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my street/track cbr1000rr (lemmy.villa-straylight.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Thesecondhorseman@lemmy.villa-straylight.social to c/motorcycles@lemmy.world

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This is my dual duty street/track cbr1000rr. While I far prefer road racing, drag racing offers some cheap practice.

Currently running it stock wheelbase with a strap, pushing Into the 10s @140 mph. While it is running full bazzaz engine management, intake, full yoshi exhaust etc. I will probably move to an mr12 tune here soon and possibly build a long swing arm setup I can swap to as drag racing is quite fun.

Honda managed to make a bike that both scoots in the straights and turns like my other 600s. A fantastic machine!

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[–] behohippy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would it make sense to have a dedicated drag bike if you're going for low numbers?

[–] Thesecondhorseman@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It would 100% make sense

If I wanted to get into the singles I'd at least need a swing arm but I don't want to comprise on the handleing for this specific bike since I make it fill many roles.

However, I've been debating doing a supercharged build on either a 08 gen cbr1000 or an old blackbird. I'm kind of itching to make a properly dumb drag bike now

(Edit) I also think its kinda neat to show what you can do on a stock wheelbase bike. I want to encourage more people to race at the strip and such.

[–] behohippy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sold. I'll take the TTR230. 16hp of air cooled fury on full knobs. Triple digit quarter mile times are fine right?

[–] Thesecondhorseman@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 1 points 1 year ago

If you showed up to my local track on that you'd have a line of dudes who have 8 second bikes giving you tips and cheering you on.

Shit I'd be hype to play around with it and see just how fast you could actually get it going lmao

[–] janosch@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks cool. Are you running with regular street tires on the track?

[–] Thesecondhorseman@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 2 points 1 year ago

Depending on what I'm doing yes

The tires are not good, and I wouldn't use them for road course. But they do okay on the street and at the strip and I'm too lazy to set up a set of wheels for drag racing (for now)

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