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FLAT OUT

The Race for the Motorcycle World Land Speed Record

Available NOW at your favorite internet retailer. Or, ask for it by name at your local bookstore. If you want an autographed copy, send Rocky an email and find out how.

This is Rocky Robinson’s first nonfiction book, and is intended to put you in the driver’s seat of one of, if not the fastest motorcycle ever built. Ever wonder what it’s like to go faster than anyone else has ever gone? Try 350 mph on for size. This is not your everyday, routine mystery or cookie-cutter thriller.

The intensity is real. From his early days of racing motorcycles on ½ mile and mile ovals on 750cc V Twin motorcycles, to land speed racing and crossing the pond to the Land Down Under, where his best run resulted in a blown engine, coasting through the timing lights with the rods snapped, the motor bleeding oil into it’s enclosed bodywork—threatening to ignite into a blistering inferno. This pass was made in March of 2000, and is still the fastest recorded speed anyone has traveled on two wheels in Lake Gairdner, Australia.

The ups and downs of racing for big bucks sponsors, whose money does funny things to those whose job it is to keep you safe and pointed in the right direction. This story digs deep into the sport’s past and tells of plans for the future. It tells of fallen heroes and of lost friendships all in the name of proving who’s fastest.

It’s about second chances—and not taking them lightly. In order to come out on top in this type of sport you’ve got to want it and be willing to sacrifice everything to achieve nothing more than a printout on a piece of paper. But that paper carries a lot of weight, because only one person can be the recipient. And at that very moment, he has no equal…