Might be time to give it up

That first 60 feet killed you. Ha

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Third gear start?

GuyB wrote:

Third gear start?

Thats what I was thinking, or you got some wacking gearing going on with sprockets?

Half second reaction time doesn't cut it. 1st gear on these sport bikes is very tall. With stock gearing my bike does just under 110mph in 1st. I have mine geared down a little for road racing and if I was serious about drag racing would probably gear it down some more. It does have a launch control but it's a pain in the ass to activate and I don't like it anyway (probably just too stupid to figure out how to use it properly). I probably also outweigh him by a good 100 pounds. My run was a 10.6 at 139. His was a 10.8 at 130. I would have beat him fairly easily if my RT was better. Last time I raced there the light tree was different and I had red lighted the race before so I didn't want to do that again and I figured I could be very conservative off the line since I had such a power advantage. He really surprised me. My 1290 Super Duke is geared WAY lower and I am much better off the line on it. That bike is in the shop right now though. I think I have a blown head gasket on it.

Yeah, you were running him down at the end. Another eighth of a mile and you'd have had him covered...but it would have made shut-down way more interesting.

I just had a really bad launch. I haven't ridden that ZX10 but a couple of times since I got my KTM and it's a whole different machine. I should have had the RPMs up a lot higher on launch and I could have been more aggressive on the clutch, and of course didn't have to sit at the line for a half a second before moving. Oh well, road courses with corners are much more fun.

My buddy was cracking me up on his Grom. He's putting out over 22hp with plans for more in the near future. I think it's only around 8 hp stock. This wasn't his best run and he was bouncing off the limiter a lot but still was a little over 16 seconds. I think his best was right at 16@77mph. He can easily get that in the mid 80s after flashing the ECU and raising his limiter.

This is just from my helmet cam lined up 2 bikes behind. He even did a burnout which cracked me up.