Dean Veale sets new land speed record at Bonneville

**Lurch** · 13th August 2009, 10:06

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsp...-speed-record/

194.5mph on the White Elephant! good shit.

**R6_kid:Me** · 13th August 2009, 10:21

That bit about the umbrella at the end is pretty classic!

**NZsarge** · 13th August 2009, 10:42

Congatulations to Dean and his crew from the Sargent Family.

**Korumba** · 13th August 2009, 12:46

I just saw this I think this guy is over there with Alan Thoresen.
Man I would like so much to be there again this year.

Photo here as well http://www.motorcycletrader.co.nz/Vi...5&N=4294967261

Dean Veale broke the record riding White Elephant, his special construction Hayabusa engine motorcycle.

With the existing record standing at 191.593mph (305kph), Veale confirmed his initial record breaking run of yesterday with a second “backup” run that set the new record at an average of 194.5mph (311.2kph).

Having come close two days earlier only to have changing track conditions see Veale miss the record by 0.5mph (0.8kph), this mornings conditions were near perfect.

Veale was his normal reserved self allowing himself only a satisfactory smile as he waited in the impound area to have the motorcycle stripped to confirm the legality of White Elephant for the 1650cc A-G Class. Extending his hand toward Veale, the inspector offered his congratulations as he confirmed the record with the words: “Welcome to the record books”.

**Morcs** · 13th August 2009, 12:52

Good stuff.

FUnny though how many other people think they are in the three hundy club though lol.

**wharfy** · 13th August 2009, 12:58

Originally Posted by Korumba

I just saw this I think this guy is over there with Alan Thoresen.
Man I would like so much to be there again this year.

Photo here as well http://www.motorcycletrader.co.nz/Vi...5&N=4294967261

.

He is indeed over there with Alan, it is pretty cool.
They will both be going to Aus. to represent NZ in a Drag race series as well.

(They are both current NZ drag race champions in their respective classes)

**car** · 13th August 2009, 14:03

Originally Posted by Lurch

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsp...-speed-record/

194.5mph on the White Elephant! good shit.

This is an honest question, because I'm obviously missing something somewhere, but the stock, original GSXR1300 was clocked at more than 195mph. I remember various mags airstrip testing it to see if it really could reach the 200mph claimed in the sales bumph. Not quite, but close, was the answer.

Like I say, I've obviously missed something about the class or the specifics of the record. Anyone care to enlighten me?

**R6_kid:Me** · 13th August 2009, 14:59

Originally Posted by car

Like I say, I've obviously missed something about the class or the specifics of the record. Anyone care to enlighten me?

What it says on the speedo, and what it's actually doing across the ground are more often than not two very different speeds.

At the end of the day, an indicated 328kmh (i believe that was the claim) for the Hyabusa is more than fast enough for 99.9% of people. The fact that you may only really be doing 280kmh will be the last thing you care about when doing so... 285kmh indicated was more than fast enough for me on my old GSXR1000K3

**Lurch** · 13th August 2009, 15:04

I believe that the class the record was for is the 1650cc A-G class. This means the frame is classified as Altered (Special Construction) and the engine is classified as Modified (and Gasoline)

And car is right that this isn't the fastest Hayabusa on earth.

**CHOPPA** · 13th August 2009, 15:09

Seems strange to me that they have to do all those mods to the bike and go all the way over there to do the same speed as John Hepburn did (191.08mph) on a basically standard bike on some back road in the south island??? But good on em! If thats what i enjoyed id do the same...

**YellowDog** · 13th August 2009, 15:44

>300kph is really quick.

Full credit for having the guts to hold the speed, but there isn't much riding to be done at that sort of speed.

The back room boys must have done something quite special to get the horses up so high.

**phantom67** · 13th August 2009, 17:06

I don't get it. How can the land speed record only be a bit over 300km/h, when, as I recall, Max Biaggi did 320+km/h at Monza during WSBK, and the MotoGP riders regularly do well over 300?

**Deano** · 13th August 2009, 17:09

Originally Posted by phantom67

I don't get it. How can the land speed record only be a bit over 300km/h, when, as I recall, Max Biaggi did 320+km/h at Monza during WSBK, and the MotoGP riders regularly do well over 300?

Depends on the class.

Dean never cracked 300kph at the cliffhanger sprints, so good on him for getting the record now.

We saw a fairly stock Gixxer do 306 and a bog standard R1 do 301. It shows you need to a lot of work to get every extra kph over 310.