Go Fast, Legally!!

Claviger said:
Got 3 1/4 mile runs in.

1.9xx 60 foots on all of them, any more than half throttle in 1st was nothing but spin, clearly track wasn't well prepped.

In order they were
11.01 @ 133
10.889 @ 134.2
10.895 @ 134.25

Had fun but the track was ****, and the bikes not making what it should be, clearly.
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YEP your speed is down our Rocket has run 158 mph so you will make more HP when you retune and get some more practice
 
And you really need a friend. We used to say in the sand box, if you get in a gun fight, it's best to have a gun. Even better, is to have friends with guns.

With your bike, you need a sag wagon, on which would be a plug kit and air pump. Just sayin'

This too shall pass.
 
Joesmoe said:
And you really need a friend. We used to say in the sand box, if you get in a gun fight, it's best to have a gun. Even better, is to have friends with guns.

With your bike, you need a sag wagon, on which would be a plug kit and air pump. Just sayin'

This too shall pass.
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It might pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass.
 
Yep. Highlight of my day was the GTR side by side 1/3 mile, absolutely annihilating a tuned Hellcat 1/3 mile and doing a timed quarter vs the zx6, who got absolutely demolished
:)

Starting at 40 in the roll races is like cheating, I'm right at peak power in 1st lol. What's cool is it you listen the GTR and I are geared almost identically.
 
Just finished reviewing my data logs, only two. What I learned:

Muscle memory is a *****, my hand tends to stop right at the 70% mark from being so accustomed to that being "full throttle" since I've ridden it stopping there for a while now, so all my 2nd gear work wasn't full throttle. Must work on that!!

Mental habits are hard to break, being accustomed to shift at the sound of 7k, I shifted quite a few times at 7 instead of 8. Certainly not helping matters :/

Traction is a *****, the first 10 feet or so and my clutch is fully released, from that point when I roll the throttle open fast, until the 1.9x elapsed time I had wheel spin, so my 60' times are 1.9s while spinning :/ This led to short shifting 1-2 at only 5k :( Not totally sure how, but I think I can improve this. On the street I have logs of multiple 3.7 0-60s, on the track they were more like 4.5 seconds, I don't get how the track was worse at grip than the street is, I was leaving at only 2000 RPM...

So next time at the track, I'm going to ignore my 60's, and ENSURE I hit 100% in 2-4 to develop the habit, then ensure I'm shifting where I should be. Once that's down I'll start working 60's and see if suspension/tire pressure help. Left suspension at street setting and tires at daily pressures today, so, 40 rear/39 front, thinking the 40 psi was the cause of all the spin.

All in all, a good learning experience and a lot of fun, racing bikes is 10000000x the fun of racing cars, which gets old to me about 3/4 down the track the 2nd pass, I could have lapped all day on the Rocket.
 
Wonder how low one could drop rear tire pressure without needing tire locks?
 
Exedra Max... on order :p


Also, I've been reading my slips and analyzing them. The bike IS making more than the 190 it dynod at, I'm gaining an insane amount of speed on the back half of the course vs the front half, so my first 1/8th mile is what's killing the traps. The numbers don't add up for that trap/et and short times.

Slip 1 (first drag ever on a bike):

60':1.994
330:5.015
1/8th et:7.413
1/8th mph:104.42
1000:9.403
1/4 et:11.089
1/4 mph:133.92

(passes 2 and 3 had crazy wheel spin in 1st)

60':1.902
330:4.818
1/8th et:7.209
1/8th mph:103.73
1000:9.213
1/4 et:10.889
1/4 mph:134.2

60':1.983
330:5.002
1/8th et:7.298
1/8th mph:108.09
1000:9.243
1/4 et:10.895
1/4 mph:134.24
 
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