NE1 1/4 Mile Drag Race their Super Duke?

Took my Super Duke to a local NHRA drag strip for Wednesday "Fun Night" just to see what kind of times it would run. The bike is basically stock except for a one-off set of prototype Two Brothers cans with an Akrop ti header. It ran 11:404 @ 121.69 MPH. The rear tyre NEVER hooked up (too new and too rounded, need a worn out flat tread area tyre that we all throw away ) and would spin even with the front wheel off the ground. Hit the rev limiter a couple of runs that killed a chance at a little better time but "that's racing". I hadn't been to an actual drag strip in many, many years until last Wednesday when I took my '69 440 Plymouth GTX (4-speed) to the same track. They had over 50 bikes there last week and I thought the bikes looked like they were having way more fun racing and shooting the $#!T between runs than the cars so I decided I'd take the Super Duke last night. It was a lot more fun and ended up hanging out between runs with just about everyone of the 40+ bike guys there and ran the guy that won eliminations last week on a 2000 Aprilia RSV Mille running 10:70's several times. He was really interested in the Super Duke and little did he know that the same engineer Claus Holweg that designed his engine at Rotax also did the LC8 for KTM Could go on and on about last night but I have some tweaking I need to do to get the Super Duke into the 10's, stock with nothing more than a pipe and cans.

Anyone else drag raced their Super Duke......what kind of times?

do a search there was a thread late last year, yep getting in the 10s is not that hard...... not had a chance to run mine this year as I had planed what with work and the good old UK weather

Try this thread out mate...

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=17842&hilit=Post+mile+times

I would be all about drag racing if it was down AND back to the line, stopped.

How could you not keep it hooked up? Mine never breaks traction, even leaned over in corners. Was it raining?

What pressure were you running? There seems to be a widespread and dangerous misconception that the pressure posted on the sidewall and manual is what the tyres should be set at. Those pressures are for maximum load to prevent premature wear and overheating. Under max load at max pressure results in a very small contact patch, less heat generation, and consequently less traction and grip. Less grip means more spinning which means faster wear. Street tyres are much happier in the 32/32 range on ~400lb bikes.

I guess he was lining up in the centre of the lane where the cars drop oil and coolant, slippery as fook.......

you gotta get over to one side or the other on a clean bit of track and stay out of the centre until you hit 3rd gear,

18-20 psi in an old squared off sticky rear tyre will help to along will 50psi in the front