How fast will jrandom go at Meremere?

[Kornholio]

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

Drink more wine then bro

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?

Boohoo you cant always have it squeaky clean

Harden up au and adapt to the conditions

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.

Whatever this guy said.... Serious you follow this and you cant go wrong

[jrandom]

Boohoo you cant always have it squeaky clean

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Y'see, to be perfectly honest, it was just that the day before was the first time I'd washed the bike since, um...

... since I got it last year.

[Swoop]

Get it out.... with Optrex!

A S.M. fan???

[Pussy]

A S.M. fan???

My oath! One of his excellent quotes! Loved his work

[Swoop]

My oath! One of his excellent quotes! Loved his work

Woohoo!!!

A Gofongo, if you please,
is a fish with singing knees...

[Gubb]

...So, can jrandom out-drag the litre bikes?

[jrandom]

...So, can jrandom out-drag the litre bikes?

I certainly wasn't out-dragging Mike Maunder on his GSX-R1000 K7. He ran 10.2s!

However, you might recall that my original claim was that the GSX1400 was not slower than litre bikes up to 100kph. In other words, all other things being equal, I wouldn't expect a stock standard thou (ie, not one running a special rear tyre or with drag-specific gearing or suspension modifications) to pull away from me on the dragstrip until it went over 100kph.

Unfortunately, I don't really think that an un-prepped Meremere is a particularly good place to test the 'all other things being equal' part of that. I'm prepared to leave the question unsettled until I can line up alongside some thous on a properly sticky strip.



Edit: Obviously a < 200kg and > 150hp thou is always going to be just downright faster than my 100-ish hp, 230kg GSX1400. However, the 1400's a lot easier to launch off the torque and keep the front down on. It'd never win any sort of race against a really good pilot on the thou, but I fancy its chances off the line against the average squid on the average day, and I plan on showing sooner or later that I'm not talking entirely out my arse...

[speedpro]

I always thought the newer lighter more powerful bikes would be a real handful off the line. The big easy to use 1400 should launch real good if you can get traction.

[Kornholio]

I always thought the newer lighter more powerful bikes would be a real handful off the line. The big easy to use 1400 should launch real good if you can get traction.

They are.... and they should

[Fat Rat]

remember the guy on the busa could have sat on the line for .5 of a second, reaction times come into play.

you can sit on the start line for 10 seconds if you want to, your et will still be the same. The et time does not start till you break the start beam.....your reaction time only comes into play when racing against someone, because if you sit there for 10 seconds of course you will lose the race!!

Try it next time your at the track on a muck around race.

[Fat Rat]

Someone told me they only clean up the surface for major events. And yeah, the track was extremely slippery, but got better. I saw the GSXR1000 and a few other cars wheelspinning for near two thirds of the track distance.

Unfortunately the track is bloody slippery for the winter meets. It will not be prepped for any of these meets because first off you need good temperature in the track(ie double digits at the least) to spray the VHT or else it just sits on the surface (and this would be like ice) and the other reason is as soon as it rains you have just lost everything you sprayed....and considering it costs around 2k to spray to half track i'm sure you can see why its not prepped.

Just adjust your riding to suit the conditions....hell mike can still manage 10.3's and johnny p.o. managed a personal best of 11.88 at the last meeting on his good old 98 gsxr600!!

[Crazy Steve]

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!

I wouldn't both doin Burn outs..

Find a clean bit of track and keep that line..

The fastest guy on a bike in Nz (Racing quarters) dosnt burn his tyre out...And ive seen him ride his 750 there stock and run high 9's..

Crazy Steve

[jrandom]

Just adjust your riding to suit the conditions....hell mike can still manage 10.3's and johnny p.o. managed a personal best of 11.88 at the last meeting on his good old 98 gsxr600!!

I really reckon that if I head along to the next meet with a fuckable rear tyre I'll be right. A decently low pressure in it and some proper burnies to get it sticky and all will be well.

I ain't havin' no cunt say that the GSX1400's not an 11 second bike.

[jrandom]

The fastest guy on a bike in Nz (Racing quarters) dosnt burn his tyre out...And ive seen him ride his 750 there stock and run high 9's..

The right tyre pressure at the back might be enough to make the difference, then.

[Crazy Steve]

Winter Drags last year.GSXR1000K3..Doin 10.3's

Then last Summer 10.1's on a GSXR1000K7..

Year in year out....Practice practice...

Try Taupo dragway.....Its heaps better you get to ride around the rest of the track to warm your tyres up...And do wheelstands..

Crazy Steve..