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2020 Bonneville World Finals - Salty Adventures!

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 In a world gone mad, it was absolutely amazing to be on the salt for 5 days and let all of those worries disappear and get raw!  The salt was hard and dry and FAST!  The best it's been in many years.   I will update this later with more stories, all in all, my British Motorcycle Association of Colorado (BMAC) team had a blast and came home with 2 land speed records!  Frank Puckett on his BSA 350 and Craig Kramer on Frank's Honda 100cc.  George Nachtsheim had a learning curve of a year running nitro for the first time in his Triumph.   And racing in conjunction with BMAC for but La Bandida Racing, Scott Groff ran as a rookie and after 4 runs hit 60 mph on my 1971 Honda SL125 AKA The Sherminator.  And I hit 65 mph on Sherm, which is the fastest he's ever gone, on an old record of 57 mph.  Sherm has 7 land speed records and as of 2019 Speed Week, records in both classes were thoroughly trounced by Team McLeish.  Hehe, way to go, ...