Street and Drag Tips!
We've been working on a format for this page and thanks to your feedback we will be offering a new street and drag tip every month.We decided from the responses that we got to start with the basic essentials that you will need to start drag racing.We will also be answering questions that you send in online so that everyone can benefit from the answers.Thanks for the responses and keep sending them.

Drag Tip #2:
Drag Tip II is going to go over bike preparations. Since there are many different types of bikes and classes that you can run, we are going to go over the basics for now.

First make sure you have good tires on your bike. Tires that are dry rotted or have excessive wear on them will compromise your safety as well as your E.T.

Next make sure that your chain is oiled and free of kinks or stretching. The chain is an item that is generally over looked but when it fails it's damage can be catastrophic, both to you and your bike. Make sure to also have a chain guard in place. In the event that a chain should break it will keep the chain in one place.

You should have an ignition kill switch on your bike. The purpose of this item is in the untimely event that you come off of your bike in an accident, the motor will be turned off preventing the motor from propelling the motorcycle any further. Check the rule book for your local track or racing sanction to see what their requirements are for a kill switch.

When you go to the track you are going to need a numbering system. Some race tracks allow you to place your bike number and dial in on the body work of your bike but the preferred method is to have dial in plates securly mounted on your bike on the side of the race track tower. Try mounting your plates in a location that makes it easy for
the tower personnel to see it. A misread dial in or bike number during eliminations could cost you the race.

This concludes our bike prep section. Remember that this is just a brief description of some of the things that you are gonna need to do to get your bike ready for the race track. Each track and racing sanction may have different requirements so check theirs prior to racing. Check back next month for Drag Tip III, staging and racing process.