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Sweet ride.
Sweet V-twin. Do you know if it's a four valve ride? It's gonna scream. I really like the way it looks.
It dont say weather it is or not in all the blurb but I'm looking at a v twin with a four cam head so I rekon there is a 100% chance it is bud. And yeah it a beautiful looking bike I would rather spend my money on this tracker than the other bikes they have released since Indian have returned from the grave cause the other ones me and the boys check out at the race meets around here are just horrid and heavy if one of them fell over I rekon you wold need a tribe of indians to pick the bloody thing up.
I tried to post the pics from this link in the orginal post but I kept getting the capta screen ( perhaps D.O.A. can have a look at that when he's got time )
Indian Motorcycle’s New FTR750 Dirt-Track Racer - EXCLUSIVE TECHNICAL PREVIEW
Triumph Motorcycles Confirms New World Land Speed Record attempt
Triumph Motorcycles, the iconic British motorcycle brand, has confirmed that it will return to the legendary salt flats of Bonneville, USA, in August 2016 to break the motorcycle world land speed record. Triumph’s aim is to exceed the current record that stands at 376.363 mph, using its purpose built 1,000 bhp Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner.
Riding the purpose-built Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner over the measured mile will be Isle of Man TT racer and multiple speed record holder Guy Martin. Title partner for Triumph’s 2016 record attempt will be global cloud applications provider Infor with further support from iconic clothing brand Belstaff.
The Triumph Infor Rocket features a carbon Kevlar monocoque construction with two turbocharged Triumph Rocket III engines producing a combined 1,000 bhp at 9,000 rpm. The motorcycle is 25.5 feet long, 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall. Powered by methanol fuel, the bike is competing in the Division C (streamlined motorcycle) category.
Triumph has a history of breaking the land speed record, holding the title of ‘World’s Fastest Motorcycle’ between 1955 to 1970*. The record-breaking Triumph Streamliners included: Devil’s Arrow, Texas Cee-gar, Dudek Streamliner and Gyronaut X1, the former achieving a top speed of 245.667 mph (395.28 km/h). Today’s record, held by Rocky Robinson since 2010 riding the Top Oil-Ack Attack streamliner, sits at 376.363 mph (605.697 km/h).
Guy Martin commented: “I can’t wait to take the Triumph Infor Rocket Streamliner onto the salt at Bonneville for the first time this summer. The Triumph engineers have built an amazing machine, giving us the very best chance to beat the two-wheeled land speed record.”
The iconic Bonneville name was conceived following Johnny Allen’s land-speed record runs at the Salt Flats in September 1956, when he reached the record breaking speed of 193.72 mph. The first T120 Bonneville model was unveiled at the Earls Court Bike Show and went on sale in 1959.
LandSpeedRecord2016 | Triumph Motorcycles
Wino any thoughts on semi active suspension? I got a chance to take a ride on a BMW 1000 RR HP4. It was very stable and the response time was the best I've ever experienced.
well done, I guess you had to take it back didn't ya ?
have never ridden a bike with it bud and I have not read anything bad about it. The only bad thing I can see with it is it is the start of dumbing down new riders. AS in they no longer have as much input setting up the bikes suspension.
Making Sense Of Suspension: ELECTRONIC SUSPENSION
I thought it was like riding a two wheeled car. The handling is amazing, but I do get your point on dumbing it down. Absolutely came back with it. Way out of my price range. Also wondered how it would be if the electronics went out during a ride.
Ryder Notes: Ring Notes
by jules ryder on the ground in Austria
Thursday, August 11, 2016
It is along time since I was at the Osterrreichring, sorry the A1 Ring, I mean the Red Bull Ring. Thirty two years to be precise, last time was for an endurance race notable for the fact that Bimota dented the funny-front-end Tesi. One of the riders was Davide Tardozzi.
The place has changed. It feels a lot smaller and has benefited (as real estate agents like it say) from extensive modification. Red Bull have, however, kept a big chunk of the old track. This is a good thing. Trouble is, the old track was bloody dangerous.
True, many of the old track's flat out corners have been remodeled but there are still problems. Braking for Turn 2 from high speed you have the wall uncomfortably close on the right as you go through what is effectively a very fast left. No real problem unless it rains is the verdict.
Exiting from the only two lefts put you very close to a solid wall: that will need attention before next year.
The final corner, Turn 10, has already been modified by reducing its radius by three metres.
That should make it even more of an acceleration test and give Ducati another plus point on a circuit that, from testing timers, would appear to favour them.
However, Marc Marquez was on the beach when that testing was taking place. We'll know a lot more tomorrow once MotoGP machines have been out en masse and in anger.
ENDS
Rossi on The Red Bull Ring: It's Fast, Dangerous ...
thrilling amusement park of top speed
by staff
Thursday, August 11, 2016
'The track is very fast ...' Rossi said in today's pre-event press conference at the Red Bull Ring.
image by Marco Gudetti (the)
While modifications to the Red Bull Ring, located close to Zeltweg, Austria, seem to be fluid--the dodgy final corner has been tightened up since the MotoGP test in July--Valentino Rossi used a word to describe the track today in the MotoGP pre-event press conference that one normally does not hear in modern MotoGP when a new track debuts. "Dangerous."
Rossi said that sections of the very fast Red Bull Ring remain unsafe. The nine-time champion said that the final corner wasn't near the top of his concern list, but that the section leading out of turn eight and others had his attention.
For anyone familiar with the process of a racetrack to be homologated for MotoGP, the open criticism for the Red Bull Ring 24 hours before practice is a remarkable revelation, especially in 2016.
In its defense, the Red Bull Ring is not a track that a MotoGP crew can tune so the bike only uses the first few gears like Valencia. It's a thrilling amusement park of top speed.
"The track is very fast," Rossi said of the Red Bull Ring, "so it is always dangerous."
"The exit of turn eight remains very dangerous," Rossi said. "The wall is very close."
Stoner Not Going To Throw His Hat In The Ring
by dean adams
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Is Casey Stoner ever going to return to MotoGP racing?
The fact that the Red Bull Ring MotoGP event is happening without his participation this weekend is significant.
When Stoner was hired by Ducati as their MotoGP test rider and brand ambassador he gave the Italian manufacturer slightly mixed signals, saying he had zero plans to ever race again, but at the same time suggesting if he did make a wild card appearance in MotoGP it would probably be at the new to the MotoGP schedule Red Bull Ring.
Stoner's presumed reasons for picking the Red Bull Ring were as follows:
However the Stoner comeback probably went from "Maybe" to "No" after Stoner and the Ducati team were among the teams to test at the facility. Stoner, to the surprise of no one, was very fast but he no doubt saw the same thing that most do when they watch on-board video footage from a MotoGP bike at the Red Bull Ring. It's not as safe as one might expect for a new to the schedule MotoGP track.
There are at least two sections on the track that appear scarily unsafe, including the final corner, which is also very fast.
Stoner was going for bragging rights at the test, with a soft tire and light fuel load when he suddenly lost the front and crashed out. It wasn't a fast crash but it was completely unexpected. That, coupled with the safety-level of the track, was probably enough to extinguish any desire for a one-off race by the Australian.
Ducati has entered three bikes for the Red Bull Ring, with Michele Pirro making a wild card appearance.
ENDS
by jules ryder on the ground in Austria
Thursday, August 11, 2016
It is along time since I was at the Osterrreichring, sorry the A1 Ring, I mean the Red Bull Ring. Thirty two years to be precise, last time was for an endurance race notable for the fact that Bimota dented the funny-front-end Tesi. One of the riders was Davide Tardozzi.
The place has changed. It feels a lot smaller and has benefited (as real estate agents like it say) from extensive modification. Red Bull have, however, kept a big chunk of the old track. This is a good thing. Trouble is, the old track was bloody dangerous.
True, many of the old track's flat out corners have been remodeled but there are still problems. Braking for Turn 2 from high speed you have the wall uncomfortably close on the right as you go through what is effectively a very fast left. No real problem unless it rains is the verdict.
Exiting from the only two lefts put you very close to a solid wall: that will need attention before next year.
The final corner, Turn 10, has already been modified by reducing its radius by three metres.
That should make it even more of an acceleration test and give Ducati another plus point on a circuit that, from testing timers, would appear to favour them.
However, Marc Marquez was on the beach when that testing was taking place. We'll know a lot more tomorrow once MotoGP machines have been out en masse and in anger.
ENDS
Rossi on The Red Bull Ring: It's Fast, Dangerous ...
thrilling amusement park of top speed
by staff
Thursday, August 11, 2016
'The track is very fast ...' Rossi said in today's pre-event press conference at the Red Bull Ring.
image by Marco Gudetti (the)
While modifications to the Red Bull Ring, located close to Zeltweg, Austria, seem to be fluid--the dodgy final corner has been tightened up since the MotoGP test in July--Valentino Rossi used a word to describe the track today in the MotoGP pre-event press conference that one normally does not hear in modern MotoGP when a new track debuts. "Dangerous."
Rossi said that sections of the very fast Red Bull Ring remain unsafe. The nine-time champion said that the final corner wasn't near the top of his concern list, but that the section leading out of turn eight and others had his attention.
For anyone familiar with the process of a racetrack to be homologated for MotoGP, the open criticism for the Red Bull Ring 24 hours before practice is a remarkable revelation, especially in 2016.
In its defense, the Red Bull Ring is not a track that a MotoGP crew can tune so the bike only uses the first few gears like Valencia. It's a thrilling amusement park of top speed.
"The track is very fast," Rossi said of the Red Bull Ring, "so it is always dangerous."
"The exit of turn eight remains very dangerous," Rossi said. "The wall is very close."
Stoner Not Going To Throw His Hat In The Ring
by dean adams
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Is Casey Stoner ever going to return to MotoGP racing?
The fact that the Red Bull Ring MotoGP event is happening without his participation this weekend is significant.
When Stoner was hired by Ducati as their MotoGP test rider and brand ambassador he gave the Italian manufacturer slightly mixed signals, saying he had zero plans to ever race again, but at the same time suggesting if he did make a wild card appearance in MotoGP it would probably be at the new to the MotoGP schedule Red Bull Ring.
Stoner's presumed reasons for picking the Red Bull Ring were as follows:
- It's a layout that seems to favor the Ducati MotoGP bike's power output. Meaning it has slow-ish corners followed by WFO for great stretches of lap time.
- In testing, all the Ducatis pegged the needle--Iannone's bike was clocked at over 220 mph.
- There has been limited testing for MotoGP ridrs at the Red Bull Ring. Which, when coupled with a layout that favors the Ducati, makes for fairly favorable conditions when a rider hasn't seen a MotoGP green light in years.
However the Stoner comeback probably went from "Maybe" to "No" after Stoner and the Ducati team were among the teams to test at the facility. Stoner, to the surprise of no one, was very fast but he no doubt saw the same thing that most do when they watch on-board video footage from a MotoGP bike at the Red Bull Ring. It's not as safe as one might expect for a new to the schedule MotoGP track.
There are at least two sections on the track that appear scarily unsafe, including the final corner, which is also very fast.
Stoner was going for bragging rights at the test, with a soft tire and light fuel load when he suddenly lost the front and crashed out. It wasn't a fast crash but it was completely unexpected. That, coupled with the safety-level of the track, was probably enough to extinguish any desire for a one-off race by the Australian.
Ducati has entered three bikes for the Red Bull Ring, with Michele Pirro making a wild card appearance.
ENDS
Guy Martin posts fastest ever Triumph speed – 274.2mph in Utah
by MoreBikes · 10/08/2016
Triumph has released the speed figure it managed with Guy Martin at the controls in the Infor Streamliner during testing at the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday – the twin-Rocket III engined enclosed bike did a best of 274.2mph.
Previously Triumph has logged a best of 245.667mph with Bob Leppan clocking up an unofficial best of 264mph in the famed Gyronaut X-1.
The speed comes at the end of the week’s testing on the Bonneville Salt Flats with the official attempt at the near-400mph record happening later this month.
Guy said: “That’s the testing week for the Triumph streamliner over and it’s gone pretty much according to plan.
“I got the hang of steering the thing pretty quickly then it was a case of building the speed.
“Wind is the big thing out here, so it’s not a case of just jumping in a twisting the throttle. We chipped away and early on Tuesday morning we did 247.2mph, making it the fastest ever Triumph.
“Everyone was dead happy but that’s just one step to where we want to be. The current record is 376.36mph so there’s a way to go yet.”
Guy’s best time is impressive and does set the bar for Triumph so far, but as the Lincolnshire biker says, there’s a long way to go. With around a week to go the outift needs to find another 102.163mph in order to match the current record which was set six years ago.
The history of the task
Triumph has a history of breaking the land speed record, holding the title of ‘World’s Fastest Motorcycle’ between 1955 to 1970. The record-breaking Triumph Streamliners included: Devil’s Arrow, Texas Cee-gar, Dudek Streamliner and Gyronaut X1, the former achieving a top speed of 245.667 mph (395.28 km/h). Today’s record, held by Rocky Robinson since 2010 riding the Top Oil-Ack Attack streamliner, sits at 376.363 mph (605.697 km/h).
by MoreBikes · 10/08/2016
Triumph has released the speed figure it managed with Guy Martin at the controls in the Infor Streamliner during testing at the Bonneville Salt Flats yesterday – the twin-Rocket III engined enclosed bike did a best of 274.2mph.
Previously Triumph has logged a best of 245.667mph with Bob Leppan clocking up an unofficial best of 264mph in the famed Gyronaut X-1.
The speed comes at the end of the week’s testing on the Bonneville Salt Flats with the official attempt at the near-400mph record happening later this month.
Guy said: “That’s the testing week for the Triumph streamliner over and it’s gone pretty much according to plan.
“I got the hang of steering the thing pretty quickly then it was a case of building the speed.
“Wind is the big thing out here, so it’s not a case of just jumping in a twisting the throttle. We chipped away and early on Tuesday morning we did 247.2mph, making it the fastest ever Triumph.
“Everyone was dead happy but that’s just one step to where we want to be. The current record is 376.36mph so there’s a way to go yet.”
Guy’s best time is impressive and does set the bar for Triumph so far, but as the Lincolnshire biker says, there’s a long way to go. With around a week to go the outift needs to find another 102.163mph in order to match the current record which was set six years ago.
The history of the task
Triumph has a history of breaking the land speed record, holding the title of ‘World’s Fastest Motorcycle’ between 1955 to 1970. The record-breaking Triumph Streamliners included: Devil’s Arrow, Texas Cee-gar, Dudek Streamliner and Gyronaut X1, the former achieving a top speed of 245.667 mph (395.28 km/h). Today’s record, held by Rocky Robinson since 2010 riding the Top Oil-Ack Attack streamliner, sits at 376.363 mph (605.697 km/h).
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