VOL. 54 ISSUE 20 MAY 23, 2017 P53
S
alt fever is a sickness for
which there's only one
cure—more of the same—and
47-year-old record-breaker Mark
Bjorklund, from Bellingham, Wash-
ington, has got the Bonneville bug
big-time. Soon as you set one speed
record on the Utah salt flats, you're
already planning how to go faster
next year with something different,
as well as how to fund building it!
Bellingham was best known in
bike terms as the hometown of
former Formula 750 World cham-
pion road racer Steve Baker, whose
huge Yamaha dealership dominates
the local two-wheeled scene. But in
2012 Mark Bjorklund grabbed local
headlines by setting a new 1000cc
A-AG (altered frame, with a normally
aspirated engine, running pump gas)
speed record at 166.360 mph on
the Team Super Rat Ducati S4RS
Monster-based special. This was
concocted in the eponymous cus-
tom shop run by Bjorklund and his
brother Carl in Bellingham, http://
super-rat.com starting out with a
wrecked bike the brothers bought
on eBay!
This is the story about Mark Bjorklund
and his dream of joining the 200 MPH
Club, which came true thanks to a pair
of 2007 Ducati S4RS Monsters
Built and ridden
by Mark Bjorklund
at the Bonneville
Salt Flats in 2016,
Bjorklund rode his
Ducati "Double
Duck" to a new
AMA Land Speed
Record for the
2000 A-AG class.
WELCOME
TO THE
200 MPH
CLUB
BY ALAN CATHCART
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHIL HAWKINS/MARK BJORKLUND
