Racing your/a motorcycle at a drag strip is only as serious as the rider makes it. On a normal "run wut tcha brung" night you will see anything from a turbo busa that got towed by an enclosed trailer while hooked up to a lap top to a person who rode their harley in jeans. Bikes will run times from mid 13's all the way down to the maybe 7's if that turbo busa guy got his stuff tuned.
The Naked Speed team tows the bike as it is a race only bike and brings along a tool box as well. The tool box is equiped with metric sockets and wrenches, screw drivers, various plyers if thats how you spell it, and your basic metric bike tools. Oh yea, zip ties, lots of zip ties. In reality since its a metric-cycle we don't need tools because there is nothing to work on. We should bring a deck of cards or a tv to occupy us between races.
There is a fair amount of people who ride their bikes to the track, run faster times than we do, and ride home or to the bar or whatever. On that same note, some people tow their street legal bike.
For next time, even though I posted like 800 things today... more about the Naked Speed team bike, the beginning of the history of bikes, and more updates
For the future... I am beginning to document me painting my daily rider and will make a tutorial out of it. This will show the beginner how to do a quality rattle can job. There will be details as to how to use body putty, sanding blocks, other stuff, and more stuff.
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