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Stock Panigale out on the SALT FLATS
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The salt looked real wet, more drag.
He did good for a rookie on a stock bike. Leslie Porterfield hit 200 on a Fireblade but hell she was duct taped up and lots of practice and that is a record for female production bikes.
The salt was crap this year. The bub event we cant even run.
All we got to do was some testing this year, 340mph at half throttle on a shake down test run.
with good salt 11 miles and no wind and 400 will be broken without raising an eyebrow. Its a long process to advance the record holding at 394 for fastest pass on motorcycles. 376 average. For the last 4 years no advancements have been made due to weather and or mechanical issues. Mostly weather.
Desalvo was laughable, the bub7 a joke. Sam Wheelers new bike is 300 mph bike that has been pushed to 350 ish but way to much new tech has been pumped into it so it has no real reliability, and the bike is a tinker toy, god forbid anything wrongs happens and that bike will not hold together. You could not pay me to drive it. Everyone who has gone for the record has crashed trying.
A lot of factors go in to this and traction always sucks and the elevation limits speed as well. The fastest bike doesn't get the rear will sticking until over 300mph at the top of third.
The good thing is if you have an off your chance for survival is great.
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Not really, but throttle response is everything due to the more slippery conditions then pavement.
The openness gives you confidence.
Easy on throttle, and easy easy off the throttle, you just don't make and quick moves at all in any aspect of anything. Or you unload front or rear tire.
On a side note we have a buddy took his 07 gsxr 1000 out there bone stock with mirrors still on, 176 and he is the greenpea and rides that thing with 2" chicken strips.
You could do it brother no problem and have a smile the whole time
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I was crazy stoked to sort of accidentally end up at Bonneville on my bike. Then I got on the salt. It's like ice. Crazy ....... scary, even at slow speeds in 1st and 2nd. Plus the salt destroys just about everything it comes in contact with.
Gave me mad respect for anyone who races there!
Gave me mad respect for anyone who races there!
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Imagine going almost as fast as a 747 with little to no control
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Cool vid I came across with an 1199 racing across the Bonneville Salt Flats....
Pretty cool.
Pretty cool.
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