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2019 / 2020 Wednesday Night Drags Sonoma
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gixxerjeff
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Haha yeah I've been working on it. My goal was to get it sub 20 for today and I did it on the first run real lucky. It now has an upgraded controller and 72v battery, I was able to hit 77mph on the freeway, people must've been like did I just get passed by a bicycle on the freeway!? It's literally outputting double the power from 7000watts to 15000watts. The launch is real slow I need to do some programming with the controller or put a larger sprocket. I need just enough power so when I dump the regen throttle I don't wheelie.
youtu.be/Xd1tWFlEmrI
Tom was there he was racing a FZR (he's standing right next to Doug in the 1st picture), I never asked why his brother wasn't there my condolences for his wife
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396
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Haha yeah I've been working on it. My goal was to get it sub 20 for today and I did it on the first run real lucky. It now has an upgraded controller and 72v battery, I was able to hit 77mph on the freeway, people must've been like did I just get passed by a bicycle on the freeway!? It's literally outputting double the power from 7000watts to 15000watts. The launch is real slow I need to do some programming with the controller or put a larger sprocket. I need just enough power so when I dump the regen throttle I don't wheelie.
youtu.be/Xd1tWFlEmrI
Tom was there he was racing a FZR (he's standing right next to Doug in the 1st picture), I never asked why his brother wasn't there my condolences for his wife
Nice to see your mods worked out. It's really moving now!
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HadesOmega and myself were there last night. Had around 14 bikes. HadesOmega and myself both made it to the semi finales where we both got eliminated! Weather was great and we both made 6 runs each. The Father and Son duo of Doug and Craig Love faced each other in the finals with the son, Craig getting the win.
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Yeah they have a noise limit for Wednesday nights. Plus the have to be extra careful right now so they don't get shut down by the county/city.
My bike was doing ok for Sears, it runs much better at Sacramento Raceway.
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Were you racing last night? If so which bike?
gixxerjeff
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Yes, Craig has a new triumph. Looks like the 2020 version of Doug's bike. Same colors too!
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gixxerjeff
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Yep it was a Speed Twin love that bike I ran with him twice, his RT was really good. Pix and report when I get home
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Here my pit area, the Prius got the Light Bee to the track just sippin gas
Some bikes that were there, not as many as last week but still a good showing
My first practice run and I got the same time I did last week. This time I was running a 48T sprocket vs last week 42T sprocket. Same time lower top speed. Got lucky first 2 runs had tail winds to help push my featherlight bike along.
Look at all that rubber I picked up from the strip and yes I did a track day at the kart track couple days earlier on this bike
2nd pass is the fastest ever on this bike, I broke into the 18s with the help of the wind! Pretty much everyone got faster this run.
My charging apparatus. I should remember to put gas in the generator though because it ran out after one top off.
Semi Final and Finals bikes all together
Some bikes that were there, not as many as last week but still a good showing
My first practice run and I got the same time I did last week. This time I was running a 48T sprocket vs last week 42T sprocket. Same time lower top speed. Got lucky first 2 runs had tail winds to help push my featherlight bike along.
Look at all that rubber I picked up from the strip and yes I did a track day at the kart track couple days earlier on this bike
2nd pass is the fastest ever on this bike, I broke into the 18s with the help of the wind! Pretty much everyone got faster this run.
My charging apparatus. I should remember to put gas in the generator though because it ran out after one top off.
Semi Final and Finals bikes all together
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So here's how it went for me.
1st pass I ran a 19.2 like I mentioned up above
2nd pass I ran my fastest everytime with the Light Bee 18.89
3rd pass there was a slight headwind but half way down the strip my bike cuts out, so I turn the bike off and on and try to finish but it dies again so I turn it off then on again and make it to the end 24.708
1st Round Elimination
I raced Tyler with the stretched Ninja. He won last WND also. So I don't know what to dial because the there's a headwind and the first 2 runs were tailwind and I messed up my headwind run So i dial in 20.5, well they mess my number up and give me a 20.05 dial. I dialed 20 last week also. So I said whatever... turns out it helped me out a I ran a 19.641! The bike completed the pass this time without cutting out. Got my best RT of the night also .190s. So I hella broke out by like almost half a second. Turns out that bigger sprocket is better through the wind MOTORQUE BABY! Tyler runs a 9.979 against his 10.07 dial. He broke out by less than hundredth of a second! So he should win right? Wrong he got DQ'd because he ran two 9 second passes that night and he didn't have a racing license. So I won on a technicality...
2nd Round Elimination I race against a HD Bagger. So I have a better idea what to what to dial now. I dial in 19.50 since I ran a 19.6 last time. Didn't wanna break out this time. I ran a 19.715 bike ran great. 2 tenths off! The HD dialed a 13.9 and ran a 14.748. I don't think he was very dialed in so I got lucky.
3rd Round Elimination woohoo made it to the semi final! I race against Craig in the Speed Twin again. So this time I'm gonna try to get dialed in closer I think I'll run a 19.7 or higher because the winds pickin up so I dial in 19.6. I ran a 22.740 Hella slow the bike cutout on me again Time is hella off. When I talked to Craig he thought he had given the race to me because he wheelied at the line and you can tell because he dialed in a 11.98 and ran a 12.430, he was about 0.43s off. Soooo it leads me to believe had the bike ran normally I woulda gone to the finals So we both messed up but I messed up more Oh well that's racing!
Least the dude I lost to won the final! I was soooo frustrated the bike was running so well and now it decided to throw a tantrum, had the bike ran fine I woulda won that one. That's what happens when you push the limits I guess. But i had a good night, i got to do 6 runs. I ran my fastest time ever and made it to the semi final on my tiny little bike. Weather was great also, it was hot for maybe and hour or two but the rest of the time it was perfect.
My 18sec pass, sounds like a long time but that's down from last year's 28sec.
youtu.be/z_Eaa2vX2oA
Final Race (whoops fixed link)
youtu.be/QdZtpbNaUAs
1st pass I ran a 19.2 like I mentioned up above
2nd pass I ran my fastest everytime with the Light Bee 18.89
3rd pass there was a slight headwind but half way down the strip my bike cuts out, so I turn the bike off and on and try to finish but it dies again so I turn it off then on again and make it to the end
24.7081st Round Elimination
I raced Tyler with the stretched Ninja. He won last WND also. So I don't know what to dial because the there's a headwind and the first 2 runs were tailwind and I messed up my headwind run
So i dial in 20.5, well they mess my number up and give me a 20.05 dial. I dialed 20 last week also. So I said whatever... turns out it helped me out a I ran a 19.641! The bike completed the pass this time without cutting out. Got my best RT of the night also .190s. So I hella broke out by like almost half a second. Turns out that bigger sprocket is better through the wind MOTORQUE BABY! Tyler runs a 9.979 against his 10.07 dial. He broke out by less than hundredth of a second! So he should win right? Wrong he got DQ'd because he ran two 9 second passes that night and he didn't have a racing license. So I won on a technicality...2nd Round Elimination I race against a HD Bagger. So I have a better idea what to what to dial now. I dial in 19.50 since I ran a 19.6 last time. Didn't wanna break out this time. I ran a 19.715 bike ran great. 2 tenths off! The HD dialed a 13.9 and ran a 14.748. I don't think he was very dialed in so I got lucky.
3rd Round Elimination woohoo made it to the semi final! I race against Craig in the Speed Twin again. So this time I'm gonna try to get dialed in closer I think I'll run a 19.7 or higher because the winds pickin up so I dial in 19.6. I ran a 22.740
Hella slow the bike cutout on me again Time is hella off. When I talked to Craig he thought he had given the race to me because he wheelied at the line and you can tell because he dialed in a 11.98 and ran a 12.430, he was about 0.43s off. Soooo it leads me to believe had the bike ran normally I woulda gone to the finals So we both messed up but I messed up more Oh well that's racing!Least the dude I lost to won the final! I was soooo frustrated the bike was running so well and now it decided to throw a tantrum, had the bike ran fine I woulda won that one. That's what happens when you push the limits I guess. But i had a good night, i got to do 6 runs. I ran my fastest time ever and made it to the semi final on my tiny little bike. Weather was great also, it was hot for maybe and hour or two but the rest of the time it was perfect.
My 18sec pass, sounds like a long time but that's down from last year's 28sec.
youtu.be/z_Eaa2vX2oA
Final Race (whoops fixed link)
youtu.be/QdZtpbNaUAs
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gixxerjeff
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HadesOmega
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Whoops I fixed the link for the final race
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Well that was an interesting night. I escaped the South Bay where the smoke was everywhere
SF was lookin clear
When I got there it was pretty hot, like 90s but it was really windy and that is the theme for the night it was WINDY and a headwind it was! There were these guys driving on the track so we had to wait for them to clear out so we started kinda late.
Later they moved us into the shade for tech
Looks like a bomb went off back there
So I've pretty much changed everything on this bike every week I've been out here and this week is no exception. I traded my BAC2000 controller for a BAC4000 controller. It litterally can deliver double the current of the BAC2000 controller. That being said remember I complained that the bike was so slow off the line? That is definitely not the case this time. This controller pulls so hard right off the line the front comes up and will keep on pulling till about 60mph. I had only 1 ride on this new controller before I came out here so I pretty much had to learn a whole new bike. It turns out the regen launch that I have been doing won't work anymore. It just too violent the bike just wheelies right away. So after a few runs I switched to just twisting the throttle like normal and IT WORKED! It tamed the front a bit and my reaction times became better. I was hitting around 0.1s RTs!
That night we got the most practice runs I've ever run. Even though we started much later than last week there was literally less than half of last weeks attendance. So that's great for me I get a chance to learn how to ride this new setup!
All my runs were in the 18s that night despite the strong headwind. That extra torque just punches through the wind! The bike for whatever reason won't go past 60mph also but it pulls STRONG till it get's to 60mph. The new controller rocks! But it does make it harder to launch.
Sorry not that many pix this night. Here's what happened. I got a total of 9 passes that night! Crazy right!? 6 practice and 3 races. I would have had 10 passes but I changed some setting that made the bike die at the line so I missed on pass, so embarrassing Anyway after I figured out how to launch the bike as I mentioned above I was running consistent 18.1s. My reaction times were around 0.1s also, sometimes less. So I was pretty dialed in. The wind didn't really let up all night also good for me
So I race Eric in the SV650 for the first round. We had about the same amount of bikes as last week just there were helluva less cars out. I dialed an 18.0, I wasn't too confident of the dial just get I had 2 18.1 passes. So I ran 18.115 with an RT of .093! Pretty damn good so 18.1 is my dial afterall! Eric breaks out with dial of 12.40 he ran a 12.344 with a RT of .118. That was actually a pretty close race. If he didn't breakout it would have been really close. So I won.
2nd round I go up against Tom with the FZR. So I'm confident with my dial now so I go 18.1 and I run a 18.164 with a RT of .145. Not bad hundredths of a second from my dial. Tom brokeout also dialed 13.45s and ran a 13.332s with RT of .186. Actually very similar to the last race cept I did better this time.
3rd round SEMI FINALs! I race Doug with the Bonneville. He hella good. Also there were 3 of us. So we gave Tyler with the stretched Ninja the bye run. He said he didn't want to race me unless he had to haha. He didn't want to wait the 8 seconds. But if I got the bye run I would have taken the 2nd place trophy =P So here we go I race Doug. I've raced him a bunch of time and lost a buncha times. I dial in 18.1 again and run a 18.362 with a RT of .087! ACK what happened! For whatever reason I thought the bike got to 60mph unusually quick so I think I backed off just a tiny bit. Either that or the wind blew harder, or my battery was getting weak. As the races kept going I didn't have time to charge. I did a little wheelie also. Anyway coulda been anything but I ran almost .2s from my dial in least I didn't break out. Doug dials a 13.2 and runs a 13.315 with a RT of 0.065s! Crikeys! So he's about one tenth from his dial in and has a slightly better RT. DEFEATED! After all the math Doug beat me by .1698. It was a pretty good race, I'm pretty happy with the results I guess especially against Dough. Shame the bike ran a little slower.
Final round is Doug vs Tyler. If you thought my race was close dude these guys. Doug dials in 13.24 and runs a 13.219 with a RT of .021. He breaks out by .021s! Tyler dials 9.98s and runs 9.972 with a RT of 0.091s! He broke out by 0.008s! So Doug broke out more. Super close race double breakout.
So that's it Tyler takes 1st, Doug takes 2nd, and I took 3rd. They gave me a little trophy with a car on it. Was a great night glad I came out despite the heat we got so many runs. I was really only hot for about an hour or two after that is was great and windy. Pretty much the same as last week but a little warmer.
SF was lookin clear
When I got there it was pretty hot, like 90s but it was really windy and that is the theme for the night it was WINDY and a headwind it was! There were these guys driving on the track so we had to wait for them to clear out so we started kinda late.
Later they moved us into the shade for tech
Looks like a bomb went off back there
So I've pretty much changed everything on this bike every week I've been out here and this week is no exception. I traded my BAC2000 controller for a BAC4000 controller. It litterally can deliver double the current of the BAC2000 controller. That being said remember I complained that the bike was so slow off the line? That is definitely not the case this time. This controller pulls so hard right off the line the front comes up and will keep on pulling till about 60mph. I had only 1 ride on this new controller before I came out here so I pretty much had to learn a whole new bike. It turns out the regen launch that I have been doing won't work anymore. It just too violent the bike just wheelies right away. So after a few runs I switched to just twisting the throttle like normal and IT WORKED! It tamed the front a bit and my reaction times became better. I was hitting around 0.1s RTs!
That night we got the most practice runs I've ever run. Even though we started much later than last week there was literally less than half of last weeks attendance. So that's great for me I get a chance to learn how to ride this new setup!
All my runs were in the 18s that night despite the strong headwind. That extra torque just punches through the wind! The bike for whatever reason won't go past 60mph also but it pulls STRONG till it get's to 60mph. The new controller rocks! But it does make it harder to launch.
Sorry not that many pix this night. Here's what happened. I got a total of 9 passes that night! Crazy right!? 6 practice and 3 races. I would have had 10 passes but I changed some setting that made the bike die at the line so I missed on pass, so embarrassing
Anyway after I figured out how to launch the bike as I mentioned above I was running consistent 18.1s. My reaction times were around 0.1s also, sometimes less. So I was pretty dialed in. The wind didn't really let up all night also good for me So I race Eric in the SV650 for the first round. We had about the same amount of bikes as last week just there were helluva less cars out. I dialed an 18.0, I wasn't too confident of the dial just get I had 2 18.1 passes. So I ran 18.115 with an RT of .093! Pretty damn good so 18.1 is my dial afterall! Eric breaks out with dial of 12.40 he ran a 12.344 with a RT of .118. That was actually a pretty close race. If he didn't breakout it would have been really close. So I won.
2nd round I go up against Tom with the FZR. So I'm confident with my dial now so I go 18.1 and I run a 18.164 with a RT of .145. Not bad hundredths of a second from my dial. Tom brokeout also dialed 13.45s and ran a 13.332s with RT of .186. Actually very similar to the last race cept I did better this time.
3rd round SEMI FINALs! I race Doug with the Bonneville. He hella good. Also there were 3 of us. So we gave Tyler with the stretched Ninja the bye run. He said he didn't want to race me unless he had to haha. He didn't want to wait the 8 seconds. But if I got the bye run I would have taken the 2nd place trophy =P So here we go I race Doug. I've raced him a bunch of time and lost a buncha times. I dial in 18.1 again and run a 18.362 with a RT of .087! ACK what happened! For whatever reason I thought the bike got to 60mph unusually quick so I think I backed off just a tiny bit. Either that or the wind blew harder, or my battery was getting weak. As the races kept going I didn't have time to charge. I did a little wheelie also. Anyway coulda been anything but I ran almost .2s from my dial in least I didn't break out. Doug dials a 13.2 and runs a 13.315 with a RT of 0.065s! Crikeys! So he's about one tenth from his dial in and has a slightly better RT. DEFEATED! After all the math Doug beat me by .1698. It was a pretty good race, I'm pretty happy with the results I guess especially against Dough. Shame the bike ran a little slower.
Final round is Doug vs Tyler. If you thought my race was close dude these guys. Doug dials in 13.24 and runs a 13.219 with a RT of .021. He breaks out by .021s! Tyler dials 9.98s and runs 9.972 with a RT of 0.091s! He broke out by 0.008s! So Doug broke out more. Super close race double breakout.
So that's it Tyler takes 1st, Doug takes 2nd, and I took 3rd. They gave me a little trophy with a car on it. Was a great night glad I came out despite the heat we got so many runs. I was really only hot for about an hour or two after that is was great and windy. Pretty much the same as last week but a little warmer.