Meremere - Drag Wars

**Mr Merde** · 5th March 2007, 15:32

Originally Posted by BarBender

LOL
Same animals - different jungle.

A Northhampton lad then?

No, from the west of that about 2 hours.

Used to ride the bike to the track. Strip off what I could, deflate the tyre and take it up the track.

Watching the xmas tree count down built up the adrenilin. Trying to keep the front wheel on the ground and the bike going in a straight line.

Biggest buzz I had in a long time. Hooked after the first run.

Just wanted to go faster and faster. Drooled over the turbo'd and nitro'd bikes. Dreamt of building a flat out drag bike.

**BarBender** · 5th March 2007, 15:36

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

No, from the west of that about 2 hours.

Used to ride the bike to the track. Strip off what I could, deflate the tyre and take it up the track.

Watching the xmas tree count down built up the adrenilin. Trying to keep the front wheel on the ground and the bike going in a straight line.

Biggest buzz I had in a long time. Hooked after the first run.

Just wanted to go faster and faster. Drooled over the turbo'd and nitro'd bikes. Dreamt of building a flat out drag bike.

You'll be amongst friends then.

**Loopy** · 5th March 2007, 18:45

[QUOTE=BarBender;962594]

Originally Posted by Loopy

Goes to show that I dont read who posts - I thought Loopy was a guy!!!

I remember saying to my mate at the time - "Look at that - she's got kahunas to even get it on the start line!!!

It didnt even occur to me looking at your car that you were Loopy

Didnt you read my profile? I am a F-E-M-A-L-E!

I am woman,

and I am known to all my customers and everybody else as LOOPY

You would have known that had ya come a wondering and found me, next time you see the ute on the strip you'll know its me.And thank you for recognising my big kahunas, you're not the first but they do come in handy sometimes.

Oh yeah, and next time you're speaking with Callum tell him that I said itsa pity we didnt get a chance to talk.

**avgas** · 21st March 2007, 12:09

Will try an make it down on fri after graduation. Doubt i will be able to race - as neither my bike or me is fit enough right now.
Anyone else going?

**The Stranger:Me** · 23rd March 2007, 16:26

Originally Posted by avgas

Will try an make it down on fri after graduation. Doubt i will be able to race - as neither my bike or me is fit enough right now.
Anyone else going?

Ok people whos coming - to the drags? Best get your skates on.

**Mr Merde** · 23rd March 2007, 16:39

Cant make it tonight. Bike isnt legal, rego expired.

Helmet wouldnt pass scrutiny as it has this slight GOUGE down the right hand side.

**avgas** · 25th March 2007, 02:21

graduation, turned into drinks, turned into more drinks........

**The Stranger:Me** · 25th March 2007, 10:03

Originally Posted by avgas

graduation, turned into drinks, turned into more drinks........

Was a good night. Best run of the night was a Hayabusa. 8.54 if my memory is correct. Fark it was fast.
Was street legal, had a lengthened swing arm, real low suspension (looked like rods holding the suspension down) the tripple clamps and bars were custom, apparently to give the same wheel base but effectively move the mass forward. Rumours about engine size varied from 1500 - 1650 cc. I recon the guy must have had decent size kahunas too.

Gareth took the GSXR down. Pulled a crowd pleasing wheelie in second and third whilst wasting a boy racer.

My boy knocked 1.3 seconds off his best from last time.

They had a smokey comp at the end whilst we were repairing a puncture on the X11. We could hardly see and we were a couple of hundred meters away.

Highly recommended for a friday night's entertainment now and then.

**avgas** · 25th March 2007, 12:14

Yeh its a pity it was the last of the season. Gave a spare helmet to a mate that was suppose to race his vr4 - but blowoff valve....well blew off. So he didnt race in the end.
I picked up a bit of a bug from work on thur, drank (alot) fri, was up to 4 this morn playin PS3 at a mates (gotta love projectors) and now im paying for it.
The flu is now an understatement - feels like someone shoved a pack of marshmellows up my nostrils.
Why do i keep doing this to myself

**R6_kid:Me** · 25th March 2007, 15:01

would just like to say cheers to Noel again for letting me borrow the weapon. I think if i spent more time on the bike i would easily be running mid-low 10s runs, was my first time out riding a 'full power' litre bike so i was still coming to grips with the power after my 3rd practice run.

My actual 'race' was crap, i didn't completely understand the setup of DYO so dialled in 10.5s, in my race run i was focusing on not wheel spinning or wheelie-ing off the line, so my launch was a bit slow, put it almost straight into second and opened it up. Managed a rather poor 11.8s run, my best was 11.2 in qualifying runs.

Later on in the night i went in for grudge racing, got lined up against a 14.4s S15 Silvia so knew i didnt have to try to beat him, i was going to anyway. Decided to have some fun with it, so again did a slow launch, at about the stage he changed gears i opened up first and lifted the front wheel, hooked second and kept it up, then hooked third and had a bit of trouble balancing the power so backed off to put the front down, opened it up and lent forward to go for the line. Needless to say i completely smoked the Silvia, the pass was a 11.5s for me which with a 200m wheelie isnt a bad effort!

Would be awesome to see more bikes down there when they have their next meeting. Girls can probably race in the Womens class against shit-ass cars if you don't think you can race conisistently (DYO) or just really fast (Bikes). Either way its a blast and loads of fun.

**Mr Merde** · 25th March 2007, 17:01

So when does the season start?

Gives me a little more time to open up the breathing on the GS1200.

Got some new cams, 38mm Mik's on order and a new exhaust system on its way. Timing advance on way from UK. Looking at building some lighter plastics and replacing suspension components. Where can I get a fiberglass fuel cell from?? Nedd to drop the weight up top and lower centre of gravity.

Arranged to have the heads flowed when I have all the kit together. Will spend a weekend putiing all of this together.

Oh goody found a big bore kit. Mmmmm expensive but 1400cc mmmmm.

Should boost the weight down to about 190kg and the power up to about 130 hp at rear wheel.

Would help if I dropped 10 kg also.

Next season expect to see me at as many races as possible.

Forgot to mention, mate of mine has built me a water injection system that we can run a little meths mixed in with the H2O, Should be good for a little extra oomph and keep the engine cooler.

Can I run stock?

Merde.

**avgas** · 27th March 2007, 12:30

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

So when does the season start?

Gives me a little more time to open up the breathing on the GS1200.

Got some new cams, 38mm Mik's on order and a new exhaust system on its way. Timing advance on way from UK. Looking at building some lighter plastics and replacing suspension components. Where can I get a fiberglass fuel cell from?? Nedd to drop the weight up top and lower centre of gravity.

Arranged to have the heads flowed when I have all the kit together. Will spend a weekend putiing all of this together.

Oh goody found a big bore kit. Mmmmm expensive but 1400cc mmmmm.

Should boost the weight down to about 190kg and the power up to about 130 hp at rear wheel.

Would help if I dropped 10 kg also.

Next season expect to see me at as many races as possible.

Forgot to mention, mate of mine has built me a water injection system that we can run a little meths mixed in with the H2O, Should be good for a little extra oomph and keep the engine cooler.

Can I run stock?

Merde.

Holy crap remind me not to race you - i rode a gs with a yoshi and it pulled like the fonz. All that work and you have yourself a drag weapon. How about some NOS?

**Mr Merde** · 27th March 2007, 13:50

Originally Posted by avgas

Holy crap remind me not to race you - i rode a gs with a yoshi and it pulled like the fonz. All that work and you have yourself a drag weapon. How about some NOS?

Big bore kit can wait. girlfriend wants a house.

The rest over the next few months.

NOS would be nice but expensive??????

Would probably scare me senseless. I still want my arms in their sockets

**avgas** · 27th March 2007, 22:00

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

NOS would be nice but expensive??????

Yeh i know about the house thing - have to do some of that saving stuff myself.
It sucks saving when your a guy, girl is easy, it all "Ok i will save $100 this week here, then buy these shoes on the credit card".....for a guy its "Ok $100 into savings.....hmmmm seems there is now enough in savings for a new bike....hmmmm"

NOS wasnt that expensive - 1-2K? cant remeber but it was ok. Im too slow to ride with it though, i barely use 80% of my throttle as it is.

**ALLY G** · 30th July 2007, 18:05

Originally Posted by Mr Merde

Big bore kit can wait. girlfriend wants a house.
The rest over the next few months.
NOS would be nice but expensive??????
Would probably scare me senseless. I still want my arms in their sockets

If I had the cash I would have:-
Big Bore to 1560cc
Turbo to 400+rw Hp
Noz
Water injection
Multi stage lockup clutch
Extended swingarm
Compressed forks
2 Stage ignition limiter
Air shifter
and a warrant/rego

MOOOOORE POOOOOOOWER !!!!!!!!
Anyone got a spare 15k they can give me

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