Ron B

Ron B

Lucky Keiser is alive and well and so is his bike, but in a different shape. The V twin powered bike was really successful, so he decided to build the worlds fasted bike by designing a streamliner to run on Australias’ Salt lake. Lake Gairdner.

I knew lucky reasonbly well in those days(mid 90’s) and helped when he showed up the lake. The engine was made by Lucky when he was an apprentice by cutting two cylinders off the end of a Rolls Royce merlin aero engine (!!) . Not contect with the huge torque,he supercharged it with a blower from a Commer TS3 truck engine.

The streamliner wouldn’t fire at the lake so we towed it and with a volenteer driving it IDLED at just over 1OOmph.

The engine kept playing up so for the next season lucky swapped in a small block Ford V8 … into a two wheel streamliner. Note; he wouldn’t drive it though,even after running Nox on the open bike …. ha ha.

Pictures can be found on the D.L.R.A website.

Ron B
December 14, 2008