Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Along for the ride

wicked great wheelie bar view(the first 2 mins is the run and the rest is returning to the pits)
awesome dual view of run
good view of the tach and shift lights 

Cha Cha Cha

Shirley Muldowney, Mrs Cha-Cha battled and beat the best of them on the strip.
She definitely proved herself and looked very good while doing it.
Shirley Muldowney





Monday, August 30, 2010

Saturday night at Phoenix's   SpeedWorld Dragstrip
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dick cheney would love this kinda of motorcycle

i actually watched the entirety of this very bad movie.
Watch out for Vampire Norton Commandos that run on blood


Sunday, August 29, 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Wheel Standing

good old fashion wheel standing on the track.

and some early car drag racing footage

Monday, August 23, 2010

DYNO-MITE

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110 degrees in a dyno test cell basically simulates riding in the Arizona summer heat

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Math and Motorcycles

Learning some intense motor tuning stuff!
Definitely an eye-opening class

TDC
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Honda drag bikes

Lots of metric drag bikes are of the Suzuki and Kawasaki flavor.
So before the Z1000 and GS1100 motors, Honda was there early in the game.
(Not to mention Triumph and H-D) but you don't seem tons
of Honda drag bikes, so I just thought i'd show them some love.

*update* Just found this sweet video of Bob Malloy and John Sands rocking the strip with there Honda Funny Bike. An all motor bike running nitro, mmMmm



Heres a photo from 1966, of Denis Manning of BUB Streamliner Land Speed Recorder Team
rocketing on his Honda CB450


V4 powered Honda Sabre, Dave Dodge of DPR
I believe our racing buddy, Rich use to drag race a Honda Sabre too.

Russ Collins on his triple Honda motor'd monster that almost killed him, but became the first seven second drag bike. Russ did double and triple motor CB bikes, and even one with a 2000cc Goldwing motor!

and another well known Honda drag racer, Kent Stotz. He's build a Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird (200mph)  and this CBR1000 Turbo

I've seen these absolutely killer Honda CB750 street/drag bikes all over the net.
It belongs to the guys over at Garage Company in Cali





Sunday, August 8, 2010

2 stoking the strip

Lurked the dragbike.com forums and found a plethora of great 2 stroke drag bikes. Must have been exciting to get your head whipped back and plow your way down the track on a super light machine.  Hopefully history will repeat itself and bring back more heinous 2 strokes



























Thursday, August 5, 2010

F-Track

Chatting it up with my pops the other day and he likes to bring up
cool motorcycle stories, well the story goes that my grandpa's old
buddy's used to flat track an Ariel Square Four.  thats must be a hoot!

Anyways, some 80's 90's era  flat tracking
lots of these flat track video are uploaded by
Landsurfer6 

Houston, TX

On Board with Bubba Shobert

Asian flat track race

This guys is rocking front brakes 




Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Inline Fours

Since theres gonna be tons of  inline 4 motorcycles gonna be piling up in the boneyards across the world for the next... god knows when.
And since everyone is in a custom building frenzy, maybe let history repeat itself and
throw it down late 1920's style!




the Cooks Customs dudes know what i'm saying

Classy

my pops just happened to mention he got a '73 Triumph Daytona 500
i can't wait to go home next month and give it a go

the only classic bike i've got to ride was his Moto Guzzi 850T.
I definitely have the classic bike bug