Recent content by Franklin

They might be a rough ride. I'd still like to see some of the fast land speed riders (for example, Scott Guthrie) talk to the Burklands about spin testing shaved street radials to see where their speed limits are at.

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www.deist.com Talk to Jim Deist about drag chutes to be worn by the rider.

I am a technical writer by profession (O&M manuals, training presentations, etc). If you want to see something really rare/unique go to www.landracing.com, click on "User Picture Posts" and take a look at the Propster pictures. This is a shoestring budget land speed trials car/prototype I...

http://www.madv8bike.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/show_image.html?linkedwidth=560&linkpath=http://www.madv8bike.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/a004.jpg.w560h363.jpg&target=_self&title=FIRE%20BURNOUT Build a V-8 bike something like this one but convert it into a 3,000 cc four...

DON'T add weight anywhere you can put it. Put your ballast LOW and FORWARD, concentrated near the downtube on the frame. If traction really becomes a problem get a pair of Indy car superspeedway front wings or Top Fuel dragster front wings and put them low on the bike forward of the rear wheel.

I'm wondering if existing leathers and armor could not be further improved by developing inflatable splints to go over a rider's shoulders, knees and elbows which would inflate in the event a rider becomes separated from the bike.

I suppose you could build a frame longer than the wheelbase so that you could have a conventional swingarm for the forward drive wheel and a swingarm for the rear drive where the shock unit and pivot are BEHIND the wheel. This way the drive wheels could be kept close together so that the...

I thought about conditions at Bonneville too, and it occurred to me the rear drive wheel will need some sort of shield or deflector in front of it so that the salt roostertail from the front drive wheel doesn't get under it to worsen slippage. As far as wings are concerned, at 250 or 300 mph it...

When thinking about how back in 1970 Don Vesco needed two engines and the Bonneville salts to be the first to break 250 mph on two wheels with bike motors, I remembered how the first rider to go 250 mph on two wheels period was Johnny Allen back in 1963 when he clocked 265 mph through the mile...

In other words, a three-wheeler bike where the drive wheels are in line instead of side by side?

http://www.landracing.com/news/sidecar.htm Isn't this a way to bypass the rules that otherwise bypass dustbin fairings?

I think trying to go 300 mph in a "sit up" or "sit on" bike where bodywork encloses the rider (unless that includes a rollcage) would be a high tech form of suicide. The only reasonable approach to going 300 mph without a rollcage would be a bike where the rider can leave it, and that means not...