Motorcycling XCountry

Sept.8 Fri

Bonneville Salt Flats UT - Reno NV = 420 miles - 6.25 hrs.

I always wondered how fast I could go without getting a ticket, killing myself or someone else.

There’s a place just for that.

It’s The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

Located 1.5hours west from Salt Lake City, is were people and their machines break the world’s speed records.

And it’s perfectly legal to speed as much as you want.

The Salt Flat is a lake that has a crust of salt on the top.

Just like a frozen lake, the Salt Flat has areas were the crust is thick, and some areas were the crust is thin. 

If you land on a thin crust, it’s just plain mud underneath.

You can just image what would happen if you got caught in it.

The surface of the Salt Flat is as smooth or smoother than fresh paved asphalt.

Luckily for me, it’s the right time of the season, and there’s spots marked out for racing.

As soon as I got to the salt flats, I noticed that it was empty, with the exception for Ruben.

Ruben was doing security detail for Honda who was filming a commercial out there.

By the time I got there, they hadn’t arrived yet, so Ruben was just chilling and waiting for them.

I asked him to keep an eye out for me in case I didn’t return so that he could get help if needed.

I jumped on my bike and went.

Let me tell you, it was one of the illest things I ever did.

Legally, Liter bikes in the US can only read up to 189mph on the speedometer even if you’re going way above that.

I stoped giving gas at around 13K rpms in the fear that the engine might blow.

So my guess is that I did around 19?mph, with my tank bag removed and my saddle bags still attached.

I think I got my need for speed out of my system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4KVwPkJxzA

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