Students' Project Sets US Motorcycle Speed Record

By Steve Israel
Times Herald-Record
PINE BUSH — Can you imagine the odds of a bunch of kids building a motorcycle that sets a national land speed record in one of the world's most barren and brutal settings — the Bonneville Salt Flats?
       That's a bunch of kids that includes one who's been arrested 14 times, another who ran with the Latin Kings gang and several who, just a few years ago, spent more time cutting classes at Pine Bush High School than attending them.
      "Way beyond 100 to one," says Lloyd Greer, "just astronomical."
       Greer and the kids from Pine Bush High School's STARS Academy built the red 2000 cc, 195-horsepower Victory bike at Greer's Pine Bush motorcycle shop, Lloyd'z Motorworkz. They were in Utah last week, where their bike set a land speed record of 172 mph.

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