Anna

Looking forward to seeing the EFE run again.

Old skool rules, even the owners are no spring chickens.

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Did someone mention team hats?

My launch was a bit slow but the SuperStreet guy ran a mid 7 secs vs my 11s!

Finally might have worked put how to add a you tube clip. This is when I decided to race a SuperStreet rider, for fun, like you do....

Thanks. Haven't signed up to YouTube but Might give it a go.

Getting ready for 2018 season. The Nitrous system has been installed, plumbed in and tested. All ready for me to haul up the big girls pants this season. Going to start by getting used to the 6in over swingarm and launching harder. Once I feel confident launching at higher revs will start to bring in the nitrous. Starting with 25% at 5secs building to 100% over 4 secs but guessing we will rapidly start altering. The aim is to bring it in earlier in the run as I get more confident. The Nitrous set up is NOS solenoids with a progressive controller. I will have to do well by the jets as they have an illustrious pedigree from the Warpspeed stable. Hoping to do them proud. They have given me an extra 50bhp and 50 ft/lbs torque (187bhp and 132 ft/lbs). We couldpush it harder but the set up should minimise potential damage to the engine. The Nitrous will come in once the throttle is fully open. I wish I could post the mp4 vid of the dyno run as it is loud and awesome! Does anyone else find watching your bike on a dyno a bit nerve wracking? Listening to the bike roaring up to full power I felt amazed that I have the courage to ride it up a track. I am excited and looking forward to this new chapter.

No - the hat is at least 10 cats in the house, on the "Mad cat lady" scale. And, I have knitted worse and will continue to do so.

Didn't try to launch hard as it's a new bike to me. Once moving it felt great but I only had 3 runs toward the end of the day. We have got a larger air filter for the intake as the old one might have been too restrictive for a 1/4 mile run under full steam. Looking forward to running nitrous. That will be another first for me so won't be going all out for the first few runs.

Diaphragm.

Never used the back brake on launch. It is still a street bike so I just used to ride like I was in a traffic light grand prix, let out clutch and twist throttle. The only difference with the lock up (single stage) is that I have to let the clutch straight out, not feather it. That is taking some getting used to as I now wind the throttle wide open, hold on the two step and dump the clutch. The first few times of using it I overheated it and it dragged me across the start line but I seem to have got used to it. Still working on launches - getting the courage to just dump the clutch and deal with the result. Everyone has been telling me to get a longer swingarm so that's for next season. And the NOS...

Thanks.

Thanks

This is so cool. Female power squared (builder and rider) and the slo-mo footage of Lizz riding the bike thru it's attempts to shake her off is awesome.

Thanks. From now on will start posting after each race.

Slowly getting the hang of online forums.

Feel 10x cooler already.

Not sure im brave enough for that. Yet.

Anna's Racing report - the story so far 09 October 2017 21:35 This all started in July 2015 with a day out at North Weald, where I took my old Z900 up a drag-strip for the first time ever, having owned it since 1980. The 2016 season saw me switch to our old Suzuki Slingshot, which had been hibernating in the spare garage. Second time out on it at the Pod I was slowing down from 117mph when I locked the front end and ended up bouncing down the slow down area, writing off my helmet, brand new leathers and gloves but, happily, not the Slingshot which slid down the track on one side. This was when I learned how wonderful the emergency response crew and medics at Santa Pod are © And got acquainted with Bedford Hospital A&E. Some TLC and parts replacement on the bike meant I was back at North Weald the next week just to prove to myself I could still ride it and to make sure it still ran true. Just aimed to get up the 1/4 mile and back safely so times and top speeds were well down. The front brake lever, bar end, exhaust and points cover took most of the damage. Luckily we had a Vance & Hines exhaust in the shed (thanks to Kyle's hoarding tendencies). One of the reasons for the crash was that I couldn’t get my right foot onto the peg and use the back brake so one of the main post-crash mods was setting the footpegs back making it much easier to get my feet on them. The first few times I rode at Santa Pod post-crash, I concentrated on just getting across the line and back to the pairing lanes safely and the rest of the 2016 season was really about getting my confidence and some consistency back. Between the 2016 and 2017 seasons we repainted the body work, lowered the bike even more, fitted a Nitron shock, a Dyna 2000 system, 38 mm Flatslide carbs and treated it to a dyno session thanks to the wonderful chaps at Warpspeed in deepest Norfolk. Eblag provided a second hand set of BKS leathers and I signed up for the RWYB Challenge at Santa Pod, so in Feb 2017 I shivered and ran up the foggy track as fast as I dared. Which wasn’t very fast. In March 2017 I did the dial-in day at Santa Pod, as the only motorcycle so want to give huge shout out and thanks to Dave Grundy who came along to give me someone to ride against. The bike started to misfire so didn’t do great times and headed back to Warpspeed for some trouble-shooting. The culprit was the Dyna leads and the coil shorting out. While we were up there we got Stuart Crane to fit a lock-up clutch and 2-step, so I had to get my head round yet another a new set up. I got used to the lock-up before I attempted to use the 2-step and started with a gentle 3500rpm launch working up to its current setting of 4000rpm. I'm still getting used to winding open the throttle, dumping the clutch and having the front end come up (at least I think it does - no photographic evidence yet). 2017 is when I started to learn how to really ride the Slingshot and began to get near its capacity with a standard engine, gearing and swingarm set up. In July I got my first 10sec run and in September I managed 3 PB runs in one day, finishing with a 10.8! I like to think I have improved this season, my times bear this out as I have gone from 13 & 14 sec runs at the beginning of the season in Feb 2017 to consistent low 11s in autumn 2017. Another recent personal achievement is being able to pull out good runs towards the end of the day, whereas I used to get tired and my times went down towards the end of the day and I started to make "D'Oh" mistakes - taking off in neutral anyone? Last meet of 2017 (29 Oct) and I got the chance to ride our new Slingshot "Chip Shop Express", which used to be the Warpspeed chip-shop-run bike. Never ridden a turbo bike hard before but it felt really good and another credit to Stuart Crane's bike-building skill. As a paid-up science nerd, I graph my times after each session and the graph is my times on the Slingshot over 2 seasons. The regression line tells me that I really am getting faster and more consistent (even when it doesn’t feel like it). Next year we are hoping to run 2 Slingshots, one nitrous and the other turbo - Mr & Mrs will be going head to head! Big shout-out to the RWYB and Drag Racing family that we are becoming part of; my fellow riders who made me welcome in the RWYB Challenge at Santa Pod; Straightliners and our Pendine Land Speed friends. XXXXX Especial thanks to Chris Tombleson and Gary Hurd at Grumpy's 1260 Performance for encouragement and advice of my early efforts on my old Kawasaki Z900 and the pink handlebar grips that will become my signature. Gary - you said "do burn outs" - I'm getting there. To Stuart Crane (a Top Fuel racer giving little newbie me help and advice ), Martin Hewitt (Electrical Genius) and John Wood (Dyno Wiz) and all at Warpspeed for their amazing bike building and tuning and for inviting us to be part of the experience. So here's to a great 2018 season from Kyle Rushby - Chief Pit Bitch and me "the Rider". The 'Rents will be going Racing…..

Thanks - might stick to "Tiny Dragon" for now. Not sure I'm brave enough for anything bigger on sand, just yet.

Btw Surely I'm not the first winged Hammerette - Clairetoo must be one as well.

Many Thanks. Proud to be a Winged Hammerette. Hoping to do my old skool suzuki proud.