Dry Lake Racers Australia Speed Week - Lake Gairdner
South Australian motorcycle dealership 'Motorcycle Revolution' and 'Prancing Pony Brewery' announce that the Royal Enfield Continental GT now holds the Australian Land Speed Record for the class '650 MPS-PG' (up to 650cc pushrod engines using pump fuel). The record was set by the team during the 'Dry Lake Racers Australia Speed Week' at Lake Gairdner in the north-west of South Australia.
"The bike had some mild internal modifications such as cams, pushrods, valves and valve springs. A Dynojet Power Commander V was also fitted and then it was dyno tuned, which netted around 40% more power than stock and a slightly higher rev' ceiling.
The fastest speed achieved by the Continental GT was 103.341 mph (166.311 kmh).
The bike performed faultlessly, even in 40+ degree heat, bouncing off the rev limiter in every gear run after run after run, a testament to the engineering that goes into these bikes from the factory" stated Motorcycle Revolution's Jon Guidera. The bike's owner, Frank Samson (head brewer, Prancing Pony Brewery), rode the bike in the record breaking runs.
Site of the DLRA Speed Trials, Lake Gairdner is located in the State of South Australia. Largest of a group of shallow depressions west of Lake Torrens in central South Australia, 240 mi (550 kilometres) northwest of Adelaide, the State capital. It measures 100 mi (160 km) long by 30 mi wide. Lying at the base of the Eyre Peninsula, the lake is a dry salt pan (playa) intermittently filled with water. Visited in 1857 almost simultaneously by Stephen Hack and Peter E. Warburton, it is named after Gordon Gairdner, former chief clerk in the Australian Department of the Colonial Office, London.
Lake Gairdner is the fourth largest salt lake in Australia
The salt covering the Lake can be 1.2 metres deep in some places
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