Only assume
- Thread starter Blasterr
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Historically those big street bike conversions don't fair well at the track. A turbo on them helps though.
It seems you can not get around their heavy weight and with a standard dirt track being only 300ft by the time they catch up it over.
Sand rat runs deep into the 3's. You got to be smoking fast with a good set-up bike to run those times.
It seems you can not get around their heavy weight and with a standard dirt track being only 300ft by the time they catch up it over.
Sand rat runs deep into the 3's. You got to be smoking fast with a good set-up bike to run those times.
If you lined up a competitive hill shooter or dune bike up against a purpose built dragger, it would get edged out. The reason is simple, hill shooters and dune bikes are built different for their intended purpose. Both hill shooters and dune bikes need suspension to soak up the bumps.
Drag racing is all about initial acceleration (off the line) an anything that doesn't achieve that purpose is simply adding weight. Two vehicles even similar in power output race and the one that gets the jump will generally win. To that end, suspension generally isn't required or wanted... instead you use wheelie bars to keep it from flipping over backwards when you launch the bike. Notice none of those have wheelie bars but because the sand is so soft, they're rolling off slowly? Just a different purpose built machine...
Drag racing is all about initial acceleration (off the line) an anything that doesn't achieve that purpose is simply adding weight. Two vehicles even similar in power output race and the one that gets the jump will generally win. To that end, suspension generally isn't required or wanted... instead you use wheelie bars to keep it from flipping over backwards when you launch the bike. Notice none of those have wheelie bars but because the sand is so soft, they're rolling off slowly? Just a different purpose built machine...
