View Poll Results: dan x meremere = ?

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  • sub 10 seconds

    2 2.20%
  • 10 to 10.5 seconds

    2 2.20%
  • 10.5 to 11 seconds

    10 10.99%
  • 11 - 11.5 seconds

    12 13.19%
  • 11.5 to 12 seconds

    17 18.68%
  • 12 to 12.5 seconds

    13 14.29%
  • 12.5 to 13 seconds

    7 7.69%
  • 13 to 13.5 seconds

    1 1.10%
  • 13.5 to 14 seconds

    1 1.10%
  • 14 to 14.5 seconds

    1 1.10%
  • 15 + seconds

    5 5.49%
  • he won't turn up / won't run / will bin it

    20 21.98%
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Thread: How fast will jrandom go at Meremere?

  1. #106
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    I think this photograph mostly goes to show that GSX1400s look better with bar-end mirrors and no screen.

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    great thread,thanx.
    when is the next time that this racing happens?
    any ideas on what sorta time my duc should do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by RiderInBlack View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by 96 600ss View Post
    when is the next time that this racing happens?
    any ideas on what sorta time my duc should do?
    27 July.

    13.5 ish?
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    cool ta'
    what are the rules,got warrant,rego ummm.safety gear,etc?
    cost to do the track?
    if fine i'll be there

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    Quote Originally Posted by 96 600ss View Post
    what are the rules,got warrant,rego ummm.safety gear,etc?
    You'll need a driver's licence, current WOF and rego, legal tread on your tyres, a proper riding jacket, helmet and gloves.

    Quote Originally Posted by 96 600ss View Post
    cost to do the track?
    $15 to get in, $25 to race. So, $40. Bring cash for your entry and to buy food, there's no EFTPOS on site (the Meremere dragstrip is basically a cow paddock at the end of a dirt track).

    Don't bother washing your bike before you go, it'll get filthy as soon as you turn off the motorway. In fact, the place is such a shithole you end up spending most of your time in between runs trying to keep mud and dust off your rear tyre.

    Be nice if the Auckland area had proper drag racing facilities, wouldn't it?

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    it is still better than hawkes bay,they took our old strip and turned it into vineyards,saaad.
    ah rego then,only been out since early 05,on hold tho

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    Some funny advice on getting good times. First you gotta warm that rear tyre. Run the lowest pressure you can get away with taking into account handling and turning the tyre on the rim. Burnout in 2nd, stationary initially but move the rear sit to side to avoid scorching the track, then let the front brake off and let it roll about 100m keeping it spinning as fast as possible(redline!). The tyre should be nice and warm and have a good texture for traction. Go back to the start and roll forward to stage. Select whichever gear you are using for the launch and then paddle very slowly forward till you are "just" staged. Left foot down, it's already in gear, and right foot on the back brake to stop the bike moving. This will allow you to move about 50-100mm before you break out. Get yourself in position on the bike - back if it's slippery and forward if sticky, hold the revs at the launch RPM, don't blip it, hold it. Depending on the tree they use and what your reactions are you can feed it gas and clutch way before you see the green and even be moving before the green because of the shallow stage. Hold the revs higher than you need at the start of the run and use the clutch to control power to the ground.
    Thunderpark always had good traction and I had to stretch as far as possible over the front and Meremere I had to sit back but balance it if it hooked up by getting forward. 11.3, occassionally 11.2, on a stock GSX1100 and an old '73 Z1. Speeds around 120mph.
    The other thing is if you are running DYO you can alter your dial-in through the day. Sometimes I'd change mine every run, especially if it was wet and dry or even if the wind changed.

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    Do you really need a rego when its not a public road??
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    Quote Originally Posted by arj127 View Post
    Do you really need a rego when its not a public road??
    I have run the race bike there with no issues about rego.

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    Quote Originally Posted by speedpro View Post
    lowest pressure... Burnout...


    Sounds brutal.

    It's pretty obvious that you can't head to the dragstrip and expect to do decent times unless you're prepared to fuck rear tyres.

    The scrutineering is really pretty basic. They checked my rego and WOF, but probably only because they were there to check.

    I was just waiting for some clueless car dude to ask where the radiator catch bottle was so that I could tell him in reply that he should really be over asking the guy with the rotary whether he needed new piston rings...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post


    Sounds brutal.

    It's pretty obvious that you can't head to the dragstrip and expect to do decent times unless you're prepared to fuck rear tyres.
    I dunno I managed to get 12.4 on the 400 without doing a single burnout all day.

    When I was there, not on Sunday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    It's pretty obvious that you can't head to the dragstrip and expect to do decent times unless you're prepared to fuck rear tyres.

    Go to your local bike shop and score (as in freebie/nada/zilch) a decent 2nd hand tyre,preferably from someone that has chewed out the sides.

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    Quote Originally Posted by boostin View Post
    I dunno I managed to get 12.4 on the 400 without doing a single burnout all day.
    I bet.

    S'all in the traction.

    I swear, based on how things went on Sunday, I could have gone out onto the highway that day, measured off a quarter mile and run a sub 12 right there and then.

    I must have wasted a solid second in the first 100m of every one of my runs fishtailing around and mucking about with the throttle and clutch trying to stay pointed in the right direction. It was so fucking frustrating. I know how Betty feels jumping off the line when she hooks up, and I got none of that happening at the strip.

    Look at the bike in that photo I posted of me a few metres in front of the start line.

    Fun but frustrating.

    I hear what DMNTD says about the tyre and I'm gonna do that for the next round. Sub 12 or bust!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom View Post
    Be nice if the Auckland area had proper drag racing facilities, wouldn't it?
    Ti Rakau Drive?

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