Drag strip trip.

Nice be able to have a little more fun

You coming to Austin for the race's this year ?

Ok so got the tag today so after work went for a little ride to the
local ice house for an after work beer then rode by flash Motorbike's
a vintage/cafe/scooter shop.

Bike ran fine other than the idle/off idle jetting at the track it didn't matter much
but if I'm gonna street ride it some I'll need to address that.
Also to run pump gas I need to plug in the laptop and program one of the
advance curve's with less total advance and a slower advance rate for the lower octane.
I have VP 110 octane in it now left over from the last track day.

WOW, she's not going to like the cheap stuff. Bet she turns some heads though. :woohoo:
Steve

Unfortunately not going to make it this year . Been spending too much Dont have the cash
Might get to the X games though . Have to catch up if I do .

Bike looks great .

Understand the money thing we will be moving at the end of the month so
that'll take my bike money for a while.

This will be the last year for the X-game's here should have been another five year's
on the contract but the X-game people want to hold it later in the summer so they changed game plan's.

So once again the battery's acting up and it's hit or miss on will it start when hot so went and got a 270 cca
Shorai battery and so far it spin's this thing over way better the the old one and is only 2.1 lbs vs the 11 lbs lead acid battery,

Nice, Got the same one in my modded turbo . Works great .A little pricy but your batt problems should be over .

I've always been a big fan of weight reduction (header, center stand, turn signals, drilled front disc, air box, alum 29mm sb, kicker, low on gas etc....... thought about lightened crank, alum rims, fiber glass fenders and tank etc too but too much cash)

In the real world all things being equal what do you think that 9lbs will do.... lower your et a 1/2 a tenth or closer to a tenth ??..... maybe a bike length ?? Thanks. ( have read that every 10lbs gets you approx a bike length but want to hear it from someone who see's it in real life. ......Love that pic of your bike at the bike shop.

What I understand is 10 lbs. is a tenth on a bike.

Another affect of taking the weight off the back half of the bike is it
move's the weight center forward putting more weight on the front tire.

And now the bad news look's like the the new owner of Little River has pissed off Steve Landers and there will
be NO more Motorcycle Mayhem race's. From what I'm hearing is a lot of Car and bike racer's are mad
over the same issue's I posted about and are simply not going back.

Why doesn't thy new owner just get rid of the guy in the tower & replace him with some one more competent?
Pete

It's not just the guy in the tower the new owner don't have a clue about running a drag strip.

Bike was gettin a little ruff around the edge's so ripped the back half off to clean and repaint it.

Dug out the spare eccentric's and cleaned them up. I like these better then the round hole one's.

Back on it's wheel's.