Almost but not quite at Bonneville
Luck just wasn't on Sam Wheeler's side. After making one run in excess of 334 mph, gusting winds prevented the ZX-11-powered streamliner from making the return run necessary for an official world record.

The streamliners run
The big boys came out to play at the Bonneville Salt Flats Thursday, as the streamliners took to the salt, with Sam Wheeler's turbocharged Kawasaki ZX-11-based machine posting the day's biggest number.

Read 'em and weep (The rules that is)
When you're trying to set speed records with a 2.5cc engine, creative rules interpretation can be more important than engineering.

You gotta love these guys
The Bonneville salt, it seems, does crazy things to people. While some come to the home of speed in the Utah desert to chase after the top prize--the absolute motorcycle land speed record of more than 322 mph--others become obsessed with answering the question at the other end of the continuum: How fast can you go with the smallest motor? Wednesday was the day for those crazies to shine.

Teams gather in Bonneville in pursuit of world records
Welcome to the Bonneville Salt Flats, where some of the fastest motorcycles on the planet have gathered this week with one goal in mind: To break the absolute motorcycle land speed record. All they have to do is go in excess of 322.149 mph--a record set by Dave Campos on an Easyriders Magazine-sponsored streamliner in 1990.