Forwarded from the NEDRA list. Mike is the NEDRA president. Great post, and great to hear 20+ school buses of kids were exposed to EVs!
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From: Mike Willmon <[email protected]>
To: NEDRA <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, September 16, 2010 11:10:58 PM
Subject: [NEDRA] Killa Joule on the salt
Hi all, just a quick blurb on the Killa Joule status. I won't steal
all Eva's thunder (or should I say lightning) but wanted to give a
quick status. Still no complete run. First tenth of a mile and the
landing gear came up too early. With the landing gear touching the
ground Eva could not tell when the bike was stable enough to raise the
gear. Some old timers with a streamliner bike said to shim the gear
off the ground. Did so and then she was able to feel when the bike
went neutral, but that then revealed a steering misalignment of
sorts. We worked on that today, will make a test run outside the pits
in the morning to see if the tweak helped. Then hope to get a full
run in. As Eva said nobody has a book written yet on how to build and
run a streamliner bike. But she's working on a post to the Killacycle
Face Book page. I'll cross post it here, but check the Killacycle FB
page for up to date posts tomorrow
Oh yeah and I want to say what an honor it was to have Roger Hedlund
here today visiting, answering questions not only from us, but by the
general public. He was amazed at how the turnout to the Salt Flats had
grown in the 30 some odd years since he was there. I was dismayed
though that there were not many more electrics to show for it since
his and a few others performances back in the early 1970's :-( But it
was a fun day. Several members got to chat with Roger and when we got
on the topic of blowing up batteries I had to ask Roger if he had
blown up any. He described about every kind of battricide that I have
seen. Surely it was he truth from a man running an electric over 100
mph in the 1/4 mile over 36 years ago

He was wondering just how
many were in "his" club. I told him not nearly enough.
There were school bus loads of kids showing up (I counted over 20 and
I know there were some I missed) thanks to Kent and Brent Singleton
who set it up with USFRA so that kids showing up in school busses get
in free. And guess where they parked? Both sides of the NEDRA and
Killa Joule trailers

lots of onlookers when we were in the pits.
More later. This is way too much fun. I got it. Salt fever. They
warned me it was contageous. But did I listen? 'course not ;-)
way
Mike