One day drag bike conversion

[Kid Kearsley]

The plan is to go to Santa Pod for Race Rock n Ride and see what it will do on the 1/4 mile. 

Obviously a jacked up turbo wheelie bike with a 55" wheelbase ain't gunna do well at Pod. 

Up early then,

 

Get to Bobs Tyres to have a Shinko fitted

Now off to @Zepp to finish the swingarm modifications, using the arm for my other project, new Spindle blocks made, new swingarm bearings, torque arm made and mounted, threaded adjusters, chain guard mounts & new brake lines etc etc 

Turn the back of the van into a workshop then...

sammich

best buy some tickets then

 

Chain and lowering to do and il be ready 

 

 

Edited May 14, 2017 by Kid Kearsley

[minx]

Sweet. See you there.

[Sheep]

I like the way you this bike evolves from one type of racing to another...multi purpose hooligan machine....maybe see you Sunday too.

[Zepp]

Triangulated sandwiches!!!

[Kid Kearsley]

Home safe 

[KATANAMANGLER]

Waffley versatile!

[stockcar]

We need more 'spec' on the sandwich set-up........

[Paulm]

Good lad,see ya there.

[homer]

Uuuh she is sexy 

Edited May 15, 2017 by homer
That -> she

[et1170]

will look out for you at the weekend , looks good

 

[Kid Kearsley]

Ok, so I was ambitious with the title of "...One Day..." ...One Week..." would me more accurate.

So yesterday was all about lowering the rear and fitting the chain and tidying up a few loose ends. As with any last minute things the dog bones sent to me from Evil bay did not lower the bike but raise it up further, guy up the pubs a hero and said he will have some made up for me tomorrow, think he sensed my rage at a certain Eblag seller. 

Max loves midnight bike building

So it got late, wrap it up Kid.

Back on it today, Airshifter time. So dad used to do drag racing... he's got plenty of spares.... raid the box! 

Looky what I found 

Herrrro. Winning. 

Quick bastardisation of some Harris rear sets to steal the gear shifter as my one current one is more sloppier than a sloppy thing from that dodgy middle eastern takeaway that's open till right late on the weekends. 

So it's 1am, I'm tired, but everything is wired and plumbed. The only outstanding thing is mounting of the Ram to the bike, il sort that tomorrow.... lets hope them linkages turn up eh.

[KATANAMANGLER]

You almost look like you know what you're doing.

[fatblokeonbandit]

2 hours ago, KATANAMANGLER said:

You almost look like you know what you're doing.

How can you say that!!!!!

 

 

Just look!!! Cheese sarnies with NO PICKLE.......disgustings.........

 

 

 

But the bike,,,, bugger me that's shiny

[KATANAMANGLER]

42 minutes ago, fatblokeonbandit said:

How can you say that!!!!!

 

 

Just look!!! Cheese sarnies with NO PICKLE.......disgustings.........

I did say almost....

[Kid Kearsley]

 

 

[Kid Kearsley]

Getting there 

[Kid Kearsley]

Loads to do, 2hr 45 travel to Pod, still gotta finish bike and load van etc etc 

[clivegto]

Uuuh, nicely done.

[Kid Kearsley]

Best pack that van then, ready as it will ever be 

[Kid Kearsley]

Note to self, find my other winged hammer sticker. Like now 

[Kid Kearsley]

Usual boring stuff, load up the kitchen sink etc, £100 in diesel n gennie fuel etc. Should be at Pod for 9-10am 

Think I need to catch a few hours sleep as Iv been burning the candle at both ends getting the old girl ready. 

[Swirl]

looking forward to your times kid,

[teltwosheds]

Hope it's going well for ya!. Back in the dayz of old a few of my mates used to burn the candle at both ends, we called em the "mangle minds" 

[Paulm]

Well done today Kev,I'll let you post your times up.

[Kid Kearsley]

Well after bigger all sleep it was back up at UnGodly O'clock to get to Santa Pod for 10am. 

joined forces with John McLean in the pits, set everything up and do the last minute stuff I couldn't get done the night before.

quick test of the air shifter round the car park, talk about kid with a new toy  

So I Queued and queued, and it rained and it rained.. 

Back to the soaked pits 

oh got some C16 too

So I queued. Again

eventually it rained so much they just called the event for the day. Zero runs.

Back to the pits, now since I blew it up I haven't had the fuelling tested on the Dyno, a nice man was charging £19 for two power runs. So I asked Jess for some pocket money.

Back to the pits, again, to make some changes based on the fuelling data acquired.

In bed at 9pm like a good boy.

Sunday morning and it's cracking the flags 

some plebs arrived

First run I was taking it easy as I didn't know if the airshifter would work under load, launched at 5k and the track just soaked all the power out and she bogs. 10.45 @ 150mph 

 

Talking to Ollie I needed to up my rpm off the line to overcome the grip levels that Santa Pod can give. So Ollie kindly offered to see me through my burnout and up to line. Launch at 7k feet now on the rear pegs because I know the shifter works.

 Launches a lot better but still bogs, hit the shifter into 2nd and it stands on its back wheel, back down, hit the shifter again and it stands back up again. Sorry no video

So queue back up again and we manage to get back out in under 10 mins so the engine is still red hot...

still a little bit of bog off the line and you can hear it doesn't quite go into top gear on the shifter. I have a video of the 9.6 from the stands il load up later. 

I believe with a little more practice and a better suspension setup this bike would go very low 9's

Well I'm happy for a weeks work anyway