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The Bonneville Salt Flats need no introduction. The first land speed record was set there in 1914. The Pontiac Bonneville and Triumph Bonneville are both named for the flats. It’s a place of legend. So it’s always nice when we ...

thanks to dirty rat rods and jayden from smcars.net for many of these pix. the next three images are a concept design by jaden. and keeping with the salt racer theme from today’s earlier post: it went over 130 miles ...

the rotax powered super rat speed racer they call “egg salad.” check out super rat for more. Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. [wysija_form id="1"]

got a really cool email from alp sungurtekin yesterday. he was at bonneville last week racing his 1952 650cc pre-unit triumph thunderbird which he completed only 11 days ago, just in time to get to haul *** to the salt ...

this is the current world record holder in the 500cc pushrod class at bonneville: it’s the very derided honda cx500, motherfu***ers. they hit over 114 mph with a stock motor and half-assed body work in 2008. watch the video below. ...