Brian
Welcome aboard, it's a great place to visit and join in picking on Keith, He
talks hick and runs a wierd car on the salt.
As you will see it's a great place for information and with luck someone
will help you locate a motorcycle to race again.
Glen
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From: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
To: "Bluebird" <k7bluebird@yahoo.co.uk>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:08 AM
Subject: Re: New Member
> Welcome, Brian, and I wish you would give us some technical dissertation
> on those sprint Triumphs, especially if you went into nitro with the
> blower. When they run the standing kilo, it gets to be more like speed
> trials than drag racing, in my mind.
>
> I recall reading years ago about how the fellas in the National Sprint
> Assn. over there did it, the intriguing part was how they got vertical
> twin bikes to live under extreme overstress conditions, and go very,
> very fast.
>
> A close friend of mine is working on a book about '50s and '60s bike
> drag racing over here(when it was a very small sport) and obtained a
> large amount of manuscript material from the famous Boris Murray about
> how he did it with twin-Triumphs years ago. Ardun Bill
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