Bonneville Bullett...226 Begat 8228
226 "Blue Bike" aka "Big Blue"
Time
It all starts somewhere. It can be a single glance and you're head over heels in love or, perhaps, it's just the North side of 1960 and Donald Campbell shows up in Wendover and the sheer insanity of tilting fate against the great white dyno gets planted somewhere. Mike Geokan took a 51 year detour from that seminal 1960 meeting in Wendover embark on a trip to Viet Nam courtesy of Uncle Sam, spend 40 years as an Outlaw Biker, write several books, raise a beautiful daughter, became a grandfather, and some 29 years after that fateful meeting return to the Bonneville Salt Falts to set speed records with a bike of his own design...#226, and finally to start a new chapter.
31 years after Mike met Donald Campbell and his Bluebird crew he decided to build a new bike and began work on a successor to #226. Having turned down an offer to go to law school and deciding riding a 21" over Pan Head around the country was more important than finishing college, he began work on his vision. Those seeds can remain dormant for decades.
8228 "Bonneville Bullett"
Chronology....
We have provided links in chronological order of the how, when, and where...but not necessarily why this shit takes place. The "why" we leave to shrinks, accountants, and people who know better than us. Ideas are dangerous...actually putting them into practice even more so. There are casualties, there always are. Hang on, it's going to be a long bumpy ride. Men in Black.
Take some time to visit the above web pages. Top to bottom they provide a chronological history of a particular form of madness that drains your bank account and condemns you and others to a particular form of solitary confinement in work shops.
Some pages are quite long so this is a long read. In Mike's case, over 20 years.
