TOP FUEL MOTORCYCLE GONE WRONG! 

Line up slightly right - LOL til they figure whats pulling it left !!!!

There's only two rules that really matter in drag racing. 1- Don't leave early 2- Done cross the center line Tough deal for those guys figuring out why the bike won't go straight, but you just can't have vehicles that won't go straight

and really happy for Dennis' team w/ what Tood and Mitch are doing, that's great to see them doing well!

Just found this great channel,,,,,,,,,, will be here every time. I love it! When I raced in the 70's ON a bye run we held lane or DQ. Times change,,, btw I loved all the ones that took the flag! Mitch did pill one out,,,,,, great skills! TY

Top coverage,as usual- you’re a great host,super knowledgeable and enthusiastic,thanks for this upload brother! I usually enjoy watching with a beer and a spliff,btw!🤣🤣

Mitch 'it ain't over 'til it's over' Brown, awesome. This event was a credit to everyone involved; Thank you.

spot on...great camera work and thanks to Jack, loads of info..these guys are THE heroes of the 1/4 mile, bigger balls than big balls...

Your the man Jack.. great filming and great short interviews. Love to see these top fuel bikes. Glad to see spiderman. Keep up your great work. Regards.

Huge Spider-Man fan get well Mr. McBride we need ya back and great show Cycle Drag love Topfuel bikes

You do a great job with this and calling these races Jack! Love the channel! From Alabama!

Love watching Spiderman race and the work on that KZ of yours was awesome. Get well Spiderman, miss swing you out on the track hope to see you set some records soon.

My man Jack back with some more great bike coverage

What do I eat and drink, O'l Lady and Jack Daniel's. 😂

11:07 Great Shot of a run, cool to see someone passionate enough to make it from so far away.

Sunday is my only day off from work and I love spending my morning drinking coffee and watching Cycle Drag. Great way to ease into the day.

Brilliant video Jack - well done !

I agree with Dan W to a degree, it appears when it goes into tire shake it seems the slick rides up on its right side. I would make a slick change . Maybe a slower reel on the tape may show if the suspension is twisting alot, but you can see the left side of the tire never peaks.

Why don't you guys come together and help Chris turn his bike to get into the 5 second zone that would be glory to him at his age you think

I like coffee while watching cycle drag a cup of go go juice!

Mitch never quit and the driver won this one! 😀🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍

Props to the Star Spangled Banner soul brother!!!

Great video though,,,, keep em coming

Judging from the contact patch on Vantine's bike during that DQ run, it's twisting the rear suspension and putting more weight on the right side of the tire at the big end of the track, and pushing the bike left. Maybe there's a broken strut that's not showing up until it's under power? Just a thought...

the head nod between riders before burnout is awesome!

Cycledrag rocks... Top respect from Belfast Northern Ireland.. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

In 89, during a pause at the Gatornats, I went to Garlits museum, when you walked in, looking at you was one of Sam Wills Top Fuel bikes. I knew I'd like it there.

If ya build it straight, it goes straight.

All good Jack. Love the patriotism every one was sharing.

This guys a born announcer and does one helluva job considering he’s a one man band. I watch and learn a ton because of his work and research. Love the coverage but, to be honest, I probably wouldn’t have continued watching if not for his enthusiasm for what he does. Don’t listen to the few haters 🤨, you keep doing what your doing and your gonna be a huge success and I’ll be able to say I knew you when 😉🏁

Miss my years with Ray Price Harley.

It looked like Dave felt the bike pulling within 100' and he started to counter act by leaning right almost instantly but the inertia force of the bike was just pulling left hard regardless ! It also looked like the bike jumped hard left at the 100' mark !

I speak under correction, Dave is an awesome person and experienced driver. If one watches Larry too once the bike goes South you go with it.

Thanks for doing what you do ! Digging It

These machines are not just monster speed they are beautiful art. Love it

Just love cycledrag and right now I'm sipping Jack Daniels honey, thanks for great entertainment :)

In ref to the rules, if you cross the center line it should be a DQ, period. I'm not sure I would let it run, after doing it twice, it's a danger to the person he races or to himself.

Still keep hoping to see something on Russ Collins bikes and exploits.

Way to much power and weight to power over....I know...it's happend to me a few times...I did see something metal flying off when he launches... also he was pointing a little left... after seeing the other guys doing it on the oth r runs...I woulda pointed a fraction right...nice job keeping it upright....

Great video. Great job of commentating, so far. At 8:00 mark, I would guess, frame flexing, for some reason, or uneven traction, side to side, on rear tire, bad tire, or burnout, front, or rear tire not on centerline. I hope the figure out what it actually is. Very interesting to know. At 11:01, I saw a steering damper on a bike, on next run. A simple possibility there, also. On the rules for drifting over the center line, if a bike has shown a tendency to drift the same direction, more than once, maybe twice, in the same event, it presents a strong risk to its rider and to his opponent, in any future side by side runs. Even in a single bike run it points to strong risk in a future side by side run. Rule, or no rule, I can understand the DQ, after several times of drifting like that. I wouldn't want to race him.

the alignment track is off. rear wheel is pointed left.

I’m watching as always from Japan!👍🏾🧔🏾‍♂️⛩🗼🎌Go‼️CycleDrag!! 🏍💨🏁

Watching from Phnom Penh Cambodia love the nitro cycles

His left Teste was heavier than his right one.......Juuuuuuuuuuuuuust Sayin!

Gota love it Japan rider on a Harley !!

These guys are real pros they know step one of spectacular anything is adding nitro into your fuel tank start and hold on for your 50/50 shot of boom or holy sh$?t fast

You got a good little hustle going on here.

I think his back wheel alignment is wrong my brother have a funny bike that would do that we had to point it towards the chain just the cone hair and that helped the bike go straight old chassis maybe

Great coverage, I enjoyed it. This is just a guess: Regarding crossing over into the left lane, it would have been helpful if the camera had been located up in the air, perhaps 10 to 15 feet above the track surface, in a fixed position pointing straight down the track from directly behind the racer's staging position, and not turning to follow the racer. Make it follow as closely as possible as though he had a bullseye on his back. Also, use the slow motion setting if one is available. I think the swingarm is flexing/twisting ever so slightly to start the process. Noting the chain pulls entirely on the right side, producing a cantilever effect on the swingarm. Viewed from above, the bending allows the rear tire to move toward the 11o'clock position, i.e. the front of the bike moves slightly to the right because the rear wheel has turned to the left. As the rider senses this he makes a move to counter/correct for the bending, etc. and by the time he does that the rear wheel is really chewing the track for traction, and staying on the throttle causes it to continue toward the left lane with little correction remaining for the rider to make before he's already in the wrong lane. I don't know that it would have been any clearer to see what's happening, but I truly think an overhead camera pointing in a fixed direction so everything can be seen with the same fixed eye might reveal the cause. Whatever it is likely happens within the first one or two tenths of a second, i.e. the moment the swingarm is being slammed from a no load condition. Incidentally, has the same problem ever occurred when he ran in the left lane, and have other racers experienced this problem? Best wishes, and I hope this helps.

In ref. to Dave Vantines situation. These rules were originally designed for side by side racing and should be modified for single lane passes or by runs. Jay seems to have lost touch with the spirit of the rules and needs to reevaluate this rule for sure.

im thinking frame flex......left hand drive turns the rear tire right, making you go left

Dude singing the Anthem, Thank you. God bless you and your family, including Jack!

These machines are amazing

Keep the videos coming top knotch stuff

GREAT INTERVIEW at 16 minutes with the gal heaping praise on her competitors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As it should be!!!!!!!!!!

THE REAR WHEEL SEEMED TO WIGGLE JUST BEFORE HE HOOKED LEFT

The gyroscope effect is probably causing the bike to cross the lanes. In that case, the driver is doing something to cause it.

I kinda like the rule the way it is bcuz it gives more meaning to a solo run and forces the teams to be more strategic when deciding to make the solo pass or not. I think every run down the track in a competition should mean something.

Man Mitch sure did ride that beast out 🍺🍺

Torque steer is what the slow motion video shows when the bike leaves it 60 straight because of strong left side wheelie bar wheel contact but once it gets up on the tire the input from the wheelie bar goes away because of diminishing Torque leverage over the tire so tire speed is rapidly increasing and so is tire growth thus unloading the wheelie bar and now the front wheel has a say in the matter so with the Torque steer that is being applied the chassis is flexing thus driving the bike left ..if it wheelies the whole length of the track it would go straight...... Larry Spiderman Mcbride has always been my favorite CH3² kind of a home town heroe but I like all bikes the ones that go straight the ones that only turn left the ones that jump and definitely the ones that drive edges of the tires

Hi Guys quick observation without knowing the set up; have a look at the wheelie bar wheels, it appears that the left wheel is loading up before the right! This could be a number of things if engine toque is doing this and all other things are equal it could be adjusted to counter it. But it also could be as simple as the left wheelie wheel is not running as freely as the right creating drag, pulling the bike left. I’m sure it is sorted by now.

I never want to see a team put in so much time, money & sweat & then to have an issue at the track. This must be a DQ just for the safety of the riders. What's scary is that if he was in the Left Lane, he'd be aiming for the wall. DQ while you still have a rider & bike, race another day.

Jack, you don't get near the credit you should for Bike coverage. Love the content brother!

I spent my teen years riding my 10 speed up and down the bike path in Southern California when that place was still affordable to live in and 10 speeds were still in fashion. Sometimes while riding with no hands sitting straight up the bike would seem to make up it's own mind which directions we were going. It did the same little wiggle that Vantine's bike did and to me it felt like if I tried to force a turn it would flip.

Great job Jack.

anthem without kneeling . very good

A shot of Jack Daniels after the big boom🤯

Rule book is there for a reason. Cross the line, DQ.

Jack thanks for the hard work hope you can come back to the UK next year

FORMERLY KNOWN AS WELL HOW YOU DOIN HERE. Good show Jack, thanks.

I'd be focusing my attention to the wheelie bar on his bike hooking to the left. Make sure it's absolutely square to the rear suspension. It looks to me in slow motion the bike is fighting and rocking on the wheelie bar more then it should . Once he gets out of the power and the wheelie bar is up he's able to straiten it out a lot more.

Love Larry Mcbride such a stunning demeanor, always kind, I hope he is fully restored in health.

E- bike world record holder. 235 mph 4.3 second quarter mile.. No noise..

I know I used to race at Willowbank Queensland Australia I was told to change my forks in doing so we put the new set in but we didn't set it properly that way it was always pulling to one side after resetting the front forks and adjusting them on the triple tree it now run straight and that is on a super Blackbird which done 223 at 10.2.

These guys are all on the absolute cutting edge of going this fast on a motorcycle with the biggest set of nuts you’ve ever seen in your life I mean they can’t carry these things on airplanes that guy in the video is basically on a motorcycle 200+ miles an hour and a quarter mile with 2 3 Liter bottles between his legs impressive i’ve heard now in 2022 they’ve actually got a surgery where you can have them on a quick detach system so that’s gonna give them a solid 10or 15 miles an hour 45 lb weight deduction

crossing center line...front wheel of bike is on a slight lean, forks twisted or something..so will always pull left or right..I have three bikes that flip me off on corners because they were damaged beforehand in accident and the forks were ever so slightly bend

Rear wheel steering! Rear wheel must be parallel to the left? Right side sprocket pulls wheel to the left (steering).

I knew a guy who has a cnc shop from Elkhart Ks who had a top fule drag bike. It was red with no stickers, it wasn't a sponsored bike but I rode it a block in idle. I was scared shitless of that thing. But I've always wondered if he ever made anything of that bike.

That’s so ironic!! The “ Man Cup” has a man cream covering it!!

Set axle axle 1/8th back on right side to compensate drive pull

I know for a fact people think this guy is a clown but I’m sure he knows how they feel and chooses to confidently stride as himself, love it!

That bike really needs to be sorted. Copping a DQ is a long way from seeing a worst possible outcome in the final

Check rear wheel bearing assembly. Wear/spacer/

Definitely should no lose on a bye run. Just lose lane choice. Tough for DV and the fans.

We love and miss you SPIDER MAN. Hurry back

I think they need to check the rear wheel alignment. That can make the bike go left. Also, a bent frame can do it too.

If you don't even need to make the buy run but they disqualify you if you mess up when you do? That seems kind of stupid because it incentivizes the guys not to run so the fans get less of a show.

Check the axle for wear in the frame I feel like the wheel's tilted a slight bit I use to race these bikes and worked with them for years

Gotta tell ya, haven't been with Vantine in a very long time. Since last Adel visit. showing the bikes helps memake it thru the year Thanks! Next year 5.69 forDave!

First, I'm not into motorcycle drag racing. Around the 23:40 mark on your video when he took off, note that his bike when on to the left wheely bar. That tells me his leftward ride was mechanical. Sorry if I don't know the exact reason. Looking at where he launched from, I wonder if the bike would drift right if he had launched from the center of the black line instead of slightly on the right side. It is possible the right side of his tire was gripping or slipping compaired to the left and center of his tire. That could have caused the leftward drift. I really am guessing on that.

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pulling to the side could be so many things from the forks to the rear swingarm.

It's funny to see how old most of these competitors are.

Bye runs exist because there is an odd number of competitors in a given round, otherwise everyone races an opponent. Therefore I argue that all rules for a normal run should apply to bye runs which should require a timed pass be completed from the tree to end of the track no matter what ET and speed is achieved. It isn't fair to the other competitors when one competitor is not required to at least heat cycle their equipment during a bye run and avoid all wear and tear on the bye run equipment. Besides, if you can't make a complete bye run then you would not have been able to make a normal run against a competitor and you would have lost that round anyway. Just like crossing the center line should be a disqualifier whether someone is in the other lane or not. Sorry, but if your equipment cannot run safely down the track, you shouldn't be allowed to race until you find and fix the problem. It isn't fair to endanger a competitor in the other lane because something is wrong with your equipment, no matter what you are racing.

He was slightly leaning toward the left side of the bike "More weight was to the left side of the bick so it pulled it to the left"

Dave has an incredible bike. I do not believe his rear is aligned as it pulls left immediately and repeatedly. The left is longer on the swing arm

23:50, yeah, back stepped out slightly to right,thus he veered left.

11:13 you ready? you ready? let's go! That's how you do it!

On film it looks like the rider was leaning right but leaning the bike left

I heard when on a square tyre you need to lean the opposite way you want to go. Never ridden one myself though

Awesome like cylone dragster how is the weather