Elmer Trett with his first drag bike, his 1969 Harley Davidson XLCH, which he bought new in 1969
There and then, with the double deaths of Top Fuel driver Blaine Johnson and Top Fuel Motorcycle racer Elmer Trett at the 1996 U.S. Nationals, Weisenbach got a harsh introduction to the unforgiving and sobering side of racing.
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0:00 / 2:08 Late, Great Top Fuel Motorcycle Pilot Elmer Trett, Final Qualifying Atlanta 1987 CycleDrag 567K subscribers Subscribe Subscribed 10K views 5 years ago Here is another qualifying run.
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January 5, 2010. Person of the Week "Legends" Elmer Trett. Vol. 2, Issue 1. Wednesday, January 6, 2010. Elmer Trett, The Father of Modern-Day Motorcycle Drag Racing. Photos by: Larry "Rabbit" Smith, Dave Kommel, Matt Polito, and unknown. In most industries, be it sports, entertainment, commerce, industrial or politics, it takes either a.
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Elmer Trett suffered severe head injuries about 1:30 p.m. Sunday when he was lifted from his motorcycle after completing a 232 mph exhibition run at Indianapolis Raceway Park.Trett, 53, of Demorest, Ga., was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis about an hour later, said hospital spokeswoman Treva Jones.
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Elmer Trett Birth 14 Mar 1943 Keavy, Laurel County, Kentucky, USA Death 1 Sep 1996 (aged 53) Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA Burial Fairfield Baptist Church Cemetery Fairview, Habersham County, Georgia, USA Memorial ID 48010569 · View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region North America USA Georgia Habersham County
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Elmer Trett was first to exceed 200mph, 210 mph, 230 mph; he was always at the cutting edge of engine performance, chassis design and traction engineering, to say nothing of having fantastic reflexes and riding skills.. The day I met Elmer was the day of his death, at the U.S. Nationals at Clermont Indiana, I went to his pit area.
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Born in Keavy, Kentucky on March 14, 1943, Trett started drag racing in the late 1960s at Thornhill Dragway in Kenton, Kentucky. His first racing machine was his Harley-Davidson street bike. Trett owned a motorcycle performance shop in Hamilton, Ohio, and worked primarily on Harley-Davidsons.
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Sept. 1, 1996 Top Fuel Motorcycle rider Elmer Trett died from injuries suffered in an accident Sunday during an exhibition pass at the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Trett,.
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August 16, 2023 Facebook On September 1, 1996 motorcycle drag racing lost perhaps the greatest Top Fuel rider in the sport's history when Elmer Trett came off his motorcycle at the top end of Indianapolis Raceway Park. Trett was a trendsetting genius in the world of drag bike racing.
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Remembering Elmer Trett Like Comment Share 150 · 2 comments · 6.5K views CycleDrag September 1, 2023 · Follow A look back at one of the greatest motorcycle drag racers of all-time 27 years after his death Most relevant Scott Bacon I remember him as one hell of a nice guy. I think he was the first to turn the engine around. 2 18w Rick Bane
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Still Influential and Greatly Missed - Elmer Trett Jack Korpela September 1, 2023 It has been over 27 years since, arguably, the most prominent and esteemed motorcycle drag racer tragically lost his life while competing at the 1996 NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, Ind. Today, Elmer Trett's tremendous influence and legacy is still felt.
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Elmer Trett was born March 14th, 1943 in Corbin, Kentucky, the youngest of nine children. He grew up in the woods of Kentucky, attended local school, walked there mostly, and he quit school after his eighth-grade year. Elmer had places to go and a whole world to explore and in his young mind, school just got in the way at the time.
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Dragster pilot Blaine Johnson, motorcycle veteran Elmer Trett died in 1996 crashes separated by about 24 hours. By Susan Wade Published: Sep 3, 2021 Jamie Squire // Getty Images The NHRA.
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It's known as "The Big Bang.". A day when two great motorcycle fuel racers went to a drag strip, didn't make a single pass, blew their stuff up, packed up and went home. Even the best of the best have a bad day now and then. When nitromethane racing, a big bang will do that. Nitromethane is a hard, merciless, teacher.
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Elmer Trett, 53 year old driver of a Top Fuel Motorcycle, had just completed an exhibition run at over 232 mph when the bike began to wobble. He lost control and was thrown from the bike. He.
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Elmer Trett (lost footage of fatal Top Fuel Motorcycle drag racing crash; 1996) This article has been tagged as NSFL due to its discussion of a fatal motor racing accident.