05-03-2002, 01:54 AM
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427sharpe,
Was that the title? I read Brock's book while in high school. It was the inspiration for my friend Mark and I taking his Triuimph TR250 out to Soledad Canyon Road off the Highway 14 between Los Angeles and Palmdale and setting what I still believe must be an all time speed record of 110 MPH for just over 17 miles. 
We dreamed of entering the Cannonball with a rented car, but weren't old enough!
Soledad Canyon is a fairly twisty road and two doubters in school were taken out for a run on subsequent evenings. One guy I new never doubted how fast the TR250 was. That was one Kas Kastner. Formerly the head of racing for British Leyland in the USA, he told me that he had tested a TR250 at Daytona at over 130 MPH.
The book is also probably partially responsible for my friend buying a Ducati 996 a few months ago. He's topped it out at 164 MPH over a measured course. |
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