Drag Race a Rig, are you nucking futz?

Wished you lived closer. I'd love you give it a go against my V Strom.

Mine pushes pretty good to the ride when I really gas it. Be tough staying in my own lane.

SOunds like fun

greg

I do believe that if I ever decided to put a chair on my Rocket3, I'd smoke you both.....

Originally written by SCT100 on 7/28/2006 7:44 PM

I do believe that if I ever decided to put a chair on my Rocket3, I'd smoke you both.....

Wouldn't argue that. The Rocket would seem to make a super tug, no?

The three bikes I'd love to hack are a Rocket 3, a V-Rod and a Rune! I think any one of these would be a great tug.

Don't know about the Rocket or Harley, but one day I will hack a Rune. Leaning toward a Hannigan like Bill's, but I need to go get a bunch of Lottery tickets first. Either that or let about 4 other people own it first.

Actually, the V-Rods are getting cheaper all the time. I see I can get a new Street Rod for $13k. Can't touch a used Rocket or Honda for that.

A victory is entirely theoretical of course, until a chair is attached to the Rocket 3 🙂

Incidently, I looked up my solo drag strip tickets from a while back.. I was turning 100.46 mph/161.7 km/h passes on the 1/8th, so 90 mph/145 km/h dragging an extra 500 lbs or so isn't too shabby at all.

Whodathunk, competitive bench-racing/sh*t talking on a sidecar site.. 🙂

Greg & Mike:Interestingly, the owners manual as well as the shop manual for the R3 specifically states that the addition of a sidecar or a trailer hitch will negate the warranty and with a 2 year unlimited mileage warranty if I did anything with the R3 it would be at least 2 years out.You are right on price. I paid a little over 18K for my '06 R3 Classic. It's a bagger with balls. It's going in for the 500 mile check on Tuesday. Quite honestly, I'm a little aprehensive of the bike. It sounds like my riding lawnmower when it idles but when it gets to 2500 rpm, it goes beserk. I met a good friend for lunch last Sunday. He has a Duck 1000 GT. After lunch we went for a ride and on a nice quiet straightaway I had a little "go" from a roll. The Duck never had a chance and the R3 was trying to accelerate right out from under me. The 2nd to third shift produced a tire squeal and 6k in third is 115...I ran out of straightaway. It has Brembo discs, 2 floaters with 4 piston calipers up front and a single floater out back. It whoas as good as it goes. The factory speed limiter is set at 143 but Triumph has a full power tune download that will let the bike run to 6500 in fifth at around 170 (not for me). Actually, 143 is too much. Honestly, 115 is too much. Life is too short.I much prefer the more sedate ride of my T100 and the sidecar. It will run 85 or so and that's fast enough to keep up with Michigan drivers on the E-way.HD is going to have to do something with their lineup like incorporating the V-Rod motor in their other bikes. You can only do so much with an ancient motor. Buyers today want to buy a bike, ride it and not tinker with it. Actually, a vast majority of bike buyers today shouldn't tinker. New bikes are getting way tooo complicated for the backyard tinkerer. My R3 for example. With digital sequential fuel injection, the only way to tune the bike is with a laptop, not a screwdriver.

Bill:There is no replacement for displacement.

This, actually is a good site to bench race on. Get's this old farts blood moving again. Just like the R3.

Actually, Harley does have another power plant in the works to replace the twin cammer.
But not everyone prefers a crotch rocket, some of us old farts prefer the potato, potato and always will.
Wanta race? Hit the track or strip. Everybody's going the same direction on the track, with the same goal. Not so on the streets.
Keep it off the streets.

Lonnie

Originally written by Hack'n on 7/29/2006 12:53 AM<BR><BR>Actually, Harley does have another power plant in the works to replace the twin cammer.
But not everyone prefers a crotch rocket, some of us old farts prefer the potato, potato and always will.
Wanta race? Hit the track or strip. Everybody's going the same direction on the track, with the same goal. Not so on the streets.
Keep it off the streets.

Lonnie

Easy now.. 🙂

Just keep in mind, this particular video is NOT a 'street racing' video. It is in fact a sanctioned drag run. You got your 'ticket' from a Ontario Provincial Police constable - who was running the radar trap, fortunately the ticket is non-legally binding 🙂

As Gregbenner indicates, they push pretty hard to the right on launch (you can see that in the video) so it's strictly a timed run, not done with another bike/rig/car whatever in the other lane due to the potential hazard of running off course into the other lane.

Soooo... Bill, did your beer really fall out of the cup holder??

Bill,
Having been a legal Drag racer since 1950 when NHRA started I recognized the venue of your pix. I wasn't referring to sanctioned organized racing.
I was referring to street racing in general which was being touched upon by others in the thread.
Motorcycling in general in the US has a bad enough reputation with the burnouts, loud pipes and agressive riding in the past and now we've added the wheelies, stoppies, rat racing and other antics of the knee dragging wannabees on RR's.
In my area this year there has been a spate or spike if you will of young squids sacrificing themselves against other motorists, and trees and guardrails in single vehicle events caused by Extreme Riding with little talent on public roads.
The new "Reality" TV shows showing extreme riding and NOPI events and even the manufacturers ads are doing their share to promote these activities despite the disclaimers. "Don't do this at home, these are trained professionals on a closed circuit". That does little to dissuade the "Puppies".
But that's one more reason why there are a lot less old dogs than there are puppies.

Lonnie

I've had more than a few potato-potato bikes in my 40 odd years of motorcycling too. Somewhere along the way, my preference went to something more than the spud bike. I believe it went like this: Some years back my wife and I rode to Hot Springs Arkansas for a HOG rally. On the way down, a cager did his best to eliminate my wife and I and my only recourse was to put the FLT in the median. It didn't have the grunt to avoid his big Chevy pickup truck. Then and there I decided that the HD was going and in its place would be a bike that would, indeed have enough power to avoid scenario's like I just encountered. Fast forward to the R3, which, by the way is the first bike in over 13 years that my wife will ride on and that includes my other Triumph with the Spyder attached. I don't consider the R3 to be a crotch rocket. Rather, it's a bagger/long distance touring bike that just happens to have a lot of power on tap, power that is in control of the rider. I certainly don't advocate riding in an unsafe manner, quite the contrary but I don't think that you can state unequivocally that you've never cranked your potato-potato bike past the legal speed limit or seen just how much acceleration it possesses. To state that would be a myth most likely. Something I notice about potato-potato bikers is that the first thing most of them do is take the stock exhaust system off and replace it with a loud, obnoxious exhaust system. Is that because they need more potatoes?? If so, I believe they need to get a bike with more potatoes built in.

Originally written by SCT100 on 7/29/2006 2:25 PM

Then and there I decided that the HD was going and in its place would be a bike that would, indeed have enough power to avoid scenario's like I just encountered.

Getting a bike with more power just to "avoid scenario's" has got to be the worst idea I've heard in a long time. More power is NOT the key to survival - riding within your limits and those of your bike, along with taking regular refresher riding courses, is what increases the odds in your favour. If you find yourself avoiding more potential situations with a twist of the throttle, then you need to seriously re-evaluate your riding skills (no matter how many years you have in the saddle) because otherwise you wouldn't BE in those potential situations in the first place.