…vision and hopeless nostalgia will afflict many of the new Bonneville's potential buyers, so pleasing them won't be easy.Whatever your opinion, or the opinion of the masses, all the work Triumph put in to reproduce the look of the original Bonneville won't count for diddlysquat unless the bike works on the…

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The 2009 Triumph Bonneville and Bonneville SE (above) join the previous T100 model to headline the British manufacturer's Modern Classic line.In 1959?Triumph celebrated its top speed performance exploits on the famed Bonneville Salt Flats by affixing the Bonneville moniker on an all-new motorcycle model…

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…enthusiastic about the Green Speed as a fun project, post graduation. ?If it works on Lake Gairdner in South Australia, we would also love to come to Bonneville to set the speed record of an air powered bike,? said Yi Yuan. ?Next step? I even want to set up a factory to produce air motorcycles.? Green Speed…

…new?2009 Triumph Bonneville SE.A restyled yet still iconic Triumph Bonneville SE is hitting North American streets in 2009 with a 1970s retro flair and more nimble handling. The Bonneville legend was born when Triumph broke the motorcycle speed record at the world-famous Bonneville Salt Flats and became…

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…preparation for their American assault. When the bike and crew were ready, they headed east, covering 650 miles in a single day. Like Gairdner, the Bonneville surface had been recently hit with rain. Salt conditions were less than optimum when they arrived, but the team traveled too far not to give it their…

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…trying to break records out on the Bonneville salt, including the MCUSA-sponsored Vulcan 2000.The headline news coming out of the Salt Flats in 2006 was the epic three-way world-record streamliner fight, which we have already chronicled with our?2006 Bonneville Streamliner Battle article. Yet, there…

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…motorcycles. A place where you can let it all hang out and the only ticket you might get is for bragging rights. That place is the world famous Bonneville Salt Flats. The event is the Bub Motorcycle Speed Trials. Now in its fifth season, the event has grown from a small group of go-fast junkies to an…

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A Vintage Vincent sits next to 2005 Black Lightning streamliner, owned by Max Lambky, who continues the British marque's long association with Bonneville.In 1948 Rollie Free, riding a Vincent HRD Black Lightning, threw caution to the wind stealing the AMA Land Speed Record from Harley-Davidson with…

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…nitrous, ran the wiring, and does her own tuning. She helped her hubby Todd set three records of his own on ?the bike that Deb built.? They visited Bonneville for the first time this year and made licensing runs on a borrowed machine. They were welcomed into the salt community with open arms and vow to…

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…refuge under the canopy out of direct sunlight. I took an immediate liking to him after hearing his story of why he wasn't running that day."I'm in Bonneville prison," he says, shaking his head. "I guess I didn't turn out where I was supposed to and I stopped too close to the track. My machine is so low…

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