[elky] Re: OT: a new world's fastest motorcycle
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:01:28 -0500
Great stuff Ray!
Outstanding in your (Flat) Field!
JC
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John Christensen
Saint Charles, IL
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Photos: Coming, Going, Gone....in 15 seconds. New flying mile and
> kilometer FIM record: Mile: 367.382, Kilo: 367.558. Top speed
> (calculated): over 380 mph. Raised the bar by 7 mph over the record set
> last year by Ricky Robinson on the Ack Attack owned by Mike Akatiff.
>
> The new record holder is the BUB 7 owned, designed and built by Dennis
> Manning; driven/ridden by Chris Carr...a real nice guy....but so's Robinson.
> BUB (which stands for Big Ugly Bastard, Manning's name for himself) will
> probably see an attack from the Ack Attack at World finals next month.
>
> For the photographically inclined, the photos were shot with a Canon 40D
> and a Canon L series 100-400mm zoom (btw, Marvin, I found your Pentax zoom)
> extended all the way out to 400, camera set to aperture priority at f14.
> That resulted in a shutter speed of 1/1000th of a second...slow enough to
> stop a hummingbird's wings...but not fast enough to overcome the panning
> blur at 370 mph.
>
> Here's a small group of photos I slapped on my web server last night:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2009/shootout/Welcome.html For grins,
> the snowmobile on the icon which was called the G-Force One may be renamed
> "The Saltmobile." Those guys from Quebec may not speak real good English
> and my French (Moroccan dialect) is covered in about 40 years of
> disuse...but the bought enough prints...well, they ran me out of paper and
> ink yesterday and today's record by BUB ran me out of ink on the backup
> printer. Sheesh!!! I never dreamed!
>
> I should be heading back home tomorrow night (I'm in the Hotel Suburbia at
> Jackrabbit flats) on a cell modem and otta be asleep by now...but I'm not
> quite there yet. I gotta get up before dawn to cover 2 different liner
> attempts. One is a diesel liner (the one that burned last year and cost the
> owner most of his fingertips) that's out to take the record from JCB in the
> UK. The JCB liner has dual motors and a huge budget. The Mormon Missile is
> a homebuilt single-engined machine with far less money behind it. Here's
> last year's story on that one:
> http://www.chevyasylum.com/lsr/bsf2008/shootout/missile/Welcome.html
>
> Finally, here's the thread of our live and direct forumcast:
> http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,6381.0.html
>
> Ohhh...the Missile is gonna give it one more shot with direct drive cuz
> they broke the clutch. So did the Buckeye Bullet, but I heard 'em say over
> the radio, "That's ok, we have a spare in the pits."
>
> Gonna be interesting...but I'm outta the printing business cuz I'm outta
> glossy paper and ink in the SECOND printer...so I'll just shoot and comment
> and take orders for CDs of the whole event. Cheap...$200 per team, $750 for
> the whole meet.
>
> G'nite,
>
> Ray
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