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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Holmes" data-source="post: 111432" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>I am not in anyway intending to demean Eric's achievement, on a personal level it must have been great fun to do and to get a world record, but isn't the Bonneville Salt Flats supposed to be fastest place on earth, isn't that why everyone goes there? A standard Black Shadow apparently could achieve 125mph, a Black Lightning a lot more, both Bill and Norman have achieved 140+mph on tuned Vincents. I think these days Bonneville creates many records for all comers, the heady days of Bert, Marty and Rollie are long gone, I could compare it to heavyweight championship boxing, if you can't beat the current champion just create another championship and win that instead. With regard to "putting my money where my mouth is" I would have absolutely no intention of doing so, I would view it as trying to turn a frog back into a tadpole, whist spending £60k (estimate) for the privilege of doing so, to much has been changed, for me anyway, but I would have loved to have owned an unmolested Somerton, I do regret not being aware that it was for sale in its original state, but I have no idea what it sold for then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Holmes, post: 111432, member: 302"] I am not in anyway intending to demean Eric's achievement, on a personal level it must have been great fun to do and to get a world record, but isn't the Bonneville Salt Flats supposed to be fastest place on earth, isn't that why everyone goes there? A standard Black Shadow apparently could achieve 125mph, a Black Lightning a lot more, both Bill and Norman have achieved 140+mph on tuned Vincents. I think these days Bonneville creates many records for all comers, the heady days of Bert, Marty and Rollie are long gone, I could compare it to heavyweight championship boxing, if you can't beat the current champion just create another championship and win that instead. With regard to "putting my money where my mouth is" I would have absolutely no intention of doing so, I would view it as trying to turn a frog back into a tadpole, whist spending £60k (estimate) for the privilege of doing so, to much has been changed, for me anyway, but I would have loved to have owned an unmolested Somerton, I do regret not being aware that it was for sale in its original state, but I have no idea what it sold for then. [/QUOTE]
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