Both the Warrior and V-Max are some of the fastest production bikes around.

Are you sure the Yamaha guys were racing? Did they know you were beside them and were racing them?

I don't think so!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You sure you were on an HD?????

Something ain't right!!!!!! Cant imagine any bagger doing that, especially an HD.

 

Its simple, stock there is no possible way a HD Bagger would even hold a stick to either of these machines.

In modified form it would still be tough unless these guys can't ride. Unless they were on V-max or Warrior snowmobiles, oh, the yamahas would still win.

 

LMAO....There is not even a slight chance that a SG would even come close to touching that V-Max...especially in a 1/4 mile and a roll-on at that. Was a good dream Paw...but time to wake up!! Are you sure the other rider was even on his bike yet when you took off!!!!

 

Sorry if the story sounds off to some, I never said I was stock, and as I said the V-Max did pull me pretty good but only after we were pegged at 120, through 3 gears and into 4th I stayed ahead of him, I thought that was pretty impressive.

Now as for the Warrior, not even close, I totally smoked him through all 6 gears. my dyno charts are posted in the dyno section for baggers, and that's the chart before Friday we made a few more changes and picked up a few more ponies.

I'm not asking anyone to believe the story, but it can be verified very easy. There's lots of South Louisiana people on the forum, and I'm not very hard to reach

 

https://www.hdforums.com/upfiles/201...E34AA5620E.jpg
Harleypaw's dyno sheet in the link above.
Harleypaw, I too used to own a Warrior. With those numbers you would have dusted me too. Looks like a nice build you have there. Congrats on the win.

 

I just looked at the dyno, that is very similar to the power #'s my bike is putting out.

Now I know for a fact the v-max story is B.S...........

That is nowhere near enough power to get a bagger to hang in there with a v-max until over 100 mph unless the v-max was ridden by the worst rider in the universe.

~John

 

By the way, that is a nice looking dyno sheet. With the nice smooth curves that bike has to be fun to ride.

~John

 

Hahahahahahaha, fast cruisers maybe but nowhere near a stock 600 sportbike.

 

Excellent job Richard....................put that rice crap in it's place.

Everyone can call your story BS, but none of them were there......I believe it can happen. Any bike can beat any other bike on any given day, riders make a big difference...........and the size of their *****.

Steve

 

HarleyPaw,

Like I said before, I was not there and I would never say it can't happen. It's just hard to believe. Having been an extreme rider of sport bikes since I was in my late teens I have ran some of the most modified Harley (not baggers) in this area. This was most of the time on a damn near stock Honda cbr600f3. I would smoke these guys then talk with them afterwards about their motor builds. Some had thousands invested in thier motors. I could never understand why they would want to run a Jap bike.

If I were to do a motorbuild on my HDI would certainly ask either Bryan TTM or someone like yourself for advice on engine builds. But I would not compare how fast my bike is to a Jap bike. I would want to run another HD even a another bagger to see how much I really gained. Apples to apples. Then I would really know how much faster my bike is.

With that said I see a real trend in the hotrod bagger in this area. One thing people need to understand is these bikes were never designed to be a performance machine. They were designed to be cruisers, that's why I bought one. I spent a lot of time cheating death on my rockets. Croch rockets are designed around performance and for racing. The first time I took my SG up to about 100 in felt very unstable, heavy in corners, even unstable in straight aways. Not the bike I would chose to drag with. The bike wobbles at high speed, and let me tell you having been down on the track do to a high speed wobble (also known as head shake or tank slapper), this is not a desirable situation.

The frame design on a HD is almost all wrong for a drag bike (except for their designed drag bike). A rubber mounted motor causes to much resonation in the frame. The swing arm which has rubber bushings causes the swing arm to move opposite of the frame. I just caution anyone who turns these bikes in drag bikes. I've seen this happen on the track, it's very ugly to watch sometimes. If you want a drag bike I think a bagger is the wrong choice, you can always make the motor capable, but if the bike is not then there wil be problems. Congrats on your win, Merry Christmas, and ride safe my friend.