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Bel-Ray Racing Prepares For 400mph

November 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Belray Racing Press Release: Bel-Ray is pleased to announce their association with Sam Wheeler and his motorcycle streamliner project. Wheeler’s quest is to top 400mph and break the current motorcycle land speed record of 376.156 MPH. Considered by the industry as a top designer/constructor/driver in motorcycle land-speed record competition, Wheeler will draw upon his 50+ [...]

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Return To Bonneville Licensing, legality, cool people and high speeds at the salt flats.

September 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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[ SCTA Speed Week began with a rider/driver’s meeting and great news about the future of the Bonneville Salt Flats from Kevin Oliver of the Bureau of Land Management. Oliver told the group that the salt flats were a “critical environmental concern” for the BLM, and the maintenance of this public land was one of [...]

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CW’s 1985 24-Hour World Speed Record Wild boars, disintegrating tires and the 3000-mile left turn.

August 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Photographer :  Doug Milner
Larry Little, CW's Advertising Director in 1985, pilots one of the GSX-Rs at max speed.

Sheer insanity, that’s what it was. I mean, how else would you describe riding a powerful sportbike flat-out all day and all night with wild boars wandering in your path, rear tires slinging off chunks of tread rubber, holy s**t tank-slappers trying to pitch you off at close to 150 mph and sweating away 10 [...]

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