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Ever see the movie 'space cowboys' where at the end tommy lee jones character literally straps himself to a russian rocket and lights it? I imagine this is the same. just a way to become road pizza
I don't think you ride them. You point them and hope they go where you point them. I loved going to the drags w/ my motorcycles. A friend drove my Yamaha 90 for me at the strip (I was only 14) against a factory Honda 90 4 cylinder road racer driven by a factory rider named Doug Prescott. He spotted my bike 5 seconds, and even though Prescott had to slip the clutch on the Honda halfway down the strip in 1st gear due to its road race gearing, he outran my Yamaha well before the lights.
In my 40+ years of riding bikes, I never felt the urge to ride a bike in a straight line, no matter how fast. Bikes are meant to ride in the twisties.
Most bikes are a lot of fun in straight lines. My bike takes corners and does go straight. I couldn't imagine only turns or only straight lines in 40 years of driving.
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I used to drag race bikes, but I wouldn't get on one of those things.
Hard to believe that TF cars are 100 MPH faster....
I saw Elmer Trett one time, I guess when they were somewhere in the 6s at around 220 maybe? It was really something to see/hear from the stands but I'd guess from the bike it'd surely qualify as sensory overload.
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