian K.

 

Your google must be broken. I googled for "bonneville records" and the
1st hit was
http://www.scta-bni.org/Bonneville/records/SCTA-BNI_Recs.htm

 

Have a look here Ian - Theres plenty of stuff around on Bert Munro for the
looking.
http://www.indianmotorbikes.com/features/munro/index.htm

 

Still amazes me that no one has broken his class record yet. I would have
thought that S/F record would have been broken by at least 20-30 mph by now.

justAL

 

Yeah it is pretty surprising. Maybe someone will set out to do it now
with all the publicity from the movie.

 

I have a suspicion the class is no longer around

 

Striesand/Frank?

 

Depends on the requirements for that particular class I'd reckon. Maybe most
modern bikes won't go into that class for one reason or another...

Either way, getting a vintage 600cc Scout to run that fast without forced
induction is a feat even the late, great John Britten might've shook his
head at the thought of...

 

Thanks Rod and Gary for the links.

 

http://fastest-bike.blogspot.com/

 

Got a copy of the movie......................Burn Street??

 

Anyone had a 'close' look at some of the records?

I recon the most amazing record is the one for 50cc motorbike....
121mph (195Kmh). With a bit of research you'll find it was a moped
(appropriately named 'Quickly') engine with a Wankel (re: rotary engine in
reverse) supercharger at 45lb boost. The record was set in 1956 and no-one has
even come close to it since.

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Your name sure spells it Timmy
go back to your deadly treadly

 

My guess is, the major reason being, no one cares any more. That class just isn't
interesting in the days of big-bore multis with their modern gimcrackery. His
record may stand for as long as records are kept.

Gary (great movie all the same)

 

Apparently something to do with changing the specifications of
'streamliners'. Have to be feet forwards or something now.