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372 in the turnout.
712.
We've got a lot of bikes up here this year,
a lot of bikes.
This is a 750cc Triumph running in the altered division,
the gas class.
1950 Triumph is the motorcycle.
This is Tyler Malinky of Lowbrow Customs.
He's the owner and the driver.
A 1950 Triumph vintage gas motorcycle.
(dramatic music)
Holds the record in class at 126.455
(motorcycle engine starting)
(motorcycle engine revving)
- [Man] Motorcycle 712.
(motorcycle engine revving)
(motorcycle engine accelerating)
(dramatic music)
- [Announcer] The motorcycle went down at the three quarter.
- I heard it over on the radio.
I heard, "Rider down."
- Yeah, he's picking up the bike.
- [Man] He'll be okay.
- He's actually, yeah.
- Oh shit.
That's how it went down.
Oh my.
Just instantly terrified.
He was in top gear so he was movin'
and coming off a bike it never good,
but even with the safety gear and everything,
that's terrifying, it's my brother.
It's even worse.
I bet they won't let him anywhere near,
they're like 20 yards away, the officials are like,
"Back off."
But he says he was up and moving around
and it seems like he's okay.
Nobody on our team has ever gone down before.
We had some problems, wheel slip, this, that.
I windowed the cases on a motor and locked up the rear wheel
but did not go down, I managed to recover.
This is the first time that any of us
have ever had anything like this happen.
I didn't feel true relief
until I saw him standing there smiling like an idiot.
- [Tyler] I'm sorry to worry you.
I'm fine.
- Glad you're good, glad you're good.
- [Tyler] Anything you walk away from is good.
My head's 100% fine.
My neck doesn't hurt.
- [Crew Member] No headache?
- No, no.
My fricken' hip is killing me and...
My bike is fucked.
- [Radio] When it gets on the radio station.
- Yeah, I'm waiting for them.
- Do you want some parts?
- Oh my...
Yeah, man.
What is that?
My fork stop.
How'd that happen.
- It didn't work (laughing).
- [Crew Member] It pulled the threads out.
- [Tyler] Did you see the front wheel?
I saw a glance of it.
- [Crew] I was looking around the one side
and I was like, it's not that bad.
And then I saw the other side of the rim.
- I think I flipped a few times.
I don't know where I stood up, it was just really loose.
I shifted into 4th a little early, like on purpose,
at like six grand instead of 7500.
Bring it up in fourth and it just,
I had my steering damper cranked all the way it,
it just started gettin'...
I've never had an issue with the bike, straight as an arrow.
It started wobbling and I went to go to the side
because it looked just gnarly where I was at,
I backed off the throttle and that was the mistake.
It started just, it was one second.
- [Crew] It's like sand, you were gettin' sand whipped
so you gotta ride through, let it loose.
- It bit and just.
So, I'm annoyed.
That bike was pristine.
- [Crew] Fuck the bike, I'm so glad you're all right.
- [Tyler] Going to a tank slapper, low siding to a high side
and I went down the salt
and the bike fricken flew up in the air
and smashed four, five or six times into the salt.
My face, the visor was torn off my shield
and I'm just staring up at the sky like,
"Jesus Christ."
I was able to stand up and I look back
and my bike was way behind me down the salt.
Walked down, picked the bike up, turned the fuel off
and it's all messed up.
The front wheel's totally smashed.
The whole rear end of the bike was smashed up.
It was depressing.
My right side was all black, black and blue.
I couldn't stand up or sit down on my own
because it hurt so bad this whole side of my body.
Made a makeshift sling out of a table cloth.
I think an hour or so later decided we'd better go to
Salt Lake City, better go to the hospital.
When in the emergency room and got checked out
to make sure I didn't explode a kidney
and to see what was up with my arm.
- So after last night we were cleaning up Tyler's bike,
getting it back in the trailer.
My bike was still in line for this morning,
they shut the course down.
They let us leave bikes in position,
which means this morning I came out
and they do the record runs
and I would have been six bikes back.
I came out early,
asked if I could and walked out.
Felt the salt, looked at the course
and just to me, it just looked rolly.
It looked rough.
The surface was wet.
It was real similar to yesterday morning.
That combined with my brother having just wrecked
and going off to the hospital and everything else,
everything just told me it's just not safe.
You can see the tire tracks out.
You can see how lumpy this is.
It's just wet.
I'm not doing this.
- [Camera Man] Sit it out for the day?
- Yeah, it's just killin' me man.
A year, bikes ready, I'm ready.
My head's screwed up still yesterday.
Seeing somebody, you see family, somebody you know crash
is a whole different thing.
But the course is slow.
I don't think it's safe.
On a bike with almost zero suspension, it's...
My brother having just wrecked
and going off the the hospital and everything else,
everything just told me it's just not safe.
Our bikes have a very similar geometry, riding position.
Which just offers you little control
because you're laying down.
Slick tires, very low profile and almost no suspension.
I decided to pull out of line
and I left the van there for about 20 minutes
before I actually moved it and fully committed.
It's just heartbreaking and depressing.
I think it was the right decision.
First car that went out spun out.
As the day's gone on there's been more of those.
The speeds are just 30% to 50% under what they should be.
Other riders are using the descriptive terms,
"scary, dangerous, sketchy as hell."
You name it, bad conditions.
- To be honest we kind of herd last night, he said,
"You know what?
Let's just not run my bike."
He said, "He's fine with that."
So I was like, "Well, I'll just run my bike."
- Yeah.
- Because I'm not faster than his bike.
- Yeah.
- It has 100 horsepower on a four inch tire.
- Pretty much every one of us here,
I think, is having this kind of conversation.
Not in the back of the line,
because they'd sat all day yesterday and never ran,
but a lot of them might be a bit nervous.
Their friend didn't go down also.
- This is killing me.
- It completely fucked my head up, man.
I was so nervous already yesterday.
Then it's like, Tyler's not the guy that goes down.
I'm a decent rider, he is better than me.
We've been doing this a lot of years,
I've had nerves but I've never been like, nervous.
Like I'm gonna pull out of line,
I don't think I've ever said that.
- I gotta do it.
If I don't do it, I gotta do it.
Today was a tough day.
Maybe the toughest day of motorcycle racing I've had.
We were hoping for better conditions today.
We showed up out there bright and early before dawn,
excited to run, ready to go.
It was the new course, we were over the moon.
Got out there,
as soon as we got out of the truck it was greasy.
We waited and waited.
The second car off spun badly.
Word started coming down the line, it was greasy out there.
We talked to an official and he wasn't very optimistic.
He said, "This is as good as it's gonna get."
We're like, "Well shit."
We watched a few guys run, they were spinnin'
and wobbling all over the place.
Speed Demon pulled out at the one mile.
That really shook my confidence when they pulled out.
My mind started to change.
I started to talk to my crew a little bit,
my wife Lori and Herb, Bill, my crew chief.
They were all telling me maybe it's not gonna happen.
Maybe we just gotta accept it.
We're not gonna do it.
I thought about running just for fun.
But I didn't build that bike to run just for fun,
I built that thing to break a record.
It was obvious we didn't have the traction or the salt
to get out there and break a record.
At the end of the day
it was an ultimate hard decision I've ever had to make
but we called it a day.
We went back to the pits and cracked a beer,
at I don't even know, 10:30 in the morning
and nursed our wounds
and started packing up and cleaning up.
It's still settling in.
I still can't believe that's it.
Obviously that's a big part of my decision today,
was not to put it on anybody, but seeing Tyler go down
I think, I don't want to steal,
you said it best when you said
it's like watching Superman fall.
Like Holy shit.
Tyler went out, he's so confident and so calm and collected.
To hear he went down, Greg and I were in the truck.
You just couldn't believe it.
Then he was actually kind of hurt and the bike was trashed.
That was a big confidence shaker.
He said my worst situation
where he said that the course felt good.
He was kind of getting into it, the course was hard,
and suddenly changed and within a second
he was in a tank slapper and cartwheeling down the track.
He sent me a text this morning that kind of said,
I told him, "Oh dude, I think I'm gonna pull out."
He sent me a nice text that just said,
"Don't sweat it.
"Even he learned that you think
you can control these situations
and sometimes you just can't."
Anyway, I take that to heart
and try not to feel too bad about quitting.
I'm not quitting, I just didn't run today.
I'm not quitting, we'll be back next year,
I just didn't run today.
His accident certainly shook me.
(rock music)
(blender running)
- Blender's been fantastic.
We had a little bobble right there.
Turns out we were out of fuel.
That's how much we've been using the blender.
We ran through a tank of gas this week.
I'm happy there's some other Canadians out there
that also had a two stroke blender.
So Canada represent with the two stroke blender
and the margaritas.
Maybe it's our new, we got to rid of the Caesar
and get the margarita for our national drink or whatever.
The blender ran great all week.
We made lots and lots of margaritas.
We're gonna make lots more tonight.
It's gonna be great.
Party at Bonneville,
we always have a good time at Bonneville.
- Here we are in the swamp lands of Nevada.
(generator cranking)
(bender running)
(rock music)
- So good.
- Refreshing.
(synthesizer music)
(violins and drums playing)
(motorcycle engine starting)
(synthesizer and violin music continues)
(motorcycle engine revving)
(motorcycle engine slowing down)
(slow music)
(synthesizer music)
- Trying to keep it under 25.
- [Announcer] (indistinct) record qualifier, 131.713.
- [Camera Man] Yeah, baby.
So stoked, what a redemption.
131.
- Yeah.
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- [Camera Man] How's it feel?
- Feel great.
I think I'm rich because it was a little boggy.
I had to ease on the throttle which isn't ideal
for getting to my power band.
But I ran like 6900 RPM which is below my power band.
I went into the two at 132, and out of the three at 132.
I think I should be right in there.
On that GPS.
I think we'll just get my slip and go to impound
because the records only 126.
I think I'm gonna jet down one.
It was awesome.
- Can you get down in there?
- Yeah.
I had to feather, like back out in fourth.
I had to back off and bring it up slow.
Which I know even from the dyno, just that throttle control,
it was just not ideal.
But anyway, I think I'm rich
and I think if I jet a little leaner,
I think I'll pick up a few miles an hour.
It was great.
I felt like I was going slow,
like I'm doing 128 or something.
It took a little while to pull up to fourth.
It was definitely in the two to three.
It was by far better than one or two.
I think I'm just rich.
I expected to be rich coming in.
I thought I might bog down.
My first run 28 today, I only pulled 6500 RPM or something.
Then I dropped one jet size
and I picked up five miles and hour.
- Everything felt good?
- Operated just like it should.
- Went straight.
- That was my run from last year.
- That's good.
That's what we wanna hear.
That's a lot better.
- [Camera Man] Couldn't be any better.
You said it, you did it.
- That was redemption for all the time in the garage.
- [Crew Member] Fuck yeah.
- First run felt great, course is great.
- Did it qualify?
- I think so.
Is it over 126 and a half?
My GPS said 132.
- 131.7
- Perfect.
That's a start.
- [Woman] I can't even read, 713.
- Awesome, that's great.
I went into the two at 132 on my little GPS
and came out at 132 so I Was hoping it was 131,
it better be.
If I come over here and it's 125
I'm gonna be fricken' pissed.
- One for impound and two for you.
- Thank you so much.
- You're welcome.
- See you again.
So mile two, thank you.
Mile two, 126 and a half.
Two and a quarter, 131.
That's a nice tick up.
We got into the power band then.
131.2 at the two and a quarter.
131.7 at the three.
So I came into the two five miles under.
It was rich too.
I gotta drop a jet and I gotta pick up a few miles an hour,
I think.
I was really excited last year to get one run
and I wanted to go right into impound.
Got three quarters of a mile down the course, wrecked,
went to the hospital, surgery,
months of dealing with all that stuff.
So it's a big deal to get back out here this year
and I'm super stoked because my best case scenario
was to do one run, go right into impound
and that's exactly what happened.
It performed, it was actually running rich, which is fine,
so I'll be able to go a little faster,
but I did 132.7 on a 126.455 or so record.
So I'm pretty stoked on that.
I know there's more in there.
I think I can pull, at least,
for sure three or four more miles an hour out of it
and try and get that record up.
I feel great, it makes all the work worthwhile
when I get the results I want.
(dramatic orchestral music)
(motorcycle engine starting)
(motorcycle engine accelerating)
- [Announcer] Three mile speed 129.293.
Congratulations to Tyler Malinky, Lowbrow Customs,
on your record backup.
(orchestral music building)
- [Announcer] Yup, that will do it.
126 and a half is the record for Tyler,
the record he was running on.
Yesterday's 131.713 and today's 129.293
averages out to about a 130 and a half or thereabouts.
That's four miles and hour on yesterday's old record,
so congratulations to Tyler Malinky.
715, yeah.
- [Tyler] Got 128 at the two,
129.2 and the two and a quarter.
Almost dead to the three.
- [Crew Member] It just held.
- Yeah.
With the lower gearing I would expect that.
I get to the top.
That's top speed for the RPM I could pull
based on being too rich and that gearing.
That's geared for 136 and I had 129.
I was running seven grand instead of 72, or 7250.
So that's easily a few more horsepower
in those couple hundred RPM.
So same sprocket, adjust the chain,
drop one main jet, go running.
- [Camera Man] 135.
- After we go in and get the record certification.
- [Crew Member] Which shouldn't take long.
- Should take five minutes hopefully,
with the engine being sealed.
(laughing)
First day, did a nice clean run.
Did a 131.7 on that 126 record.
Did a little jetting, tuning, adjusted my rear chain.
Ran again in the morning and ran 129 or something.
Wasn't a great run, but it was pretty good.
Got that record at 130.508 I think it is.
That's a new record.
Did a couple more runs.
I really wanted to get to 135, but I just wasn't there.
I was maxing the bike out running real consistent
131 for two miles straight.
Just holding that speed,
wasn't pulling the last few hundred RPM I wanted to get.
So we ended up retacking for fuel class.
I did a class change where for that
all I had to do was switch out to a fuel petcock
that's got a tether here.
You turn the petcock on like normal,
it has a solid lock with a pin,
then to shut the petcock off,
the only way is to use the lever on the bars.
So you can be riding, if you have a problem,
you catch on fire, or think you're gonna catch on fire,
you have a fuel leak,
you can stay in control of the machine,
kill your fuel for safety.
I was reinspected for that.
That record from 2002, it was 121 and change.
My goal was to get it over 130.
I ran on it yesterday, late in the day it was real hot,
maybe 80 degrees or so.
(motorcycle engine revving)
It was running real good through the two and a quarter,
I was basically at 130 and would normally pick up from there
and I was loosing some RPMs the last half mile.
Ran, I think it was 127.8.
Which is okay.
I wasn't exactly happy about it,
I was kind of pissy about it (laughs).
We went through the bike, the plugs looked pretty lean.
Jetted a little bit richer, really went through the carbs,
tuned 'em up, went over the whole bike.
Really feel all the hardware,
make sure there's nothing loose, nothing's cracked.
There's not something that'll be a safety issue.
Got the bike running real nice.
Ran this morning.
I really had to gas it off the line, which is not normal.
I had to feather the clutch, really rev it up to get going,
it almost fell on it's face, then it took off.
(motorcycle engine revving)
(motorcycle engine accelerating)
But I basically did 125.
Otherwise it was a really solid run.
Technique was good, shifts were good.
It's just, that's what it would do.
I'm thinking, I won't know
until I pull the engine, pull the head,
but I'm pretty sure I must have slightly bend a valve,
or more likely because I'm only running
six or seven miles slower than peak,
that I might have nicked a valve.
Might have caught the edge of a valve pocket
from valve float or a little over rev.
I'll find that out when I get home,
I'll pull the engine, I'll pull the head off,
inspect it, clear the pistons as necessary
so it doesn't happen again, and that's how you learn.
That's exactly racing.
I've got two records this week.
Bumped one of my own up,
took another record and bumped it over five miles an hour.
It's good because there's more there for this bike,
for this engine, for those records.
All in all it was a great week.
- [Crew Member] Come on, you wanna eat those.
- I do wanna eat those.
- [Crew Member] Take 'em.
- [Camera Man] Here, we're paying for 'em.
- [Crew Member] Some COVID cash.
- I texted him, yum, yum, yum.
Those look good, what is this?
A little cheesy, oh prosciutto with mozzarella.
- [Camera Man] Prosciutto with mozzarella
what's that?
- It's a beer.
- It's great, it's gonna go really well.
- Dinner.
(laughing)
- It was interesting when I was talking with Tyler
when he said he was coming to race,
originally I said, maybe I'll come.
I guess the entire time he was thinking I was coming to race
and I just was gonna come out and support.
I figured I'd do a 10 day camping trip and help crew
and everything else, but then as the week went on,
of course I started thinking, my bike is so ready.
Maybe I should just go.
It snowballed quickly
where I started getting everything together,
but I did not make up my mind until I did my dyno session
and everything was just 100%.
I just said, "Hell with it, I'm going."
That definitely affected
how you thought coming out this year.
I actually didn't even preregister
because I wanted to see the salt with my own eyes before.
I would have driven 1800 miles and left my bike in the truck
if I didn't feel it was safe to run.
We got onto the salt and I saw how hard it was
and dry and there was no question I was racing.
But even that first run,
on top of all the other things in your head,
and the fact that I haven't ridden this bike in a year
and just all these things, of course you're thinking
my brother wrecked last year,
there's a real weight to it.
You know it's dangerous.
(motorcycle engine starting)
Go to start the bike and I'm in a hurry.
I'm trying to slow myself down,
but it's all nerves and adrenaline.
Get up to the line and they clear me to go,
I go a couple feet, stall out past the line.
So of course then it's like, give me the kicked back,
start the bike back up.
At this point I'm breathing heavy,
my visor's fogging up, go again.
So I take off, make sure obviously
I don't do the same thing again, a little more throttle.
(motorcycle engine accelerating)
Just go down track, focus on my shifts.
After that it was fine, it was a clean run.
But first time on the salt,
two years since I had raced on the salt.
Killed the motor after the three mile, pull off
and I'm just trying to rip and get my gear off
because at that point I'm pouring sweat.
It's 45, 50 degrees out when I ran,
and I'm just soaked.
That was the first run.
Every run after that just got,
I'm standing at the line joking around.
I'm calm, I'm ready, I know the bike's right.
Gets easier every run.
I did six runs total.
Just some minor things.
Early on I decided
I wasn't quite pulling the gearing I wanted
so I added a tooth to the rear.
Which has consistently raised my speeds.
At that point I was in the 129 range.
The record I'm running for is 130.73 so it's close.
You gotta understand that mile and a half an hour,
out here is huge.
That record has been standing for nine years now.
It's tall for a Triumph.
Let's see here, so damn close.
I'm over 130 man.
But I broke my tachometer.
- [Crew Member] Really?
- I did this all by feel.
It said I was doing 5500 RPMs.
Which I wasn't, I knew I wasn't.
- [Crew Member] Got that buck 30 number though, dude.
- [Kyle] Yeah, a little bit faster at the quarter,
but then again this is where my tachometer broke.
Two and a half and I hit that big ditch.
So I broke 130 in the salt which is huge.
That's such a personal goal.
But all those runs,
they were all within plus of minus .5 miles per hour.
Basically I have 130 mile an hour bike on the salt.
It's 136 plus on concrete.
But it just shows you the altitude, the traction,
even with the longer course here,
even having three miles, man, it's hard.
It's a difficult racing environment.
Basically I did my last run here this morning.
I pretty much already decided I'm gonna go out
and if I have a clean run and I give it all it can
that would most likely be it.
I went out this morning and again ran right about 130
and it's so close to the record,
but I could probably go do this 10 more times
and it's just beating me up physically,
it's beating the bike up.
It's just not there.
So close but out here you have to make it to qualify,
then you have to back it up, they take the average.
It's just the chances of me getting it,
I just do not feel it's there.
That last run was textbook perfect.
The bike was perfect, the course was great,
the wind was dead.
It's just not there.
It's probably whiskey time, yeah.
(laughing)
- So real sad that at speed week,
I think it was on the last day,
Ralph Hudson crashed his bike on shutdown
after backing up a record.
I guess there was decent cross winds
and he lost control of his bike,
came off at over 250 miles an hour.
He was life flighted to Salt Lake
and ended up not making it.
A few weeks later he passed because of that.
It's a big loss for everyone here, for everyone.
He was an awesome guy, super nice.
Anyone who knew him will say the same.
He was just such a great guy.
Creative and fast.
The fastest motorcyclist in the world.
He ran in Bolivia a couple times,
there was an organized land speed meet there
for some of the fastest guys in the world.
Salt Flat Bolivia at 1200 foot elevation.
Super smooth and dry
but really high elevation which is a challenge.
He set a two way average of 299, I think, and change.
I think his top one way speed was 304,
I might be wrong on that, but basically fast.
Super fast.
He set that record here at speed week,
but ended up dying because of it.
What can you do?
That's life.
There was a great memorial here the other morning
where a bunch of racers
gathered out on the salt before sunrise.
Talk about Ralph, had a little candle vigil
and we all watched the sun rise.
Some people shared some words and it was super touching.
- I'm really glad that you all could make it.
Sunrise was a really important time for Ironwood Racing
because we all know that when we got to watch the sun rise
on the salt, it means that we've qualified for a record,
which is what we all want to do here.
I'm really grateful that I got to watch
so many sunrises with Ralph.
May those who morn be blessed with a comfort
of the love we've shared and continue to share.
May we face each new day with the hope and the certainty
that nothing can destroy the good that has been given.
May the memories unfold us as prayers for life
and inspire us.
May the first breath of each morning begin life again.
May the sweet light of change and possibility
illuminate the darkness.
May their love fill the silence.
May the memories of those who have passed become joyful.
Our days enriched by the friendships
and our lives enriched by their love.
- You all have this cup, right?
You see this cup?
I don't see any that look like my cup.
- [Man] Mine does.
- No, it'd different.
- [Woman] I have one, it's right here.
He's holding one.
- Yes, it's different.
But it's how you look at it.
You know as important as the cup is, it's nothing.
It's a shell.
Because what's important is what's inside the cup, you see?
Some of you got coffee, some of you got tea,
some of you got Pepsi.
What you put in the cup is what you share with others,
what you pour out.
Those of you that know me
know my cup's pretty much full of shit.
I say that because I'm who I am for opportunities like this.
My cup looks better and sometimes it's not fitting,
but you'll notice that there's a sweetness inside there.
Stacy did, Ralph did.
What Ralph taught me, if you've never felt this,
if you've never, I swear.
My Harley's been on a trailer for seven years
because I can't stop this.
Jumping an intersection at 85 miles an hour
with the front wheel in the air,
and my inner voice said
if you do it again, I was gonna set up a camera,
I'll throw you to the ground.
So I put her on a trailer.
We might race it, we don't know.
But listen to what's inside you.
Know what's in your cup.
Ralph, he lived.
And he filled these cups.
Once you share what's in the cup, it goes into someone else.
Ralph, he's moved on somewhere else,
but he poured something inside of each of us.
So he's still here
and he'll live on forever through each of us.
- Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
(slow music)
(motorcycle engine revving)
(motorcycle engine accelerating)
- A dancer, a romancer.
I'm a Capricorn, she's a cancer.
What? I just greased 'em.
(indistinct)
that's all I got, sorry.
- [Mechanic] You had one job.
- One job to do and I screwed it up.
- Hi, I'm Kyle from Lowbrow Customs
and I'm here on Bonneville Salt Flats 2019 Speed Week.
(laughing)
(reggae music)
- Yeah, I heard Kyle's selling his bike.
Said hit him up on Instagram, DM him.
3200 bucks, race ready.
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(laughing)
- Yeah, doing all right.
- Are there any sharks here?
- [Kyle] Hang 10.
- I don't know if I can do that.
- You can do it, you can do it.
Keep your balance, keep your balance.
- It's all chicken.
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(car horn honking)
- Hey.
Hey guys.
(laughing)
- Dude, it's beautiful.
It's hurry up and wait,
the sun comes at you from every direction and I like speed.
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- Might wear off actually.
- [Crew Member] Hey, take it easy.
What the hell?
- But here it feels normal still.
Hey, thank you.
- [Walter] Thanks, man.
- Walter, those New Jersey guys.
- Yeah, for 2021, lots of plans.
I actually had planned on building
a new dual engine bike for 2020.
Got my wife and my daughters I love to spend time with
and other interests like riding mountain bikes
and this and that.
I decided I'll just take a little more time
and then with COVID hitting and all that stuff
it really changed the race season anyway.
For 2021 I plan to have my new dual engine 1950 Triumph.
Been working on the chassis design
with Dowy Dutch Engineering since December of last year.
So 10 months in and fully cad modeled the entire bike.
We're actually just working on getting
all the gigs made for building the frame.
Like right now, as soon as we get home,
with Tim of Ferucchi Fabrication.
He's gonna be building the frame for me.
Really excited about that bike
because this bike's essentially a test bed for that.
Same wheel, front and rear.
Same front end, a lot of similarities.
It's gonna be a dual engine bike
with a three inch longer wheelbase.
It's basically a really small dual engine bike
that should be 120, 130 horsepower on gas.
Hopefully I'll come out here with a new bike,
tuned, ready to go and slay some records.
This bike, I'll know more once I pull the head off,
but at this point what I'm thinking is,
get this thing tuned up, potentially try a different head
or carburetor set up, get a little more power out of it.
Bring it out with the intention of bumping records
but we're thinking now, it's hard mentally and physically
to run two bikes at one event.
I've never done it.
Maybe get some of our crew,
getting the rookie runs down on this bike
and competing on some records.
We've got big plans.
My wife and daughters are gonna come out for speed week
as well as my brother, his wife and my nephews,
all of our friends and crew,
we've got big plans.
After being stuck at home mostly for 2020
it should be a really big year.
Hoping to come out and set records.
That's always the plan.
Should be a good year.
See you out there
and anyone of you guys and gals,
you wanna make it to Bonneville,
don't say it's a bucket list thing,
get your butt out here.
Drive out, whatever.
You can camp at the bend in the road for free.
It costs barely anything, you can come and spectate,
you can pop by our pit, say hello.
Watch people run.
See the fastest cars and bikes in the world.
Have a fricken great time,
or better yet buy the $10 SCTA rule book,
check out the class records and the rules
and get yourself a bike together.
You can start easy and cheap and get out here and race.
Have some fun.
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