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Didnt see this posted here yet:
WENDOVER, Utah — A 47-year-old record-setting motorcycle racer has died after losing control and crashing while traveling at 239 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
Investigators were not sure what caused Cliff Gullett, of Bozeman, Mont., to lose control of the motorcycle Wednesday during a time trial.
The American Motorcyclist Association said on its Web site that Gullett was competing in the 500cc Streamliner class at the Salt Flats, where drivers go for speed records every summer on the open space just east of the Nevada state line.
Gullett owned Team Bozeman Motorsports, a motorcycle and snowmobile dealership. He had set a handful of world land-speed records and wanted to eventually become the first to reach 400 mph on a two-wheeled Streamliner, according to an interview last week with The Billings Gazette.
Curt Lance, Team Bozeman's general manager, said "Cliff always told me that if anything happened on the Salt, he wanted it to be quick and not lingering. He died doing the thing he loved to do most — racing at Bonneville."
WENDOVER, Utah — A 47-year-old record-setting motorcycle racer has died after losing control and crashing while traveling at 239 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
Investigators were not sure what caused Cliff Gullett, of Bozeman, Mont., to lose control of the motorcycle Wednesday during a time trial.
The American Motorcyclist Association said on its Web site that Gullett was competing in the 500cc Streamliner class at the Salt Flats, where drivers go for speed records every summer on the open space just east of the Nevada state line.
Gullett owned Team Bozeman Motorsports, a motorcycle and snowmobile dealership. He had set a handful of world land-speed records and wanted to eventually become the first to reach 400 mph on a two-wheeled Streamliner, according to an interview last week with The Billings Gazette.
Curt Lance, Team Bozeman's general manager, said "Cliff always told me that if anything happened on the Salt, he wanted it to be quick and not lingering. He died doing the thing he loved to do most — racing at Bonneville."
hope your wife stays clean,,,,,,,I have been going rounds for 6 years with it, looks good this for year,,,,, bike riding days were from 1952 till 1963, dont think I could kick one over now,,,,,,,,,come to think of it I know I couldnt......2 artifical knees,,,,,elec start any one................
started riding in 51 on a 250cc jawa, than a bunch of bsa's, got fairly good and in 1953 picked up several local shop rides, in 1956 got picked up by the Indian, matchless , royal enfield factory ( royal enfield bought out Indian in 1954, they put Indian name on the royal enfield) out of springfield mass, full factory ride till I came home in 61, sure was a lot of fun for a kid...........started snowmobiles in 1969 still riding today, the wife and I do about 600 to 800 miles a year, she is 65 and I am 72, will head to the south country for quad riding till dec than back here for the sleds, sure glad I can still do it.......................
I know he was doing what he loved.