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Land Speed Bike Project

Started by _oldjohnno_ , Jun 11 2016 09:46 PM

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#26 orangeLJ

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Posted 10 July 2016 - 10:46 PM

Pity you aren't closer OJ

I'd love to do some video work on your project and follow it through to the outcome. Would make a good mini doco

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Posted 11 July 2016 - 07:52 AM

Awesome.

Sorry, could you please upload some photos of the Holden six conversion for this motorbike? I can only see a two banger in there so far which suggests this project is nowhere near complete.

Some inspiration:

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#28 _oldjohnno_

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Posted 11 July 2016 - 08:56 PM

Issue #52 of Transmoto Dirt Bike Magazine had an article about Nigel Petrie, a fitter and turner who transformed a well-used KTM 350SX-F into a salt racer that set an Australian land speed record at Lake Gairdner in 2015.
The build and the record attempt are the subject of a documentary, “Flats” that captures the entire project on film. Download the film and have a look – it is quite an adventure. Nigel and his mate Dean travel by motorcycle from Geelong to the Salt Flats encountering a number of mechanical and other dramas along the way. Once at the Salt Flats they achieve an Australian class record of 196.93kph on the home built motorcycle.
If any of this stuff interests you, then Nigel’s blog page Engineered to Slide http://engineeredtoslide.com/blog/ is well worth perusing.

That's great stuff Steve, thank you. I also enjoyed the two-part BBC doco "Speed Dreams", about a half dozen or so pommy teams and their attempts at Bonneville. I was gobsmacked at how little testing some of them carried out before heading across the Atlantic. It seems that if you test the living shit out of your bike, the weather's on your side and you have incredibly good luck then you may have some tiny, tiny chance of success. If you don't test it within an inch of its life then your chances of success are zero or a bit less.

Pity you aren't closer OJ

I'd love to do some video work on your project and follow it through to the outcome. Would make a good mini doco

I dunno about that. I'm not very photogenic and 90% of the work is just plodding, tedious stuff - hours and hours of sums and drawing, interspersed with sessions on the spanners. I'm looking forward to the time when I can spend more time on the dyno.

Awesome.

Sorry, could you please upload some photos of the Holden six conversion for this motorbike? I can only see a two banger in there so far which suggests this project is nowhere near complete.

It's actually a one-banger Heath, but the 202 went in fairly easily and the SU's really set it off nicely. But I'm having a hell of a time with the Trimatic...

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#29 orangeLJ

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Posted 11 July 2016 - 10:17 PM

You'd be surprised what looks good on camera. Most of the early stages is just artsy stuff and narrating haha

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#30 Heath

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Posted 12 July 2016 - 08:21 AM

It's actually a one-banger Heath, but the 202 went in fairly easily and the SU's really set it off nicely. But I'm having a hell of a time with the Trimatic...

Excuse the nomenclature, I thought bike guys called them 2-bangers and 4-bangers referring to the strokes rather than cylinder counts... just to make it confusing

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#31 Shiney005

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 02:19 PM

How's it coming along John? I reckon I might drive over for a look.

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#32 _Skapinad_

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 07:17 PM

Good bump Laurie,

This crossed my mind recently too but couldn't find the thread

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 08:50 PM

I'm gonna guess that he's got the shits after what happened in the finite pressure wave thread, rightly so. (Which I thoroughly enjoyed reading!)
Probably why the Holden 6 guide is no longer?

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#34 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 08:53 PM

If you guys bothered donating you would have got updates

PS I feel slightly responsible for taking the finit pressure wave thread ot

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#35 _Skapinad_

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 09:31 PM

I did, got no updates...

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#36 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 09:48 PM

Hmmm thats strange, he must only send them to donors he likes

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#37 N/A-PWR

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 10:33 PM

Oldjohnno has not been on site for 2 months tomorrow Dammit :furious:

Edited by N/A-PWR, 05 December 2016 - 10:34 PM.

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#38 N/A-PWR

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 10:37 PM

a quick Google reveals ghost pictures from his great site, so the last of the last.

guess, the 'Land Speed Project' is on hold

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#39 Ice

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 10:42 PM

Oldjohnno has not been on site for 2 months tomorrow Dammit

Maybe just maybe he has better things to do in his life to

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#40 Shiney005

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Posted 06 December 2016 - 08:14 PM

I did get an update from the gofundme page but I was hoping he would get on the forum for an update. I didn't know he wasn't around here anymore. It's a shame.

https://www.gofundme..._campaign=upd_n

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Posted 12 December 2016 - 09:18 PM

I also got an email update on the speed record attempt. It is getting close, so I imagine he is a busy man.

Edited by Dodgey, 12 December 2016 - 09:19 PM.

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#42 RallyRed

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Posted 13 December 2016 - 10:36 AM

update was recieved here too......with the newly fab'd pipe...nice

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#43 orangeLJ

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Posted 13 December 2016 - 12:30 PM

What did I miss in the wave tuning thread? Must have been cleaned up as it all seemed sanitary today?

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#44 Shiney005

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Posted 04 February 2017 - 11:24 AM

I've decided to go for a bit of a drive and have a look. I reckon I'll get there on the Tuesday and hang about until Thursday. Then call into Maralinga on the way home. Anybody else heading to Lake Gairdiner?