And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Looks as good or better than the fairing on my 750 KR factory Harley road racer that did many laps at Daytona at near 200mph! When I restored it, it had no cracks at any of the attachment points. Same with the Harley Sprint factory road racer that I have on my cafe bike. Just good fiberglass old school tech. Only thing high tech are the non distortion wind screens made of Plexiglas.(Impossible to find now).
Everyone should go to the salt flats once. That salt is actually pretty clear when you look right down at it, if you walk around a bit there's all sorts of bugs and birds perfectly perserved down in the salt. You got to wear sunglasses or you get snow blindness. Lot of really cool rigs race there. In fact its just about the only racing left thats still totally ameature, everything is custom home or shop built. The rules are unique too. Lot of records are hard to beat cause of it, the trick is creative interpretation of the rules, lot of of racers and crew are kind of a little like Smokey Unick, you got to be, if your real sharp and have a truly creative mind, and have access to excellent machine/metal fab and engine shop resources you can find a loop hole and take advantage of something nobody figured out. One way is detuning via decrease in bore/stroke say in the pushrod non streamlined class for motorcycles. just about all other aspects are free and totally open, they have basicaly made the rules under streamliner classes and non streamline, pushrod engines under so many cc's, over so many cc's, aircooled versus watercooled, etc. Just going to check out the craftsmanship and ingenuity is worth the trip. Stuuf you won't see anywhere else, like complete totally one off engines of radical configurations, to get around a rule or take advantage of a loop hole nobody thought of. But its getting so some class records will never be broken without rule changes, or they introduce new classes. The rule book is a piece of true work, and uktimately its up to the marshals to decide, so you can risk alot of work time and money, cause you can only find out if your creative interpretation makes it past the rules by showing up and making a record attempt. And those inspectors are some real serious hard arse dudes. Their word is law and final. No equivocating. Breaking the 200mph barrier is actually very difficult, lot of racers go there only to get into the 200mph club, its a highly honorable accomplishment. Mostly at that speed its wind resistance, takes inordinate hp to go over 200 in anything. Thats why streamlining is popular. And those rules are wicked tight compared to non streamliner classes.
I think that fairing looks cheaply made. I wonder if the attachment points are sufficient for 200+ mph.
ReplyDeleteLooks as good or better than the fairing on my 750 KR factory Harley
Deleteroad racer that did many laps at Daytona at near 200mph! When I restored
it, it had no cracks at any of the attachment points. Same with the Harley
Sprint factory road racer that I have on my cafe bike. Just good fiberglass
old school tech. Only thing high tech are the non distortion wind
screens made of Plexiglas.(Impossible to find now).
Forgot to add that fiberglass was also cheap, easy to replicate and repair
Deleteas these bikes took a lot of abuse.
Bubbarust
Celebrating a record ride with the Champagne of Bottled Beers - Miller High Life?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing Corona.
DeleteEveryone should go to the salt flats once. That salt is actually pretty clear when you look right down at it, if you walk around a bit there's all sorts of bugs and birds perfectly perserved down in the salt. You got to wear sunglasses or you get snow blindness. Lot of really cool rigs race there. In fact its just about the only racing left thats still totally ameature, everything is custom home or shop built. The rules are unique too. Lot of records are hard to beat cause of it, the trick is creative interpretation of the rules, lot of of racers and crew are kind of a little like Smokey Unick, you got to be, if your real sharp and have a truly creative mind, and have access to excellent machine/metal fab and engine shop resources you can find a loop hole and take advantage of something nobody figured out. One way is detuning via decrease in bore/stroke say in the pushrod non streamlined class for motorcycles. just about all other aspects are free and totally open, they have basicaly made the rules under streamliner classes and non streamline, pushrod engines under so many cc's, over so many cc's, aircooled versus watercooled, etc. Just going to check out the craftsmanship and ingenuity is worth the trip. Stuuf you won't see anywhere else, like complete totally one off engines of radical configurations, to get around a rule or take advantage of a loop hole nobody thought of. But its getting so some class records will never be broken without rule changes, or they introduce new classes.
ReplyDeleteThe rule book is a piece of true work, and uktimately its up to the marshals to decide, so you can risk alot of work time and money, cause you can only find out if your creative interpretation makes it past the rules by showing up and making a record attempt. And those inspectors are some real serious hard arse dudes. Their word is law and final. No equivocating. Breaking the 200mph barrier is actually very difficult, lot of racers go there only to get into the 200mph club, its a highly honorable accomplishment. Mostly at that speed its wind resistance, takes inordinate hp to go over 200 in anything. Thats why streamlining is popular. And those rules are wicked tight compared to non streamliner classes.
I understand that the Great Salt Lake has recently gained so much water that the Salt Flats are (mostly) underwater and unusable.
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