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Well I have a good time but, I was slightly disappointed with the whole thing. Yesterday, I went to a low key drag race in Butler NY, 1/8 mile strip. It was hosted by the Iron Horse MC club. It was a low key event and if you lost your race you were out of the heat. I only got to run the strip two time, first time was for "time trials" and they didnt even have a clock. 
Also, I was at a big disadvantage in my class because it was "Foreign Modified/1000cc & Up". In my class were two v-max, a Suzuki V-King, Kawasaki ZX-14, '87 Yamaha FZR, a early gen Honda 900RR, my XS11 F, and another guy on his '81 XS11 Special. 
So... I raced the other XS for my time trial and won but, he got really lose on take off an almost dumped it. He got out of his lane and into the grass and had to put a foot down. He wrenched his knee and was out before we even started. The attached video (sorry for the crappy res...pisses me off) shows the other XS on take off getting into the dirt, you can even hear the anouncer say "whoa whoa whoa!". Once it was time to race I was up against the FZR... as you can imagine, that went down like a loud raunchy fart in church... He had me by about 3 lengths at the finish...
The guy on the Kawasaki ZX-14 and I were talkin and he was kicking him self for not bringing his XS11. He said he would bring it next year, and another guy I was talkin with had one too. Im going to try to get some other central NY XS members to show up next year and maybe we can have a mini XS rally/drag get2gether thing. I will put the pressure on my Dad to bring his, that will add one more XS to the race... I will make a posting next year to let everyone know ahead'a time who's interested. It would be nice to get 5 or 6 XS11's together to go and race...maybe they will let us have out own class! 900cc and up, pre 1985.
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FZR that beat me...
Also, I was at a big disadvantage in my class because it was "Foreign Modified/1000cc & Up". In my class were two v-max, a Suzuki V-King, Kawasaki ZX-14, '87 Yamaha FZR, a early gen Honda 900RR, my XS11 F, and another guy on his '81 XS11 Special. So... I raced the other XS for my time trial and won but, he got really lose on take off an almost dumped it. He got out of his lane and into the grass and had to put a foot down. He wrenched his knee and was out before we even started. The attached video (sorry for the crappy res...pisses me off) shows the other XS on take off getting into the dirt, you can even hear the anouncer say "whoa whoa whoa!". Once it was time to race I was up against the FZR... as you can imagine, that went down like a loud raunchy fart in church... He had me by about 3 lengths at the finish... The guy on the Kawasaki ZX-14 and I were talkin and he was kicking him self for not bringing his XS11. He said he would bring it next year, and another guy I was talkin with had one too. Im going to try to get some other central NY XS members to show up next year and maybe we can have a mini XS rally/drag get2gether thing. I will put the pressure on my Dad to bring his, that will add one more XS to the race... I will make a posting next year to let everyone know ahead'a time who's interested. It would be nice to get 5 or 6 XS11's together to go and race...maybe they will let us have out own class! 900cc and up, pre 1985.
Click Vid...
FZR that beat me...
The ID and OD are just right to fit under the spring and each is 1mm thick. Makes perfect spacers. If you look, I think you will find them in that F model you got from me.
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