Started thinking about those days of street racing and traveling all over hell. This was taken at Byron race track. Trying to be sneaky so no one knew what the bikes we were running clocked at. Never worked though, rumors spread like hot cakes on the street, and times were changing, and technology fast.
Lots of big drug dealers racing on the street it was getting to expensive and the pots were just too big to deal with those people.
This is one of my friends bikes Bob Cook. This bike ran consistent 8:50's 156mph. Frame was lowered and raked. I think this was his 1275 motor. You can see in the front of his shin, the round cylinder air shifter. You just used the clutch to launch and it was push button to change gears.
Took this bike to the nationals in Kentucky. Vance and Hines had there Suziki there, with the four valve per cylinder head. Same class, straight racing fuel, no Nitrous. That Suzuki ran a 7:59 I believe. Cooks bike did not even qualify. WTF. That was the final nail in the coffin.