Saturday is the big day for the Bike Show, the 25th year.
It was a sunny and warm day for the bike show.
The two people that make the bike shows and international bike shows happen,
Big Daddy Rat and Wolfgang Scholler.
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The sidecar class
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The three wheel class
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The Ratclass
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The unusual class
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The classic (antique) class
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The top four winners that go to Germany
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The Ratmates
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Trophies and first place winners of the 16 classes.
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The Scottish band from Daytona Beach.
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The 1997 RamJet
The 1997 Dodge Ram Club Cab is powered by a J-60 Pratt&Whitney turbojet with
full afterburner. It develops 5,500 pounds of thrust and 7,200 H.P. The engine was removed
from a Sabreliner airplane. The cab, fenders, headlights, taillights, grill, and the third
brake light are stock Dodge components. The rest of the body is fiberglass provided by GTS
Fiberglass of Wentzville, MO. The fuel capacity is 30 gallons and the engine consumes
about 25 gallons in a quarter mile run. The fuel of choice is No. 1 kerosene. The RamJet
is capable of speeds over 300 M.P.H. The engine is normally run at approx. 102% (percent)
of available R.P.M. The engine weighs about 500 pounds and the RamJet curb weight is about
1900 pounds.
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We have 6 1/2 minutes burnout by Jim Noble of Azalia, MI on a 1947
FL(knucklehead) Harley-Davidson at the Iron Horse.
Frames new-1.jpg to new-39.jpg are 10 seconds increments of the burnout. New-1.jpg is when
the wheel started spinning and new-39.jpg is about 2 seconds after the completion of the
burnout.
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Since I didn't have my tape recorder, we have low quality recording of the burnout. 6
seconds into the .wav file, the wheel started to spin.
Click here 4.25Mb .wav file.
Click here to hear the interview with Big Daddy Rat about his 25th Bike Show at BikeWeek 97.
For people with slow(or bad) connections, through proxy servers (AOL, Asia-Pacific nations) or any other problems, here are .wav files of Big Daddy Rat's interview.
Special Guests and Events at
the Bike Show 583kb .wav
The 16 Classes of Competition 345kb .wav
The Ratmates 280kb .wav
Arizona BikeWeek Show 389kb .wav
BDR Home Pages 261kb .wav
Canada Bike Show 344kb .wav
Sturgis S.D. Bike Show 383kb .wav
Trophies 269kb .wav
In The Beginning 519kb .wav
In The Beginning Part 2 372kb .wav
Thursday Picture from Main Street, on new motorcycle prototypes, 1903 Harley-Davidson, and the Tattoo Contest.
Saturday Big Daddy Rat Bike Show
