Description The phrase Bonneville Salt Flats strikes a chord with any true gear-head.
For motorcycle enthusiasts the allure is even stronger.
How to Build a Bonneville Salt Flats Motorcycle documents the construction of The Worlds Fastest Panhead, conceived and assembled by Keith R.
Ball, former editor of Easyriders magazine and current owner of Bikernet.
com, the most popular biker stop on the internet.
Keith walks the reader through all the steps and all the hassles of creating a true Bonneville Salt Flat motorcycle.
From choosing a class to picking a frame, from finding an engine builder to minimizing the aerodynamic drag at 200 miles per hour, Keith explains the how and the why of building The World's Fastest Panhead.
A project of this size is bound to suffer setbacks.
Keith Ball uses a personal, narrative style to take the readers on a wild ride - through the ups and down of building his dream Panhead.
So come along for the ride, down the salt with the world's best-known motorcycle journalist.
About the Author Keith Ball is quite simply an instiution in the world of custom Harleys and V-Twin motorcycles.
For 20 years Keith served as editor of Easyriders magazine, and in that postion came to know all the major and minor motorcyle builders throughout the US and the world.
Today, Keith runs bikernet.
com, a very biker-friendly web site with features on everything from how-to articles to pin up girls in his cantina.
Longtime rider and builder of custom bikes of his own, Keith has now turned his talents and networking abilities to the construction of The World's Fastest Panhead.
Wolfgang Publications H-t build a bonneville salt flats motorcycle: world's fastest panhead, paperback/keith r. ball
