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Bonneville 2005

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The 5 Mile

This is my first time on the salt....
I am awe struck!
In 2005 The weather, salt conditions, and the Gods of Speed, only alowed us a track that was 5 miles long.
I found out the night before that this would be my station.
I am given an Chair, Easy-Up, Ice Chest with bottled water and a Radio that looks like a Walke-Talky.
The Radio is teathered to a 20 foot tall pole and 12 volt battery pack.
I am left with the sage advice " you will be fine, you will pick it up fast once we start"
O-Kay!
These next few shots show how isolated my position was.

Looking down the track facing east at "Floating Mountain"

John Noonan celebrates with ice cream after shattering the world record for a sit-on motorcycle.
259.393mph 2 way average. Turbo charged Suzuki Hayabusa

Notice the lead weights on the swing arm for better traction on the salt.

This is the Ack Attack streamliner.
This bike is powered by 2 turbo charged Suzuki Hayabusa motors.
This bike is currently the worlds fastest motorcycle at a 2 way average of 360.913 MPH.
For the 2005 we only had 5 miles of groomed salt do to weather conditions.
I was working the 5 mile finish line that year.
The afore mentioned John Noonan was testing the Ack Attack that day when he had a double parachute failure.
That means the main shoot failed to deploy then the back-up or "O SHIT SHOOT" also failed to deploy!
He coasted past my position traveling well over 200 MPH. I was at the end of the groomed track so I was only stationed
about 30 feet from the side of the track. John says he waved as he went by but this is not true.
I know this because I was close enough to read what kind of helmet he was wearing through the windshield!

This picture is were John finally stopped!
I took this picture with my camera on full zoom, it took him more than a mile to get the thing stopped.

Andy Sills racing for BMW on this bone stock 180 MPH plus bike.

This is a shot of Andy Sills and Erin Hunter after doing the only "Double-up" run ever at the BUB event.
They went over 175 mph!

Belen Wagner has been setting land speed records since she was 10.
She has 41 records to date 4 of which are world records.

One of Belen's bikes.

Belen always travels with her own camera man.

These guys are developing diesel bikes for the military!

These bikes will run on the same fuel as a tank!

Another bike to scare the hell out of our enemies!

This was taken in 2005. Today the descendants of these bikes are deployed all over the world
in the service US Military! We do important stuff out here!

Butch Cook
Butch was seeing how fast this stock Suzuki M 109 could go on the salt.

This is another bike Butch Cook brought out. This Honda CRF 450F went well over 100mph.

This is the Vincent liner pits. This liner is powered by 2 antique Vincent motors.

This is the crew of Max Lambky's Vincent Streamliner recovering the bike after a run.

Suzuki Hayabusa good for about 190 MPH right off the showroom floor!
The name Hayabusa translates directly from the Japanese as Peregrine Falcon, the bird commonly attributed of achieving speeds of over 200 mph