We did it!
The '69 Bonneville set it's class record (AHRMA Historic Production Heavyweight) at the Bonneville salt flats with a measured mile at 91.948.
The galling thing was I had installed the wrong speedometer gearbox, and it was measuring just under 70 MPH at 5,000 RPM.
I need to finish 3 of the 4 remaining races here at Miller and over at Sandia next week, to get max points in AHRMA, so I was just cruising it at 5,000 RPM.
If I would have known I was going 90+, I would have wicked it up and done the ton through the traps!
Too bad I didn't have a "TriumphTalk.Com" banner in the pits.
Apart from the tragic fact that one of the streamliner riders died in a horrible shut-down crash AFTER SETTING A WORLD RECORD, the entire event was great. hate that it ended on a sad note.
More later...
The '69 Bonneville set it's class record (AHRMA Historic Production Heavyweight) at the Bonneville salt flats with a measured mile at 91.948.
The galling thing was I had installed the wrong speedometer gearbox, and it was measuring just under 70 MPH at 5,000 RPM.
I need to finish 3 of the 4 remaining races here at Miller and over at Sandia next week, to get max points in AHRMA, so I was just cruising it at 5,000 RPM.
If I would have known I was going 90+, I would have wicked it up and done the ton through the traps!
Too bad I didn't have a "TriumphTalk.Com" banner in the pits.
Apart from the tragic fact that one of the streamliner riders died in a horrible shut-down crash AFTER SETTING A WORLD RECORD, the entire event was great. hate that it ended on a sad note.
More later...
