drag racing!!
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drag racing!!
A couple boys i ride with have 450s, one has a 450r and it has a high compression piston, cams, port and polished head, full exhaust, air box and some little stuff and the yfz has about the same thing but the head work, and they wanna drag race me, i have a 2mm stroker crank, 450 kit, head work, reangled injectors, modded air box and full hmf exhaust, everyone seems to think that they will smoke me, but me, will i have a chance???
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So many people think drag racing is all machine and very little rider. Stop in at a NHRA meet one time and say that. the holeshot is a lot more than acceleration because if you brake to early for the corner, you lose. But being in front to the corneris a big plus. thats why most racers practice the launch so much, but you have to feel whats going on with the rear tires long after the inital launch. Before my Cannondale days I rode a Scrambler and my son raced a Banshee. He won a lot of races at first but almost always had to work his way up from the back (made watching fun) I made him practice holeshots aginst the Scrambler in 4x4 on grass. I would kill him at first but it made him realise full throtle is not always fastest. I think he took like the next 9 holeshots.
Also In a race situation the adrenalin can realy mess up you sence(sp) so you need to overcome that also
And if the rest of the people there are aginst you wining they can use the adrenalin thing aginst you. At the strip the oldtimers use to sike up the kids (especialy the smartazz ones) and they would either come out to hard and go up in smoke or miss a shift. It was fun except if you were the kid.
Also In a race situation the adrenalin can realy mess up you sence(sp) so you need to overcome that also
And if the rest of the people there are aginst you wining they can use the adrenalin thing aginst you. At the strip the oldtimers use to sike up the kids (especialy the smartazz ones) and they would either come out to hard and go up in smoke or miss a shift. It was fun except if you were the kid.
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