I ran the 1/4 on my 500...

[Poo-tee-weet]

Well me and some friends went out last night to a nice, deserted road and marked the lines for a quarter mile. I reset the gas odemeter on my bike and went 400 meters which is basically a 1/4 mile...give or take about 15~ meters because of the innacturate way of measurement, but it works .

I had my friends stay at the the end with the van and stop watch and i went to the starting line. They flashed highbeams 3 times and on the third flash they start the stopwatch. So i nailed it and came out wiiithhhhhhb......14.2! I figure since real tracks dont put the reaction time into the quatermile time that my time is closer to 13.9 or 14 flat, which is ok. I did 4 passes and my first pass was still fasted. Hit neutral on one pass which sucked and the bike was heating up fast even though it was only like 10 celcius out. I think i can get atleast .5 lower with a better launch.

Question on launching, obviously with this bike i dont have to worry very much about wheelies, but when i launch, should i rev the engine up into the power band, so around 8-9k, and then quickly but fluently let out the clutch? I think thats how you do it but im not sure.....Anyways the way i was doing it last night i only revved it to aobut 4k and i felt the lauches were a little slow.

Now call me a squid

EDIT: HOLY SHIT....i just got back from practicing launching, and revving it into the powerband is obviously the way to go. I revved it up to 10k and let the clutch out smoothly while pinning the throttle and using the clutch to keep my revs at about 10k. And what did i do? I FUCKIN WHEELIED...atleast 1 foot maybe 2 feet off the ground, but it was definatly off...my first wheelie and im proud. I was kinda surprised afterwards because i reacted fairly good when it came up, i just calmly pulled in the clutch and shut the throttle....i was grinning for like 20min. I went straight to a friends house and told him what i did

[lawson]

hes not even shitting you he seriously did come straight home and tell me then he showed me. pretty neat for a 500 and his size. bike doing it all on itsown he isnt even bouncing it or anything. good work miles u squid i kid i kid. keep practicing.

[Spike]

That's cool man, although I don't know how accurate your methods of timing are. With a good launch you should be able to run it to low 13's... at least as far as all the reading I've done would suggest...

[Poo-tee-weet]

Yea the method we have to get our times in definatly pretty inaccurate, ive been thinking of a couple ways to improve it though, i also wouldent mind buying one of those rolling things that counts meters to measure it then maybe a bottle of spraypaint to mark the spots...obviously not a big white line, cause im not THAT dumb, but a little spray on a tree beside it would be fairly inconspicuous. Fun stuff

[kc5vea]

yeah wheelies are fun the best way i can do them on my ninja is to get going about 10 miles an hour rev pull in the clutch and rev it to about 8 and alil bit and hold on cause you let the clutch out right its going to pop right up. IF you find the balance point you can keep it up there too. Im getting to where i can ride them about 20 feet now. be careful on the landings i racked the shit out of myself by landing on the gas tank. Still alil sore haha. Good luck and have fun

[Jordini]

I rode my bike a few times down the quarter mile track at the las vegas motor speedway. my best time was 13.89sec. i was only revving to about 5 thousand on the launch. ill have to try harder. ive been trying to wheelie too, so ill try your method.

[TheHub02ss]

I took mine to the track and ran a 13.6 @ 98

[badbowtie]

i have done a few wheelies on mine.getting up to about 40 km/h the npulling in clutch until i slow to about 30 then rev to about 7500 and let the clutch out.i reved to 9000 once and it felt like the bike was going to loop on me not a fun feeling.