BUILDER / ISSUE 3 2019 / 83the weight to a ridiculously low 192
pounds dry: a flick knife on the track.
“You think it and it’s there,” he
says.
Another Daytona victory, on his
Norton, was particularly sweet. He’d
been banned by the American His-
toric Racing Motorcycle Association
for a year, and in his first race back,
he won.
“AHRMA pissed me off, and I told
them what I thought about them
in no uncertain terms,” Tuluie says.
“And they suspended me.”
As a “welcome back,” he was
gridded in 63rd position at Daytona.
He ripped around the outside of the
pack as riders bunched up tight on
the inside, and was fifth after lap
one, then drafted to the win on the
last lap. AHRMA was displeased and
insisted on tearing down his bike af-
ter the race even though no one had
protested—and it was legal.
“The revenge was so lovely,” he
says.
LEFT/BELOW: The Tul-Aris is kept in ready-to-
race condition, and comes out to play at
select events like the Goodwood Revival.