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Show Sports .SALT FLAT NEWS, DECEMBER, 1970 10 m Special to the NEWS While the Blue Flame was on the salt flats for its lengthy attempt at a new land speed n motorrecord, a cycle crew also broke a land speed record for cycles. On October 16, Cal Raybom n buzzed the salt flats in a streamliner to establish a and sixty-fiv- e mile per hour world motorcycle Harley-Davidso- Harley-Davidso- two-hundr- ed speed record. Raybom put together two runs of d and and sixty-si- x miles an hour for and sixty-fou- r the record average. Previous records for motorcycles were . held by twin engined streamliners. Harleys Davidson believed a single engine could do it and chose a Sportster engine. two-hundrtwo-hundre- V-Tw- in ed Warner Riley of Skokie, Illinois, who has set numerous records in several categories with the Sportster, was chosen to handle the engine work. Fuel mixing was handled by George Smith of Viola, Wisconsin. The Sportster engine was mounted directly ahead of this rear driving wheel in the hybrid streamliner. Dennis Manning of Long Beach, California, designed and built the streamliner, using a computer designed monocoque shell nearly nineteen feet long, twenty five inches high and weighing just under pounds. Raybom drove in a nearly supine position just ahead of the engine, but due to aerodynamic considerations his forward vision was minimal. He was not able to -- five-hundr- ed see directly ahead due to the front tire. Gear plastic panels on either side of the wheel provided a view of the blade stripes which mark the edge of e Bonneville course. the Pneumatically operated skids balanced the streamliner while it was stationary and at low speeds. The skids acted as outriggers until Raybom retracted ten-mil- them at around ster transmissions are often blocked out, using only fourth gear. The streamliner, however, used all four gears. First gear was used to about and fifty m.p.h.; second to about ami thirty m.p.h.; and third gear used to about and fifty m.p.h. rolled onto its side, then upside down and into a series of barrel rolls.. All this at about miles an hour! Raybom was unhurt But the crew had to work through the night and the next day to complete repairs to damaged body one-hundr- , ed one-hundr- ed two-hundr- ed two-hundr- ed panels. In dragster applications. Sport one-hundr- ed miles an hour. The driver would also extend the skids while slowing down, leaning the streamliner to one side and feeling for the skid. On an early run, a skid did not extend to its full length after Raybom went through the timing traps. Cal leaned the streamliner over, feeling for the skid. The partially extended skid dug into the salt, lifting the rear wheel. The bike Driver Raybom looks pensive in cockpit of streamliner. Kurts Caving Contagious NEWS Photos by B. Flanders Harley-Davidso- n record setter gets pt&h off on Bonneville salt. By Virginia Laugh ner You never know where youre going to find an amateur archeologist around here. He may be the guy working on your carburetor. If his name is Kurt, and hes from Wuppertal, youve found one. Before he left West Germany fifteen years ago, Kurt Renneman was a government worker with a desk job, and his hobby was working on race cars. But relatives convinced Kurt that Utah was a good place to live, so he and his Dutch wife emigrated and settled in the Salt Lake Valley. Now his hobby has become his profession (he owns and operates Kurts Carburetor in Salt Lake City) and he has taken up a new hobby. Weekends when the weather is good,' Kurt and his friends load up their gear and head for the Utah Wilderness to search for objects of antiquity. Kurt spreads a handful of. bone punches and arrowheads out on the table. Most of this is between d and years old, he told me. We found a necklace made of bone pellets and seeds ... a spearhead, we think its over five thousand years old,- and an Indian headdress with buffalo horns. It is obvious that he loves his hobby, but he is also concerned that he doesnt destroy the finds for professionals who come after him. We start in one comer and work our way through. Some .people go in and move everything outside, but then you destroy the layers that have accumulated over the centuries. Theyre valuable, they tell half the story. Reminded of the continuing feud between amateur and professionals in the field of archeology, Kurt was quick to add, We always leave one side intact. One area that he plans to explore is in the western mountains near the Salt Flats. They had difficulty getting into the mountains because of a wide stretch of marshy salty land. We tried everything, he . four-whewide , said, tires, Jeeps, drive . . . they wouldn't make it. five-hundr- three-thousan- ed But Kurt is a man of inventive inclination. Hes building his own dune buggy with extra wide tires, and a special drive train, allowing individual control of the rear wheels. The car weighs only eight hundred pounds. With this, he hopes to cross the muddy flats and explore the tempting mountain caves. One Cave we found it took us three or four hours to climb up there it was filled completely with salt. It must have been a salt storage for the Indians high up in the mountains. But its hard work, he added, and dangerous. Its dirty and dry, youre shoveling dust if you got trapped under that, its so fine youd suffocate. So why does he keep going back? I had my answer when Kurt, Accompanied by his German Shepherd, Caisson, rah all the way to his house just' to show me a spearhead that he was especially proud of. As long as there are unexplored areas of the world, there will be men like Kurt Renneman, who will go out to discover whats there. ... ... ... - .clothing 201 South 1300 East Salt Lake City el - ; . v Ely Receives Utah "Cement " Special to the NEWS ELY, Nev. Copper cement processed in southern Utah is being shipped here for sale to Westinghouse Corp. and custom refinement by the Kennecott Copper Corp. refinery at Ely. The Cement, about, eighty-fiv- e per cent copper, is produced copper by the Keystone-Wallac- e mine and mill complex at Moab, Utah. The complex in the Big Indian Mining District of Utah is processing about two-thousa- nd tons of copper ore daily from its acid-leac- h mill, with ore being mined from open pit operations. Shipments of copper cement to Nevada have totaled thousand pounds a month, according to Bob Dalton, manager of the operation. -- - six-hundr- ed . |
