Chopperdaves Loud Fast Rules 2015!: Bonneville

September 7, 2010

Race Day at Loud Fast Rules! pt 2

Ok, so Bob Bennett, formerly of Bennetts Performance, takes a trip to Bonneville, asked if i wanted to come along but I was too busy. So, heres the email i got from him when he got back.

Dave:
Here's copies of my timing slips from Bonneville Speed Week.
I took the sportster and on my first pass ran a 172.285 on a 170.096 record. I didn't try to back it up because it blew some oil out of the base breather so i had to check out the cause, didn't know if I lost a ring or not. Second pass was a 169.450, not food enough to qualify for the record.
Took the bike back to the pits and found I was running last years spark plugs, (forgot to change them in the last minutes of getting ready for the trip) also adjusted the valves and found a questionable push rod, changed it and made my third pass on Thursday afternoon and went 182..098 in the open A-PG 1650 class, no faring, that's 9 MPH faster that the bike has ever gone in that class and 12 MPH over the record I set last year at the world finals. My back up run was the next morning, salt had a lot of moisture in it and I ran into a 14 MPH 1/4 head wind, went 170.027 for a two way average and new record of 176.063 MPH. OLD GUYS RULE!!! Bike was entered under Team Bennett.

Here's the bike.