Posted by Beav on July 18, 2009, 5:00 pm
> It's something like watching a combination of acrobatics and ballet...
> worth seeing at least once if you appreciate extreme skill, balance,
> problem solving, suspense and terrain you wouldn't think any bike
> could negotiate.
>There is also four-wheeled trials for specially-built cars in England.
>It's like the rock crawling done in the western USA by Jeeps and 4WD
>trucks.
>I don't think they have any rocks in England, though. They were all
>used to build
>Stonehenge...
Only half of them.
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Posted by Vito on July 10, 2009, 11:49 am
I couldn't see the point in drag racing until I went to my first meet,
and then the sheer visceral power of some of the cars and bikes - I
mean it, you could feel your insides shaking - rather changed my mind.
I'm not a fan, by any means, but there are worse ways of spending a
day than at a drag strip.
Now, trials - there's something I've never 'got', but then again, I've
never witnessed a trials event.
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Then by all means go to one. The things they do are as impressive as an A
Fuel Dragster albiet in a different way.
Posted by Kevin on July 10, 2009, 12:25 pm
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>> > Beav wrote:
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>> >> I can't remember the last time I used a plug with a single
>> >> electrode. Mostly I use plugs with three or I go the whole hog and
>> >> use iridiums. Mind you, I don't tune drag racing engines, but I
>> >> doubt they'd index the electrode to overcome a fuelling problem.
>>
>> > I also doubt anyone who is knowledgeable about tuning would index a
>> > spark plug to overcome a fueling problem. That is not to say that
>> > there isn't a very small benefit to indexing plugs. Drag racing is
>> > all about adding up a whole lot of infinitesimally small things in
>> > order to have a slight but significant advantage over the
>> > opposition which results in a win.
>>
>> > My main point was simply that indexing plugs is something that
>> > people have done in the past and may as far as I know, still do in
>> > some drag racing classes, and not just something that Krusty made
>> > up.
>>
>> If you want I will post the Jegs catalog number for indexing spark
>> plug washers. It is as common as can be in drag racing. KB
>
> Drag racing? Is that were guys and gals dress in drag and race?
>
> Who gives a damn about morons that tear up motors in less than 15sec
> runs???? It baffels me that people find it facinating.
AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH my OX is gored. KB
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Posted by Schiffner on July 10, 2009, 11:40 pm
> AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH my OX is gored. KB
Worse, though I disparage drag racing, I DO respect and admire the
effort that goes in to building and tuning those cars. Even if it
seems rather pointless. I mean they must corner like shit!
;^)
Posted by Kevin on July 11, 2009, 12:01 am
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>> AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH my OX is gored. KB
>
> Worse, though I disparage drag racing, I DO respect and admire the
> effort that goes in to building and tuning those cars. Even if it
> seems rather pointless. I mean they must corner like shit!
like any purpose built machine they only do one thing well, and thats
peal your eye balls back, the nice part about a bike, you can have a
bunch of both. KB
>
> ;^)
>
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> worth seeing at least once if you appreciate extreme skill, balance,
> problem solving, suspense and terrain you wouldn't think any bike
> could negotiate.
>There is also four-wheeled trials for specially-built cars in England.
>It's like the rock crawling done in the western USA by Jeeps and 4WD
>trucks.
>I don't think they have any rocks in England, though. They were all
>used to build
>Stonehenge...