Rick Brett at Valdosta Man Cup 2017 Riding (Badly) Butch Millions 1972 H2
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2024
- After fitting a Ralf Shipmann clutch to the H2 we can finally put some power on the track, the problem is that 120BHP H.P. In a almost stock chassis makes the bike want to come up, so a quick lift in first gear, change to second, another little lift, change to third and by then we are done with wheelies right? . . . . WRONG!
Nice run, poppin wheelies in 2nd and 3rd? Good one, thx for sharing!
Well H2s are notoriously hard to launch, I've found you get better balance with two feet down. Maybe better results with a steady throttle at the tree versus blipping it. I drag race a bit but it has been at least 20 years since launching a two strokes...many props for competing.
They are hard to Launch. Everything I rode after that was easier to Launch. It took practice out on country roads to get your nerve up a little at a time before you were confident enough to let it rip. In 1972 my blue H2 against his identical Blue 72. I raced continually against the NHRA national record holder in the street stock class. His name was Pete Grassili. He was referred to as Pistol Pete because of this extraordinary reaction time and the fact that he was going to beat you To the top of first gear every time. The record. Was 11.81. The first couple of weeks I was stuck around 12.3 or 12.2. That is I was until Pete dropped by at introduced himself and gave me pointers on riding position, rear tire pressures and maximizing aggressiveness at the start by flipping your finger off the end of the clutch lever and letting the power slam home. I was immediately doing runs of 12.1 at creeping toward 12 flat. I managed 2 11.98s out of dozens of runs but they never happened at the right time to beat him heads up. But he was almost always below 12 seconds. Actually, when I first started racing against him the record was not held by him and it was 11:9's.. But I was there at National Trail Raceway the morning he rolled the bike off the trailer as soon as the track opened and get his 11.81 and backed it up an hour later with an 11.9 something. I only actually, when I first started racing against him the record was not held by him and it was 11:9's.. But I was there at National Trail Raceway the morning he rolled the bike off the trailer as soon as the track opened and get his 11.81 and backed it up an hour later within 11.9 something. I only beat him twice. Once he redlighted and the other time on a really hot day I had a better time than him in the semi-final gave me Lane choice in the final. And that particular day one lane was obviously faster than the other. "Pistol Pete" Grassilli died July 25th, 2018. Yes, just weeks ago. So, if anyone can help me document Tony Nicosia's AHRA records or Pistol Pete's NHRA records I can use them for several pages on Wikipedia that mention the Mach IV's. at him twice. Once he redlighted and the other time on a really hot day I had a better time than him in the semi-final and that gave me Lane choice in the final. Lane choice often matters. "Pistol Pete" Grassilli died July 25th, 2018. Yes, just weeks ago. So, if anyone can help me document Tony Nicosia's AHRA records or Pistol Pete's NHRA records I can use that for several pages on Wikipedia that mention the Mach IV's.
Rick,
What was the time?
Would love to know that as well... Rick? Do you still remember? 😇
Jesese Rick. Just ask Tony. You're selling a poster of Tony launching his stock h2. Does his rider position look anything like yours? Look at all the photos. Where do you see his upper body? You see it just above the gas tank with his helmet just above.instruments. Work with rear tire pressure until you get some wheel spin. If you have to short shit to keep it from biting too hard you don't have enough pressure in the back tire. Clearly, you can see how slow the bike was in the first hundred feet because of the short shiting you thought you had to do. Don't sit back on these bikes. Like you said it's a stock chassis. Put your crotch up against the gas tank and your face about 3 in above the tach. Stay forward on the bike all the way through the Run. It's your body weight that's going to hold the pride n down. You want to make it try to lift your body weight, not just the weight of the bike with the forks at the top of their travel. I don't know if you're using the clutch lever, but if you are Don't. Put upward pressure on the shifter then flick your throttle hand off and on quick as you can and it will shift. When you're off the power long enough to pull the clutch there is enough time for weight to travel back to front compressing them a little and then when you go back to the power front forks unload and you're headed for Wheelieville. A front and rear shocks then do the opposite thing. When you rotate power off the nose goes down and the rear shocks up. Then when you're back on the throttle the front shocks come back up and the rear shocks go down and you've created a pivot point for the wheelie.
That's one of the reasons inexperienced riders got caught out by wheelies on these bikes from the beginning. They were opening the throttle while sitting in an upright position. It would scare them and they'd blame the bike. That's how the whole nonsense about widowmaker weak flexing frames came from. Plus, anytime you slammed the throttle open on one like you did on your Honda 350 or maybe a BSA, you got what you deserved. Again the body weight on the rear shocks makes the back wheel a pivot point for the front to rotate on, and they didn't really set the engine far enough forward to start with. That's a concept they finally got right with the Z1.
All that blipping the throttle at the start line is just going to make it harder to feel the beat of the tree. You're never going to sync a blip with the green light. Pick an RMP, hold it there, hold the clutch with your index finger, get in the rhythm of the tree, slip your finger off the end of the clutch lever at the same time you let her rip. What happens then is going to a result from how you are on the bike and your back tire grip. Too little and you smoke it, too much and you have to bail on the throttle when it wheelies. Finding the sweet spot to get you down the first 50 or 100 feet done mainly with tire pressure. Once you get to a hundred feet the race should be over. A monkey could be trained to shift it and point it. You live out in the country. I'd have thought you had the start down cold.