It's amazing the kind of stuff you talk about when it's late at night and the beers are plentiful.
A few mates around my place recently and the conversation turned to the subject of drag racing over the quarter mile between a car and a bike. Yeah, the bike would win every time. So the conversation then turned to the question of what would it take for the car to win over the bike?
Yeah, we where drinking quite a lot.
So we layed down some ground rules. A budget of around $30 kay for each which pretty much gives us a rock stock Commodore Omega v6 car and something like the new Yamaha Vmax strip monster. To stop any arguements about actual times we assumed the Omega would pull consistent 15.0 second quarters and the vmax 11.0. Both probably do a little better but essentially, a 4 second difference.
So, how to turn the tables on this mismatch? We came up with a surprising number of different methods. So get your brains working and see what you can come up with. Here is an example;
A reverse drag race. Both bike and car race in reverse. Omega has a reverse gear. Bike doesn't. Omega crosses the line in 30 seconds @ 50kmh, rider takes 4 minutes to push the vmax backwards up the track to the finish line.
Get the idea? Right then get to it!



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