Drag Bike Racer CRASHES After Record Speed! 

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@@cycledrag As I said above. the bearings for the swing arm for the back wheel disintegrated. The wobble of death is very common with harleys, but harley wont tell you this because it would open a big door for those whom have died or been hurt from this. Bottom line, if you ride a harley that has been increased in power, get those bearings checked every 3 to 5k or if the backend feels a bit of a wiggle at the rear. If unchecked a rider can lose total control to the point it will flip the bike on it's side and it happens so fast you can not stop it at higher speeds like 50+. And this is riding normally,

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@@cycledrag For him I'm clueless. For my Kz I think the frame had a slight twist at the neck from a poor rake job.

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I tell these youngsters out there , that wear tenis shoes... If you go down with out boots,you are going to wish you would have listened to Greg. When he told me to wear boots ,because now I'm going to be laid up for months ...no work . No pay, and then therapy..just because I didn't listen to someone who has been riding for 50 plus years... Oh yeah I didn't mention you the fact you bike needs to be repaired ...all because I when I started to go down I put my foot down ,and my ankle wasn't strong enough to handle the weight . If I would have had boots on none of this would have happened..Next time I'm will listen to Greg...

I don’t know but when your doing that speed on heavy bikes like the Harley badger you must have some skills and big balls looking forward to your next post and when will you be coming to the uk my friend

@@gregorycatren3442 sorry to hear that my accident was due to a faulty Excelerator cable and in the UK we have what they call islands where you have to yield to the right but they’re quite built up in the centre I hate one of those at 80 miles an hour funny I’ve got these comments on here because yesterday I started taking all the broken parts off the bike it’s not that bad just a case Bolting bits back on hope you recover soon my friend stay safe

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Agree

+2 here........my old Kawie H2 triple required 2 steering dampers plus tapered roller steering head bearings and an overlength swingarm to get rid of its habit of doing the funky chicken at about 110 mph! Some spooky shit there.

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@@cycledrag maybe that Wobble a lot of people say the harley davidson have I'm clueless after going that fast and something to happen I'm still wondering what happened, when you find out let us all know thank you paint up Rubber Down stay safe and Salute.

I have a 2012 RG I regularly run over 120 mph

@@sinbad5534 He was doing 160+ in 8 seconds flat big difference. Also the problem is the engine Inertia and the motor mounts cause the wobble its a flawed design.

🤣🤣.. thank God you did.. scared riders such as yourself don't belong on two wheels..

You just compared a stock dyna to a 200+hp turbo drag bike.

@@jonnymac8925 And?

Please explain

@@vell4263 it makes it 10 times worse.

@@BROU-bb2uc thanks

@@vell4263 no problem

yup, and a soft sprung set of forks will cause it too. had the issue on mx bikes.

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@@cycledrag Resonance. The phenomenon of increased amplitude that occurs when the frequency of an applied periodic force is equal or close to a natural frequency of the system on which it acts.

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@@cycledrag i posted a link about the wobble issue and then is disappeared. I thought you may have deleted the link.

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@@cycledrag speed wobble at exactly the wrong moment letting off the gas, and the bike did the funky chicken and spat him off.

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@@cycledrag IMO, it was bad set up across the board. When I helped him off the road, there were wifey things scattered all over. So his suspension was probably set stiff for a passenger from the dealer. He had full running boards, Fairing and bags. Wen he hit the bump, air got under the bike and the suspension didn't react properly. Then with it being a brand new bike, the soft tail, the stock motor mounts and the fairing caused a low speed wobble that he couldn't recover. One of the running boards hit the ground breaking his traction, then when the tire came back down, It spit him over the high side. He had a helmet and landed off the shoulder in the weeds. So he was just scraped up. The bike didn't have a single part that didn't get messed up, It wasn't bent up or scattered, just scratched all to hell, all over. I'm surprised he was able to hold on as long as he did. It was pretty violent. At about 45mph. I ride a Suzuki GSL1000 it doesn't pull that kind of shit. That's why I say Harleys are dangerous, when compared to well behaved bikes. I'll say the same thing about rockets. I had a bike that liked to do the tank slapper, not for me thanks.

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@@cycledrag like the other guy said, rear wheelbearing on the belt side of Harleys tends to go bad, maybe because its under constant pressure from the belt, and that belt likes to bounce and shake under load rather violentley, eats the bearings next to the belt pulley. Hell it even eats the stationary tensioner pulley bearings now that I think about it, if you have one like my Buell. Unless he is running a chain, in which case on a Harely he probably has no rubber cushion. I ran a Performance Machine aftermarket wheel with no cushion on GSXR that wore the bearing on the sproket side, especially 6in extended. On a v-twin thats much worse. All v-twins eat chains and sprokets, and wheel bearings if there is no cushion, which there is not. I had an Aprilia that did the same except it destroyed the rubber cushions, while it ate chains and sprokets, but the bearings seemed ok over time. You can see the grease start to leak out past the blue or red seals, thats how you know its starting to go, but I'm sure you know that. Hey, you asked. LOL.

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@@cycledrag sometimes riders get excited and grab too much front brake which causes immediate weight bias on these well tuned bikes which will cause head shake ..when this occurs theirs no where else to go gravity takes hold if you can't ride it out..it happened to one of my teams riders

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I’m not sure, I fixed mine with a steering damper but I’m sure he has one of them .

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Going that fast the rotor can get so hot it will sometimes warp and cause it to wobble...

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Working towards that. I mostly work by myself. Working toward that goal though. Thanks for watching. What do you think went wrong ?

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@@cycledrag Head stock bearing collapse for the Harley after the wheelie would be my guess. Mine was rough road surface.

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@@cycledrag Difficult to say @ those speeds it's shoot Crap ..! Glad it wasn't Serious ..👍

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