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Show 4 f 4 245667 MM it: ; ' "tt. w"'. , . '" Members of the Triumph motorcycle racing team headquartered at the Inca Inn this past weekend. They traveled in World's Fastest Motorbike Rider Visits Moab Area Will 1mm The world's fastest motorcycle mot-orcycle rider visited the Moab area this past weekend week-end for a few days of trail riding. . World famous Bob Lep-pan Lep-pan of Detroit, Michigan and five members of the Triumph racing team spent a few days exploring the Moab country's trails, making mak-ing their headquarters in the Inca Inn. Leppan holds the world speed record in motorcycle motorcy-cle racing. His time of camper pulling their trailer and motorcycles motor-cycles to the Canyonlands area. 245.667 miles per hour was set in 1966 on the Bonneville Bonne-ville Salt Flats. Leppan became interested interest-ed in seeing Canyonlands National Park as a result of a short news film he saw some time ago. He also read of the Moab Slickrock Bike Trail in an article written by Dick Wilson in Cycle World Magazine. Of the bike trail Leppan said, "This could turn into in-to a real big thing. Persons Pers-ons think nothing of going go-ing 2000 miles to ski and will do the same to go motorcycling in an area such as Moab's." The racing team spent a few hours on the Slick-rock Slick-rock Bike Trail and also explored a section of Canyonlands Can-yonlands in the vicinity of the Shafer Trail. "It would be possible to have the World and National Championship Trials on the Slickrock," stated champion rider, Bob Leppan. These are observed and timed events which take place in a marked section consisting of sharp turns on banked slopes. "The Moab slickrock would be an excellent surface sur-face on which to devise this kind of course," Leppan Lep-pan told The Times-Independent. Leppan and the racing team plan to spend more time in this area next year. |