ASTONISHING SPEED BY SUPER STREET BIKES AT FIM-E SANTA POD EUROPEAN DRAG RACING FINALS! TURBO POWER!

Enjoy an astonishing street tire motorcycle drag racing performance by Turbo Suzuki HAYABUSAS and Kawasaki ZX-12rs as they hit top speed on England’s legendary Santa Pod Drag Strip at the FIA FIM European Drag Racing Finals. This motorbike drag racing class known as Super Street Bike, similar to Pro Street Motorcycle in the U.S., breaks right through the 200 mph mark on a good pass without the use of a wheelie bar or slick, simply a radial Street tire, usually a Shinko. We talk about why the ZX12 is more popular than the ZX-14r in Europe. Enjoy this entire opening round of qualifying as we see which fearless drag bike racer will strike first in these windy conditions. Entered in this race is Steve Venables on the DME turbo Busa, Daniel Lencses, Gary Bowe, Graham Balchin, Stephen Mead, Mogens Lund, Rick Stubbins, Mark Hope, Graham Dance, Yannick Richard, Alex Hope, Mark Dainty, Margot Schmidt, Knut Moeller, Clemens Walleitt, Eric Gruber and Dave Thomas. We also ask if you would ever try this?
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[@427Musclecar]

Really appreciate the effort you put in to these videos! You should be a track announcer as well.

[@cycledrag]

Thanks bud. I grew up a track announcer

[@user-gt2lh2ec9e]

Wow, couple of nice bikes! John P.

[@quest2outdoors]

I always enjoy watching thank you:-) peace

[@raynic1173]

Nice production Jack.

[@prostreetdino7946]

Always love your videos!! Geez why are you not jet lagged from hitting these events all around the world lol, keep up the great work, love the grudge and street type bikes/ Harley’s as well

[@rudebwoy6003]

Yo cycledrag I like what you doing, you not only covering the state but also around the world. This makes me wonna go racing again. I appreciate you and thank you. SSB/PRO 718

[@cycledrag]

Thank you!

[@andykjohnsonjohnson7622]

Great video ' J ' 👍😉👍

[@Big.Ron1]

All I want for Christmas is a Pro Fuel Harley and spares. So yes, I would ride these. I have been partial to Kawi's for metric bikes. Having said that I currently ride a KTM when not on my Harley. Be safe.

[@Real_Ryderz]

Yes mate

[@AdamKyleAnderson]

Welcome to London ? London is 70 miles from Santa Pod.

[@Bobby-fj8mk]

4:50 faster than 200mph - unbelievable.

[@baileyschneider7383]

The first bike still had water on tire from not rolling out of the burnout

[@Motoinc]

Why are you not showing more in depht technical videos? Like closeup videos cylinders, cams, materials and what bores ETC ETC then you channel would be COMPLETE! Cheers from Sweden

[@cycledrag]

I can certainly work some of that stuff in for you. Please search this channel and the Cycledrag.com FB page and you will see some tech features from the past. We toured many shops. Bob Carpenter's got pretty technical

[@Motoinc]

@@cycledrag thank you for your VERY fast reaplay! Iam looking forward to it And in my post it should be channel not cancel haha , I changed it

[@sahhull]

I used to work with Chris Hope.

[@mcfast52]

I would love to try one, but I am getting a little too old, any way you would have to start with slower bikes and build up to faster bikes like that, but from what I can see it should be too hard they do not even control the clutch just gas and go, do a mild tune that first and build up from there.

[@rekabrekab-zs8lv]

Hahahahaha.... How little you know.

[@exothermal.sprocket]

From what I've heard, the ZX14 is more difficult to tune than the Hayabusa, and less durable when a lot of power is added. I don't know enough about the ZX-12R to comment about durability, but at the time it was designed, it ran higher power in the top end of revs compared to the Hayabusa rival at the time with 100cc less.

[@raynic1173]

MY understanding is that gsxr1000's also have the cylinders molded to the upper crankcase. Was also copied by BMW for the 1000rr

[@copper9head]

Where are the later rounds please? The first round on a cold track is never great.

[@karlknudson9249]

the zx14 is not popular brcause were the swing arm bolts up to the frame the factory didnt center the swing arm bolt it is all the way towards the front of the frame leaving no real solid support like if you had a slick and turbo making some real hp ity will break the frame were the swing arm bol;ts up i kno i own one and i asked skip from dme thats the answer he gave me i looked at bike and he was correct in that assumption also kawasaki had a factory recall about that very thibg i know i bought pnme new in 07 and got the notiice to bring bike to dealer fopr inspection

[@MrHannible]

karl knudson Never saw a real street or a grudge ZX14 break like that not saying its impossible but I would say its a concern for most serious racers the only excuse I've really come across to why they aren't as popular in say pro street or grudge racing is cost they are much more expensive to build and that's all I had to say about that.

[@thesouthernturtles5631]

Frankie stotz 6.42

[@copper9head]

At Santa pod raceway, that's awesome!