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If you want to be the world's fastest cowboy, there's no room for second place. And there's no trophy for just showing up. If you're gonna throttle beyond what's been done before, it's gonna take the perfect machine. The perfect team. It's gonna take the perfect day. A day on the salt is Going for the record or borrowing the record as they say. Al Lam's APL Power Sports team ventured out to the Salt Flats for Mike Cook's 2012 Bonneville shootout with support from the team and the sponsors. It takes an untiring effort from the man. I'm kind of hard on my guys. We don't want second. We want to excel. We're gonna be the fastest bike at the event. We're gonna beat everybody. It doesn't happen with one person or even just the team. There's a whole group of people behind the scenes that help make this happen. To ride a land speed motorcyle takes a kind of a different attitude. You have to first off, you have to love speed. I You have to really I call it you have to I always have a saying that the second sled dog's view is always the same. We don't Our down run was a little over 260. So that put us over our record which we'd set yesterday at 256. There's a lot of nerves you're trying, you're hoping, but you're just like, wow, You're hyper focused on what's going on because you're looking a quarter mile down the track. You're not looking, something seconds. When we first came out here were worried about being able to go more than 218 miles an hour and at this point we've been 265 miles an hour. Our competition's got 50% more displacement than we do and we're still ahead of the game. Holydah-design! With the coconut cream. 2. 5. Entry speed 264. Come on now, hold on, hold on. Kilo speed 265. Oh, yeah! Speed 265. Exit speed 265. 7. And that's how Al-Lam became the world's fastest cowboy. He now holds the FIM AMA land speed record for a sit-on motorcycle at the average Kilo speed of 263. 075 and with the record average mile of 262. 471. Way to go, cowboy! Speed 265. Speed 265.