Drag racing?

 I'd like to add "Drag racing" to the list of: "things I've done".

Local track has mid-night drags on Fridays, mostly for the "tuner" scene I
imagine.

So any advice for a near 50 year old on a 2001 bone stock F4i?  I haven't
smoke a rear tire since the 70's on a CB450 (I guess I was a squid back in
those days).

Maybe I should buy a drag racing vid game for the playstation and work on
reaction time?

Bryan

 Bryan wrote:

Just do it! Don't let the playstation take up your precious time,
practice your reaction time at the traffic lights (at night when it's
quiet).

 

I said I was a squid at one time, I am not about to become one again.  Hence
the desire for a controlled / legal environment.

You have kids, you wouldn't give them the same advice, would you?

Bryan

 Bryan wrote:

Practicing reaction time is not being dangerous. it's just a matter of
watching the green light for the other traffic while you are sitting at
a red. When their light goes from green to amber, get ready, when your
light goes green , go! The reason i said to do it at night when it's
quiet is that you can see the traffic lights easier, and there is less
chance of getting 'cleaned up' by someone running the red.




Yes, if they were 50!   :)

 Brian wrote:

Which will totally screw you up when you get onto the track. On a
4-tenths sportsman tree you always launch during the last yellow. If
you wait until green, you lose.

This is one of my timeslips from last season, and it illustrates how
poor reaction time can lose the race for you. The guy I was racing  had
250cc's more displacement than me and ran a faster pass than I did, but
lost because he sat at the line for .13 seconds (an eternity in drag
racing). Pardon my 60-foot, by the way, but the bike has stock
wheelbase:

http://www.timkreitz.com/photosection/badassreaction.jpg

Cheers,

Tim Kreitz
2003 ZX7R
2000 ZX6R
http://www.timkreitz.com