Bike Garage - Projection 156 Race To The Clouds

Victory Project156 , receive to race on Pikes Peak . By Roand Sands

Victory Racing is heading total restrain to the overstep of the highest-elevation racecourse inwards motorsports, the 2015 Pikes Peak Hill Climb on June 28. Victory Racing’s “Project 156” – named for the position out of turns on the mount route – features a hand-built race bike powered past times a epitome Victory engine. Committed to demonstrating Victory Performance inwards demanding racing conditions, members of the Victory Engineering squad are precision-tuning.

THIS RACE PROTOTYPE ENGINE TO
DELIVER VERSATILE, RELIABLE POWER
TO COMPETE AT PIKES PEAK.
The Victory Racing Project 156 bike is beingness built past times Roland Sands Design, which is led past times primary custom builder together with one-time basis champion racer Roland Sands. Veteran racer together with Cycle World Road Test Editor Don Canet, who finished 3rd inwards the motorbike shape at Pikes Peak concluding year, volition airplane pilot the bike.

FAST FACTS ABOUT PIKES PEAK HILL CLIMB
Located merely W of Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak is named for Lt. Zebulon Pike, who sighted it inwards 1806 on a regime exploration trip
Pike failed inwards his endeavour to accomplish the peak together with believed no 1 would always summit the mountain
The thought from the peak inspired Katherine Lee Bates inwards 1893 to write “America the Beautiful”
Second oldest race inwards American Motorsports
The Pikes Peak Hill Climb has been run since 1916, except during nation of war years, then the 2015 effect volition last the 93rd race
The 12.42-mile, 152-turn racecourse runs from 9,390-foot elevation upwardly to 14,115 feet at the peak
Previously featuring a mix of gravel together with pavement, the route became fully paved inwards 2011
Don Canet, who volition race the Victory Racing entry, finished his run inwards 10 minutes, 10.101 seconds inwards the 2014 race
Don averaged 70.808 mph together with finished 3rd alongside motorcycles, 11th-best overall
Hill climb history is featured at the Penrose Heritage Museum on the W side of Colorado Springs
For to a greater extent than race info, see www.ppihc.com
JOIN VICTORY AT THE AVR & PIKES PEAK
Victory owners tin give the axe bring together Victory inwards Colorado Springs for the ultimate Pikes Peak experience:
The action-packed American Victory Rally (AVR) volition last held inwards the Colorado Springs area, June 25-28.
Victory owners accept the exclusive chance to ride their bikes to the summit of Pikes Peak on June 27, the solar daytime earlier the race.
Plus, Victory has secured a premium colina climb viewing expanse on the mount solely for Victory owners.
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