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It's totally KILLING me here not to start with the wise-cracks, but......

first you need to lower the bike to get any good times out of it. You're options are plenty, but at a minimum, you need to buy a "strap" to compress the front forks and lower the CG. It'll launch much better. SchnitzRacing has them. (around $23)

Lowering the back helps too, Muzzy's and Spencercycle sell 3 hole dogbones for the rear shock, or you can get ADJUSTABLE ones from Kennedy machine, or I think Doug at Spencer cycle has those too. ($40 / $100, roughly)


you'd benefit a lot, and save your clutches by having a -1T front sprocket. ($25)

DO NOT, and we'll all tell you this and it can't be said enough, DO NOT make multiple consecutive passes down the strip without letting the clutches cool down first. This can be an expensive lesson! The steel plates can warp easily from repeated drag racing, clutch slipping starts. Either wait 15-35.5 minutes between runs, or do things to help it cool. ie. Tip bike to right, when running, with clutch lever in to get more oil tipped over into the clutch pack. (just 5-10 seconds should be enough,...you don't want to starve the oil pump either)

Some folks squirt oil on the clutch pack after a run to help them cool down.


eventually you'll want a pipe so that you can take it to redline and still have good power. Stocker falls off power quite a bit before redline so you'd have to short shift a stock piped bike to get the best run.

Consider running 10 2.0mm steel clutch plates and 11 fibers instead of the 11/12 stock setup. (were 2002's still that way???) Thicker steels don't warp as easily, and you run one less steel plate and one less fiber plate to keep the proper stack height.

Practice, practice, practice.

Open a revolving account at either SchnitzRacing, or RonAyers for clutch packs.

Ask SWFT about the "Snap and Slide". :-D He loves it when people ask him to describe it!!

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