
Conditions at the Bonneville Salt Flats continue to deteriorate with each passing year, and 2015 is no different. Testing for the upcoming Speed Week, put on by the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), has been cancelled, and the salt conditions for the August 8th event are...
It's that time of year again, when the devote followers of velocity congregate at the alter of speed, and make their pilgrimage to the Bonneville Salt Flats. For the Southern California Timing Association though, this month's Bonneville Speed Week was a wash, literally. Getting heavy rain in the...
Electric Motorcycle manufacturer, Lightning Motorcycles will be looking to give its new production RR Hyperbike a name at Bonneville's Speed Week. In 2013, the manufacturer named their RR model the LS-218 after hitting 218 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2012. Lightning plans to keep the...
Racing seems set to return finally to the Bonneville Salt Flats this year, as the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) has found the conditions favorable to run its Speed Week event next month (above is a photo taken of the salt flats, just two weeks ago). This is good news for...
The conditions at the Bonneville Salt Flats are worrying, to say the very least. Each year the conditions of the salt flats are worse and worse, and 2015 marks the second year in a row that Speed Week has been cancelled by the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) because of the...
Racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats has been a tumultuous affair for 2015, with the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) forced to cancel its Speed Week event for the second year in a row, just to see the AMA now proclaim its Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials event a tentative "go"...
When motorcyclists think of the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats, I'd bet most would envision either Rollie Free aboard a Vincent in his bathing suit or Burt Munro, whose historic land-speed record was immortalized in the Anthony Hopkins film, The World's Fastest Indian. Indian Motorcycle kicked...