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MOTOR CYCLE - 02 November 2016 Sixty years ago a small, unfancied bunch Texans went faster than anyone before – and made the whole world stand still In September 1956, Johnny Allen streaked across the shimmering Bonneville Salt Flats in a Triumph-engined streamliner to set a world speed record of 214.40mph. He was one of a small group of Texans who, with a shoestring budget and a basically stock engine, used ingenuity and quiet determination to beat the exotic machinery of NSU, then the world’s biggest motorcycle manufacturer. His friends Bob Stoker and Charles Mangham recall what it took to become the fastest man on two wheels. Click here for the complete story. Copyright © 2000 NTNOA All rights reserved. |
