No hiding from you guys, we’ve been aiming for 120mph and are slowly edging towards it.
For this year we made a huge amount of changes, in weight reduction and wind force reduction, also some carburettor changes, just to name a few.
The bike ran awesome up the salt with everything working very well, soon as I passed through the exit trap and backed it off we had an instant seize/lock up, quite interesting to see how fast you can grab the clutch while it’s sliding/weaving along the salt at 114MPH.
Back home now (Victoria) and after taking off the timing and primary my assessment is piston seizure, the bike won’t be pulled down until I get back to our new home in Queensland.
Our first outing in 2021 ended with a timing side bush unscheduled deconstruction, the second outing to the salt 2023 gave us some good data, but the track was terrible and we went back to the drawing board with a list of changes to make.
Looking forward to next year, I’ll try to keep anyone who’s interested up to date, and may be asking around about how to remove some pistons pretty soon.
The bike is a 1954 road rocket, 201st one built.
Thomas.
