My new hotrod for the dragstrip

I already had the Taco...and I normally ride my 93 VFR on the street. I'd hate to have choose....

 

Cool bike man. Drag bike were never my style, but I'm cool with anything on 2 wheels. I always preferred the twisties to straight line balls out speed runs.

My last bike was an 04 Buell XB12R Firebolt that I bought new back in 04. When I finished my Master's in February of 08 I decided to sell it to make room in my budget for the student loan payments. A guy bought it in April of 08 and within 48 hours he had crashed it and it got stolen. The guy didn't have full coverage insurance on it, so I'm sure he enjoyed making payments on a bike that he had for less than 48 hours. I'm so glad I didn't let him have the bike until his payment cleared!

Here is some pics. I spent so much time modding that bike. It killed me when I found out it was stolen.... The first pic was stock and the second was just before I sold it.

 

oh, I like the twisty stuff as well.

 

BTW....for the losers that have left me neg rep for my choice of NOT wanting to hear the safetycrat preaching from Pster (even after I asked him NOT to go there)....have some balls and put your login. Spineless internet losers hiding behind your keyboard. Pathetic.

 

Impressive. I have quite a bit of respect for you guys that have the balls to battle the crazies out on the road.

At one point I had an old Honda Hawk 650 but decided to keep the wheels to the dirt and stick to dirt bikes.

 

I installed an air shifter and tried a minor regear last night...the gearing I didn't like and will change back.
Here's the runs in order:
60'......330'......1/8th............1/4
1.71 / 4.32 / 6.40@118.48 / 9.71@147.44
1.65 / 4.19 / 6.22@121.19 / 9.48@148.92
1.69 / 4.24 / 6.27@120.62 / 9.55@148.62
1.67 / 4.26 / 6.31@119.81 / 9.60@148.23
1.86 / 4.50 / 6.55@120.06 / 9.84@148.40 Spun out of the hole
1.65 / 4.18 / 6.22@120.09 / 9.51@147.5
1.68 / 4.19 / 6.22@121.30 / 9.49@148.10
1.66 / 4.18 / 6.20@121.45 / 9.47@148.18
1.70 / 4.30 / 6.33@120.85 / 9.61@148.48 Spun out of the hole
1.68 / 4.24 / 6.28@119.89 / 9.57@147.96
1.66 / 4.19 / 6.23@120.25 / 9.51@148.31
1.68 / 4.24 / 6.34@112.81 / 9.76@142.04 Foot shifted 1-2 then hit the limiter while thinking to myself (what the hell are you footshifitng for? ). Put it on the trailer after that run... __________________





There was also a supercharged SWB doublecab 4x4 running 14.1s @ 97mph. Doing pretty damn good. Didn't get a chance to talk to the guy...

 

very impressive runs.

I want to feel the forces of 9.5 seconds I could only imagine.

 

x2

 

Thanks. It's a blast. Frustrating sometimes, as it's not easy to put a complete run together every pass. I did manage to run a 9.46 last night dropping my PB a 1/100th.
I plan on removing the secondary flies out of the throttle bodies and remapping this week to see if that will change anything. I can see 9.3 with this set up...I just have to do MY part and ride it hard out of the hole.

 

ran 9.32 Friday night. Finally broke through my 60' barrier and am dropping my short times again. Pulled a 1.56 60' to run that 9.32. Pretty stoked and still short wheelbase!

 

wholly shit. I can't even imagine that. Do you know the G's it pulls doing that?