I raced Harley's at Virgina International Raceway, I miss those times and all the guys I used to race with from Virginia Beach and Norfolk. I Live in LaGrange, Texas now and no longer race but still ride!
1990 i went to the drag strip in muncie indiana for the first time on my 1987 VT1100cc honda shadow. muncie ran ET, Elapse Time racing. the show ran 13.65 seconds in 1/4 mile. at 96mph. not fast, but very consistent. hot, cold, warm, the shadow ran 13.65. in 1991 i ran everytime the gate was open at Muncie. wednsday, saturday, and sunday. i ran as many passes as i could during time trails. i got my reaction time down to an average .550 - .575, on a .500 tree. i raced bikes, cars, 4 wheelers, as long as it was ET. 1992 i ran at Indy for the first time. I ran all season at both tracks. if the gates were open, you found me at the track. i ran as part of the Indy Team, at the NHRA Indy Nationals in 92, I also ran as a Team Member in Norwalk Ohio for Muncie IHRA ran again at both tracks 93, and 94. in September of 94 i bought a kawasaki drag bike, 1200cc 8.5" slick, 9.6sec, 130+mph, 1/4mile finished out 94 on the kaw, but ran both bikes. front of the line with the kaw, and mid line with the shadow, round and round i'd go. made both teams every year i ran. the kaw was so much fun. again ran both bikes in 1995, again made both teams. i ran at action traction one event in terre haute Indiana, ran at Bunker Hill outside of Kokomo Indiana a few times. won at action traction, and bunker hill. on the shadow. at Bunker Hill, and on the Kaw at action Traction. I raced with Wesley Wells in Muncie, along with David and Mary Taylor, plus Tom Sudman. I miss the racing, the crowds, and the fellowship among the racers. Run what You brung, was the saying at Muncie. Indy was strict on what ran on their track.
I was always for multi's but, Harley's and Indians are coming up on the charts. I've got a 1200 Harley Sportster 2004 model year and it's very stable. I'm on the side of the V-twins.
Torque is handy if you're pulling out a stump. Not so much when you're trying to get a Harley to go faster than 80. Only HD riders use torque as a measuring stick. Everyone else uses horsepower.....oh, and speed. Measurements Harley seems to find unimportant.
@db3170 demanding? I have owned both and the Harley with its massive amount of torque was so forgiving and easy to race. You could accidentally leave in 2nd and it would still go, and not lose much time. My gs drag bike, if you try to leave at the wrong RPM, it will die or, at best, bogg for a second or 2.
It would be more interesting to bagger against bagger and cruiser against cruiser, etc... instead of modified metrics against bagger and cruiser Harleys. Something like an Electra Glide Ultra Classic against a Goldwing. I actually like both, but I don't like copycats, metrics trying to look like a Harley cruiser, but at the same time I really appreciate The Honda Valkyrie I'm even thinking about purchasing one. The only bikes I have owned in the last 40 years have been Harleys, my first big twin, a 1978 flh (bobber now) I still own. 1991 Springer Softtail and a 1992 Electra Glide Ultra Classic are my latest bikes. I prefer bikes that are relatively easy to work on with common hand tools 🔧 with no need for a computer to diagnose and / or program to get running.
This is not head to head leave the starting line at the exact same time TRUE DRAG racing! I have always loved true drag racing but all these guys are doing is racing a clock and not actually each other. Handicapped Racing is, and in my book, will never be true drag racing. Go heads up racing and the win lose percentage ratio will change dramatically in favor of the Japanese bikes, no doubt about it!! My 250cc scooter could take home the winning trophy in bracket racing.😁
I had a Ducati Diavel and this dude with a Harley V Rod was always taunting me, wanted to race I don’t like to ride carelessly , but finally I said one day on a beautiful day in a place with no Traffic and no people around let’s just go across this wide bridge ; whoever gets to the other side first 🤔😎 let’s just say he never asked me again 😂 he ate Diavel Smoke 💨
Harley V-Rod raced by Vance and Hines dethroned and crippled the mighty, hahaha,GS11000 Suzuki in the quarter mile. Racing council penalized the V-Rod by forcing V&H to add weight to the bike.V-Rod still crushed every single rice puff on track . Everyone knows a rice puff is cheap and don't last.The Iron Horse Harley Davidson can carry the mail or shit on it, whatever you want.👏👏👏
Dude , Harley is just like Ducati , big Cry Babies !! They always are allowed bigger ci engines by ALOT !! Same with Ducati in the road racing bikes , they both cry that they’re only running two cylinders , well last time I checked cubic inches are cubic inches !!!!
@@gd6349 Harley is nothing like Ducati. Ducati is junk like all Italian bikes. Harleys are not racers, they are good solid road bikes, something you probably wouldn't know about, especially pimping up and down the main drag in town with your go pro.🥱
@@billbonu1639 I don't know what rainbow power is, obviously your familiar with it. The facts are in the record books.You be careful out there in your loafers now.👏👍
Cubic inches aren't cubic inches when one is able to rev much higher much faster. Comparing them like that is just dumb,especially when one is pushrod and air cooled and the other is OHC liquid cooled😂
So,they take dragster rice burners against regular harleys... why not put the harlet dragster against the rice burners? Doesn't make sense. Just like pitting a chevy 4x4 with a big block and positive traction against a Ford 2wd with a smaller engine and saying the chevy won.
I see Jack still is refusing to get a proper MIC so he can be heard, don't know what his issue with that is. Maybe he just doesn't know how to connect it to his camera system what ever that is. I really don't even like watching his video because of the piss poor audio.
i use to ride my street legal gs 1150 a 100 miles to track. beat every pro comp harley pile i would face then ride it back home.. why would anyone race a vtwin? lucky if they make it to end of strip
Where's their no official Harley "ride with pride"rainbow flag?or they only do that in certain places?ride with pride and have yourself a bud light and let real men and women handle the racing scene.I made my neighbor sell his brand new Sportster when I drove off and left him on my girlfriend's Bergman 650 moped 😂😆😆 I lost count of the hot rod harleys I've left in my dust on my fjr.by 3rd gear they usually give up.and it's bone stock,no tuner or anything.
Am actually a motorcycle technician 32 years I work on Harleys as well. I definitely take pride in my rides gotta admit there's a reason they call um piss rockets. 😂
@DEADPOLES Hopefully you are talking about the second race that full dresser, definitely he needs to keep it for a cruiser, myself I think he was trying to figure out what time it would do, my friend he is up to age now , but he is a RED n WHITE and they race Harley davidson's for 30 years , the last 10 years he does rice burners now because they are quicker
Let's get real... most of what's shown has NO relation to the real world. Run any showroom stock H-D against a showroom stock "anything else" that's 1000 cc or over, and it's no contest.
The most fun drag races to watch are 150 cc races in Thailand. Why metric bikers have to cry and whine and get all bent out of shape about this I'll never understand. All of these races are fun and if not for Harleys, a massive number if Japanese racers would never win. Enjoy and stop crying. It's embarrassing.
You can buy a Honda cbr1000rrrrrrrr cheap this year for only $28,900.00.. Same price as a harley ❤ with a sofa, refrigerator, microwave oven and a color TV....i'll take the Buell that weights 400 lbs makes 185 hp and goes 185 mph and cost is $10,000 dollars cheaper than a honda and drive circles around everything
You are a liar raceing jack , you know good and well the team of Vance & Hines and Harley-Davidson won the championship of the national Hot rod association 10 consecutive years in a row Jack.. you just told everybody the opposite didn't you Jack... Just like you always do...
"The Harleys have come a long way."
Well, yeah, they're like 2 1/2 liters now
This is why they have "All Harley" drags. It's the only way they can win.
Apparently you didn't watch the video lol tons of Harleys won😂😂
@@jonnymac8925 is it really winning when you get a 3 second head start?
@@buildingracingvideos4714 to account for 1/2 the pistons missing, yes.
U silly man U have no idea how fast N far we come 😅🎉
@@vtwinpower1903 Well, "fast and far" wasn't here.
How come no Vmax"s????
Harley Davidsons are best left for the ride to the bar.
That first bike in the video was bad ass!
😎👍👍
Yeah Harley's not getting beat up by Suzuki anymore as the Harley leaves the line with a 4-second handicappted
Whats the wheel base on those harleys stretched
It's a magic number only the owner is allowed to know
I raced Harley's at Virgina International Raceway, I miss those times and all the guys I used to race with from Virginia Beach and Norfolk. I Live in LaGrange, Texas now and no longer race but still ride!
@Mr.Dan7171. I believe there's gonna be some Harley drags in Temple 4 July WK. Come on down to Houston and have a cold one on me.🍻🇺🇸😎
Can anyone tell me what gears i use n best chain for building a Harley dyna drag bike to run on a 143 to start?
1990 i went to the drag strip in muncie indiana for the first time on my 1987 VT1100cc honda shadow. muncie ran ET, Elapse Time racing.
the show ran 13.65 seconds in 1/4 mile. at 96mph. not fast, but very consistent. hot, cold, warm, the shadow ran 13.65.
in 1991 i ran everytime the gate was open at Muncie. wednsday, saturday, and sunday. i ran as many passes as i could during time trails.
i got my reaction time down to an average .550 - .575, on a .500 tree. i raced bikes, cars, 4 wheelers, as long as it was ET.
1992 i ran at Indy for the first time. I ran all season at both tracks. if the gates were open, you found me at the track.
i ran as part of the Indy Team, at the NHRA Indy Nationals in 92, I also ran as a Team Member in Norwalk Ohio for Muncie IHRA
ran again at both tracks 93, and 94. in September of 94 i bought a kawasaki drag bike, 1200cc 8.5" slick, 9.6sec, 130+mph, 1/4mile
finished out 94 on the kaw, but ran both bikes. front of the line with the kaw, and mid line with the shadow, round and round i'd go.
made both teams every year i ran. the kaw was so much fun. again ran both bikes in 1995, again made both teams.
i ran at action traction one event in terre haute Indiana, ran at Bunker Hill outside of Kokomo Indiana a few times. won at action traction, and bunker hill.
on the shadow. at Bunker Hill, and on the Kaw at action Traction.
I raced with Wesley Wells in Muncie, along with David and Mary Taylor, plus Tom Sudman.
I miss the racing, the crowds, and the fellowship among the racers.
Run what You brung, was the saying at Muncie. Indy was strict on what ran on their track.
That's a pretty sweet story and a hell of a lot of racing!!
Thanks for the entertaining break. My birthday today 69.🤠
Which part of it is Harley??
None of it is a Harley...If you want a harley to be fast...you have to delete all the harley parts....
That's not remotely true loll
Only time Harley wins is when it's got a head start.. 😂
Is it possible for you to stop being a dick?
I own both so love them both
There is very little on a Harley drag bike that's even Harley it's all aftermarket heads cylinders and so on and so on
Not necessarily lol
Oh and that Suzuki was all Suzuki too eh bud don't think soooo😅
Same with crotch ROCKETS BUDS 😅 4:31
Light crowds in the stands though...😁
7.75 @ 183...That is badass.
What event was this at the rock?
I was always for multi's but, Harley's and Indians are coming up on the charts. I've got a 1200 Harley Sportster 2004 model year and it's very stable. I'm on the side of the V-twins.
Greg is the ultimate professor of torque..no one else is close
Torque is handy if you're pulling out a stump. Not so much when you're trying to get a Harley to go faster than 80. Only HD riders use torque as a measuring stick. Everyone else uses horsepower.....oh, and speed. Measurements Harley seems to find unimportant.
@@jimdavidson7771 yer just temporarily confused.. it'll come to ya
Yah, who would think that torque in a 1/8 or 1/4 mile would count....oh wait, that's because it does😂
Harley-Davidson. Ride. Hard. Die. Free
No comparison!!! Harley is way more intense and demanding to master regardless of the finish line outcome… I own them both 🏁
No they aren't! Not with less power lol
@db3170 demanding? I have owned both and the Harley with its massive amount of torque was so forgiving and easy to race. You could accidentally leave in 2nd and it would still go, and not lose much time. My gs drag bike, if you try to leave at the wrong RPM, it will die or, at best, bogg for a second or 2.
@@db3170 will either you're full of shit or you haven't wrote them both yet
Tennis shoes?
That bike was quick...
looks like a fun night , where is everybody !!??
It would be more interesting to bagger against bagger and cruiser against cruiser, etc... instead of modified metrics against bagger and cruiser Harleys.
Something like an Electra Glide Ultra Classic against a Goldwing.
I actually like both, but I don't like copycats, metrics trying to look like a Harley cruiser, but at the same time I really appreciate The Honda Valkyrie I'm even thinking about purchasing one.
The only bikes I have owned in the last 40 years have been Harleys, my first big twin, a 1978 flh (bobber now) I still own.
1991 Springer Softtail and a 1992 Electra Glide Ultra Classic are my latest bikes.
I prefer bikes that are relatively easy to work on with common hand tools 🔧 with no need for a computer to diagnose and / or program to get running.
Did you rainbow them out yet? 😆😅😁 "Ride with pride"brother!!
You don't need a computer do diagnose them.. You idiots who say shit like that have clearly never even tried...
I can't even wanna try
This is not head to head leave the starting line at the exact same time TRUE DRAG racing! I have always loved true drag racing but all these guys are doing is racing a clock and not actually each other. Handicapped Racing is, and in my book, will never be true drag racing. Go heads up racing and the win lose percentage ratio will change dramatically in favor of the Japanese bikes, no doubt about it!! My 250cc scooter could take home the winning trophy in bracket racing.😁
I’d give up riding before owning any Harley.
I had a Ducati Diavel and this dude with a Harley V Rod was always taunting me, wanted to race I don’t like to ride carelessly , but finally I said one day on a beautiful day in a place with no Traffic and no people around let’s just go across this wide bridge ; whoever gets to the other side first 🤔😎 let’s just say he never asked me again 😂 he ate Diavel Smoke 💨
2 cylinders against 4 cylinders 🤔 let me see here.
I want to bmw enter the race,love to see one the bmw big bikes show up
Sad.... even when those nasty POS Harleys get a half track start they STILL lose! 🤣🤣
You need some more Buddhist videos apparently 🎉🎉
I have a Suzuki V-twin, had many of them actually....
When you get a chance to leave first.. don't red light!
Tell us there times Bro ;)€
Sweet and fast, just the way they should be 😊
Harley V-Rod raced by Vance and Hines dethroned and crippled the mighty, hahaha,GS11000 Suzuki in the quarter mile. Racing council penalized the V-Rod by forcing V&H to add weight to the bike.V-Rod still crushed every single rice puff on track . Everyone knows a rice puff is cheap and don't last.The Iron Horse Harley Davidson can carry the mail or shit on it, whatever you want.👏👏👏
Dude , Harley is just like Ducati , big Cry Babies !! They always are allowed bigger ci engines by ALOT !!
Same with Ducati in the road racing bikes , they both cry that they’re only running two cylinders , well last time I checked cubic inches are cubic inches !!!!
@@gd6349 Harley is nothing like Ducati. Ducati is junk like all Italian bikes. Harleys are not racers, they are good solid road bikes, something you probably wouldn't know about, especially pimping up and down the main drag in town with your go pro.🥱
@@billbonu1639 I don't know what rainbow power is, obviously your familiar with it. The facts are in the record books.You be careful out there in your loafers now.👏👍
@sevenin1 the gsxr1100 is a thing of the past...
Today's bikes aren't slower.....
My 2023 gsxr 1000 makes 200whp....
Cubic inches aren't cubic inches when one is able to rev much higher much faster. Comparing them like that is just dumb,especially when one is pushrod and air cooled and the other is OHC liquid cooled😂
Drag racing with bags???
No SUCH THING as Fast Harley !!!
Lol the first one ran 7 seconds but sure😂
Shout out from NZ.
He's got serious Kathmandu traction
Harley’s belong on trailers. Period!
V TWIN NOW, I USE TO RACE CTOTCH ROCKETS NOW ITS 143 BABY🎉
Harley Vtwins! Can’t beat that Nitro Harley rumble
Doesn't even matter about that. Harley or not you're racing road bikes against Track bikes. Come on man!
So,they take dragster rice burners against regular harleys... why not put the harlet dragster against the rice burners? Doesn't make sense. Just like pitting a chevy 4x4 with a big block and positive traction against a Ford 2wd with a smaller engine and saying the chevy won.
I see Jack still is refusing to get a proper MIC so he can be heard, don't know what his issue with that is. Maybe he just doesn't know how to connect it to his camera system what ever that is. I really don't even like watching his video because of the piss poor audio.
Awesome
That guy said the Harleys are holding their own, is he joking
Koby gets a gimmie!
Suzuki all the way 💪💪👍
i use to ride my street legal gs 1150 a 100 miles to track. beat every pro comp harley pile i would face then ride it back home.. why would anyone race a vtwin? lucky if they make it to end of strip
Sure😂
Imagine how fast he could go on a bike that's actually fast.
I like Harley
Where's their no official Harley "ride with pride"rainbow flag?or they only do that in certain places?ride with pride and have yourself a bud light and let real men and women handle the racing scene.I made my neighbor sell his brand new Sportster when I drove off and left him on my girlfriend's Bergman 650 moped 😂😆😆
I lost count of the hot rod harleys I've left in my dust on my fjr.by 3rd gear they usually give up.and it's bone stock,no tuner or anything.
Should have put harley7.73 against that busa not a dresser harley
It's a joke to even think that Harleys have any chance here..stick to cruising let real bikes continue to dominate. 😂
your full of shit
Am actually a motorcycle technician 32 years I work on Harleys as well. I definitely take pride in my rides gotta admit there's a reason they call um piss rockets. 😂
@DEADPOLES Hopefully you are talking about the second race that full dresser, definitely he needs to keep it for a cruiser, myself I think he was trying to figure out what time it would do, my friend he is up to age now , but he is a
RED n WHITE and they race Harley davidson's for 30 years , the last 10 years he does rice burners now because they are quicker
Lmao go stare at the sun some more. You don't even ride 🎉🎉
Shit yeah brother... liter bikes all day!!!!
Let's get real... most of what's shown has NO relation to the real world. Run any showroom stock H-D against a showroom stock "anything else" that's 1000 cc or over, and it's no contest.
Lol comparing a vtwin to an inline is hilarious.
Need a Harley tool.bag to catch the parts falling off😂
Most riders can’t launch a sport bike.
Nc 😊 harley
Your Audio needs a little work.
🌋👍🎙🎵💚🎶🔊🎥🍿😎. From Surprise🏜
More Honda.
come on man its not the fastest its bracket racin
Hasta un desirr /(@)
The most fun drag races to watch are 150 cc races in Thailand. Why metric bikers have to cry and whine and get all bent out of shape about this I'll never understand. All of these races are fun and if not for Harleys, a massive number if Japanese racers would never win. Enjoy and stop crying. It's embarrassing.
You can buy a Honda cbr1000rrrrrrrr cheap this year for only $28,900.00..
Same price as a harley ❤ with a sofa, refrigerator, microwave oven and a color TV....i'll take the Buell that weights 400 lbs makes 185 hp and goes 185 mph and cost is $10,000 dollars cheaper than a honda and drive circles around everything
Make sure they give you your official Harley "ride with pride"rainbow gear when you get it 😂😆😆😂
@@billbonu1639he said buell not Harley budro 🎉too much fairy dust huh?
There is no such thing as a 400lb 185hp buell.........
Let's be realistic and mention that a 2023 suzuki gsxr 1000 starts at less than $17,000.... That includes 3 axistraction control.
@@elonmust7470 look again and this time try using the internet and Google it
Metric
Always stupid Harleys against Real drag bikes
Standard VS. Metric
You are a liar raceing jack , you know good and well the team of Vance & Hines and Harley-Davidson won the championship of the national Hot rod association 10 consecutive years in a row Jack.. you just told everybody the opposite didn't you Jack... Just like you always do...
kinda boring
HD
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