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Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials (BMST) (AMA Land Speed Grand Championship / FIM Land Speed World Records) is a motorcycle land speed racing event, held annually at Bonneville Speedway, US. The event is sanctioned by American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) [ 1 ] as the Land Speed Grand Championship and Fédération Internationale de ...
Bonneville Speed Week has been taking place since 1949. [8] In late August, the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials are held. [9] USFRA Test-n-Tune event in 2024. In September each year is the World of Speed, (similar to Speed Week) organized by the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association (USFRA).
BUB Seven Streamliner is an American-built streamliner motorcycle that held the motorcycle land-speed record from 2006 to 2008 and again from 2009 to 2010. [6] BUB Seven and two other streamliners traded the title of "world's fastest motorcycle" during official speed runs at Bonneville Speedway in the summer of 2006.
Visitors at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The thickness of salt crust is a critical factor in racing use of the salt flats. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has undertaken multiple studies on the topic; while a 2007 study determined that there was little change in the crust's thickness from 1988 to 2003, [8] more recent studies have shown a reduction in thickness, especially in the northwest ...
The first generally recognized motorcycle speed records were set unofficially by Glenn Curtiss, using aircraft engines of his own manufacture, first in 1903, when he achieved 64 mph (103 km/h) at Yonkers, New York using a V-twin, and then on January 24, 1907, on Ormond Beach, Florida, when he achieved 136.27 mph (219.31 km/h) using a V8 housed in a spindly tube chassis with direct shaft drive ...
She is a 7-time motorcycle land-speed record holder and charter member of the Mojave Magnum "200 MPH Club." In 2012, Thompson was selected to drive the North American Eagle Project jet car for an attempt to break the long-standing land speed record for a woman, set by Kitty O'Neil in December 1976, at 512.71 mph (825.13 km/h).
The event will be held on Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon at the SPCA of Texas’ Myron K. Martin Spay/Neuter and Veterinary Care Clinic at 2400 Lone Star Dr., Dallas.
Leslie Porterfield was named as the 2008 American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) Racing Female Rider of the Year, [2] holds three land-speed records and is a member of the Bonneville 200 mph club. She is the former co-owner of High Five Cycles with Ronnie Trent, a used motorcycle dealership in north Dallas.