Canadian team heads back to Bonneville

From SUPERSHOW Events

TORONTO, ON – Bob Williams and his Team Arrow racing crew, including this year’s new pilot, Dave Lloyd of Komoka, ON are on their way to Utah for the BUB International Motorcycle Speed Trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats to break a 50-year standing World Land Speed Record.

Sponsored by the North American International Motorcycle SUPERSHOW, the streamliner is going for the 500cc record, which has stood since 1956 when it was set by an NSU Motorcycle at 339 km/h (211mph)

Last year’s attempt at the same record, with SUPERSHOW Producer Bar Hodgson piloting, at the age of 71, ended in a spectacular 185 mph (297 km/h) crash during Bonneville Speed Week. That crash ended the team’s efforts for the record in 2008 but the streamliner (a turbocharged Honda-engine based 500cc enclosed motorcycle built by Bob Williams of Windsor) was repaired and rebuilt with the intention of going after the record again during the 2009 BUB Meet.

The event runs from Aug. 29-Sept. 3.