Well I am certainly getting my motorposrts fix these last couple weekends! Two consecutive weekends of 1/8th mile drag racing on the motorcycle! wow. Way fun. Not super challenging by any means but good cheap clean fun! holy cow.
THe first weekend was the learning curve, this later second weekend was working on techniques and getting shit done! I got through two rounds of bracket last weekend, but this weekend I broke out on the first round against a set up racing sled. I was pumped though because I learned A) how to launch and B) how to do a burnout in the waterbox. I also topped my personal best to-date with a 9.25 ET. Reaction times still leave a lot to wish for, but I am still new at this drag racing on a bike thing (and drag racing period)
Leann came with this last weekend and I actually managed to convince her to run her Grand Am. Good thing I did that too! She Tophied! made it three rounds in elims! Way to go babe! :) an 11.00 dial in did the trick! lol :P
-Gabe :)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
1/8th Mile drags@Humbolt! WEEEEeeee
Holy cow. What a long night last night was! We (the MSU Dragrace Team) gathered at the Auto Lab at 11:30am on saturday for the "drivers meeting" and a quick rundown on how things operate at the dragway. Then we hit the road. An ME named Dan rode down with me and the Zuki which was a nice way to break of the monotony of the drive.
We arrived and payed our entry fee, got a number for the zuki, unloaded, and zipped over to tech. Tech was probably the most relaxed tech inspection I've ever been through. The fellow looked at the bike, checking for obvious leaks probably, and stepped on the rear brake pedal and he was done.
Then we parked the bikes in the bike lane and went back to relax and get suited up. We all got one run in before somebody blew water in the lights and evertyhign came to a halt. Pretty soon all the cars were at the track and there was a line a mile long. Several breakdowns and delays ensued, including a K5 Blazer blowing oil over the entire track. They ended up having to "tire" the entire outer lane.
Everybody just relaxed and talked with other racers. There was quite the mix of cars bikes and trucks there. Eventually I got te run down on ET bracket racing and about 8:30 (two and a half hours behind schedule) I gave a dial-in of 10.37 on Al's recomendation. Since there was only a handful of bikes we drew chips for runing order. I got paired with a full on drag bike and was obviously blown away. Thank goodness for double elim! Second round I got paired with Calvin and his 1200 Harley Sporty. I ended up breaking out, but Calvin beat me to the breakout so I ended up winning! yay! Next round I got paired with Frase and his 883 sporty (probably my closest competition, which is why I ate his subway! haha!) but the track officials didn't know what the hell was going on and sent Frase down the track alone, and I got paired with some street-drag bike, who again blew me away.
My fastest time was a 9.857, best RT was 1.218 which is pretty bad.
great fun and I'll be out there again soon hopefully!
-gabe :)
We arrived and payed our entry fee, got a number for the zuki, unloaded, and zipped over to tech. Tech was probably the most relaxed tech inspection I've ever been through. The fellow looked at the bike, checking for obvious leaks probably, and stepped on the rear brake pedal and he was done.
Then we parked the bikes in the bike lane and went back to relax and get suited up. We all got one run in before somebody blew water in the lights and evertyhign came to a halt. Pretty soon all the cars were at the track and there was a line a mile long. Several breakdowns and delays ensued, including a K5 Blazer blowing oil over the entire track. They ended up having to "tire" the entire outer lane.
Everybody just relaxed and talked with other racers. There was quite the mix of cars bikes and trucks there. Eventually I got te run down on ET bracket racing and about 8:30 (two and a half hours behind schedule) I gave a dial-in of 10.37 on Al's recomendation. Since there was only a handful of bikes we drew chips for runing order. I got paired with a full on drag bike and was obviously blown away. Thank goodness for double elim! Second round I got paired with Calvin and his 1200 Harley Sporty. I ended up breaking out, but Calvin beat me to the breakout so I ended up winning! yay! Next round I got paired with Frase and his 883 sporty (probably my closest competition, which is why I ate his subway! haha!) but the track officials didn't know what the hell was going on and sent Frase down the track alone, and I got paired with some street-drag bike, who again blew me away.
My fastest time was a 9.857, best RT was 1.218 which is pretty bad.
great fun and I'll be out there again soon hopefully!
-gabe :)
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