How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle documents the construction of "The Worlds Fastest Panhead," conceived and assembled by Keith Ball, former editor or Easyriders magazine and current owner of Bikernet.com, the most popular biker stop on the internet.
Keith walks the reader through all the steps involved in the creation of a true Bonneville Salt Flats motorcycle. From choosing a class to picking an frame, from finding an engine builder to minimizing the aerodynamic drag at 200 miles per hour, Keith explains the how and why of building a Salt Flats motorcycle.
A project of this size is bound to suffer setbacks. Keith Ball uses a personal, narrative style to take the readers on a wild ride, through the ups and downs of building The Worlds Fastest Panhead. Building a Bonneville Salt Flats winner presents a whole series of hurdles. Keith describes each hurdle, and how it was overcome, from determining the best frame dimensions to making the un-streamlined machine as aerodynamic as possible.
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The phrase, Bonneville Salt Flats, strikes a chord with any true gear-head. For motorcycle enthusiasts the allure is even stronger. How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle documents the construction of “The Worlds Fastest Panhead,” conceived and assembled by Keith Ball, former editor or Easyriders magazine. Building a Bonneville Salt Flats winner presents a whole series of hurdles. Keith describes each hurdle, and how it was overcome, from determining the best frame dimensions to making the un-streamlined machine as aerodynamic as possible.
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Keith Ball is quite simply an instiution in the world of custom Harleys and V-Twin motorcycles. For 20 years Keith served as editor of Easyriders magazine, and in that postion came to know all the major and minor motorcyle builders throughout the US and the world. Today, Keith runs bikernet.com, a very biker-friendly web site with features on everything from how-to articles to pin up girls in his "cantina". Longtime rider and builder of custom bikes of his own, Keith has now turned his talents and networking abilities to the construction of The World's Fastest Panhead.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Should be titled "how I built a bonneville salt flats motorcycle",
By Dan (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle (Custom Builder) (Paperback)
If you are looking to build a motorcycle for land speed racing, this book is NOT for you. It is clearly a whole different subject than the title implies. It is a story about how a bunch of people all had a hand in planning and building a 120" panhead in a custom frame, and the trials along the way. It was kind of like watching an episode of biker build off. It was interesting, but did not help IN ANY WAY as far as how to build a motorcycle for Bonneville...unless you are building a bike exactly like the one they did. You would do much better to get a rulebook from the SCTA or the AMA and go from there
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
More correctly titled "How I built a racer w/ lots of help",
By Bruce Brodnax "L.A. Biker" (Lost Angeles, somewhere out in the smog) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle (Custom Builder) (Paperback)
This is more a story of a group effort on how *not* to proceed, ie, "Learn from my mistakes" been-there-done-that 1st hand account. A very entertaining read, it helps to demonstrate that LSR [land speed record] racing is NOT for the light of pocket; the "budget" effort detailed in this story would have been impossible without the considerable sponsorship noted and emphasized (& rightly so) throughout.
This story is about the wrenching leading up to the LSR event, & very short on the "rider's experience" as the author/builder chose to have a professional drag racer ride his machine during the actual record attempt. Like I said, this is more about "How I bungled things, watch & see what can go wrong" than some formulaic "this is what you need to do" and manifestly more enjoyable reading because of it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A how-to book with a good story to tell,
By Rider Boy (Regina, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle (Custom Builder) (Paperback)
While this book does tell the reader how to build a salt flats motorcycle, which is why I bought the book, I discovered it also told an extremely entertaining story. Mr. Ball's salt-flat experience became a family affair, and the author managed to make all of the characters involved interesting and engaging. Perhaps this is because of his background as a fiction writer (check out his fiction--if you love motorcycles, you're in for a treat). I recommend this book even to people who don't have dreams of running on the salt flats themselves. Good job, Mr. Ball.
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