100ft Holeshot Drag Races
Posted: July 31st, 2011, 7:13 pm
So I decided to get in on some drag racing with the 500. The oval speedway near my house was running this: http://100footdrags.com/default.aspx. 100ft keeps the speeds down and I guess that equals out to be safer?
My best time was 2.63 seconds on the tarmac with a stock bike running an intermediate MX tire. My friend on his TRX250R with a YZ426 motor and holeshot tires was running nearly the same times. For reference, there was a real dragster there with a dial-in of 2.44 and an MGB car with a Ford 302 V8 stuffed in running 2.55. Anyway, my bud and I both dialed in at 2.65 for the eliminations and went head-to-head. He got me by 0.10
I had to run in 3rd gear because of the 12/49 sprockets that were on my bike. I knew 1st would be useless and I tried 2nd during test-and-tune, but that resulted in wheelies that had me backing off the throttle around the 50ft mark.
No footage from the first race. Couldn't get a cameraman in time. I plan on going again to try and best my quickest time. Just finished mounting up a street tire and squashed the forks down. Any chance of damaging the internals of the forks if I leave them squashed for a week?
This is the new tire I'm using
My best time was 2.63 seconds on the tarmac with a stock bike running an intermediate MX tire. My friend on his TRX250R with a YZ426 motor and holeshot tires was running nearly the same times. For reference, there was a real dragster there with a dial-in of 2.44 and an MGB car with a Ford 302 V8 stuffed in running 2.55. Anyway, my bud and I both dialed in at 2.65 for the eliminations and went head-to-head. He got me by 0.10
I had to run in 3rd gear because of the 12/49 sprockets that were on my bike. I knew 1st would be useless and I tried 2nd during test-and-tune, but that resulted in wheelies that had me backing off the throttle around the 50ft mark.
No footage from the first race. Couldn't get a cameraman in time. I plan on going again to try and best my quickest time. Just finished mounting up a street tire and squashed the forks down. Any chance of damaging the internals of the forks if I leave them squashed for a week?
This is the new tire I'm using