Bike vs car drifting!

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Greenroom
Greenroom
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23 Feb 2011 1:14pm
This vid is insane. If your a rev head check it out.
The editing and camera angles are great and capture the excitement.
They even have a remote control car with a camera on it following them down the straight.

doggie
doggie
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23 Feb 2011 1:38pm
Yea, that bike was sic!!
patsken
patsken
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23 Feb 2011 2:28pm
That's how Troy Bayliss had to ride the Ducati GP bike when Ducati first re-entered the Moto-GP scene again about 10 or so years ago.

The Duke had so much horsepower that it would come out of most corners with smoke pouring off the rear wheel and going sideways. They have tamed it now into a great race package......
Ben 555
Ben 555
NSW
456 posts
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23 Feb 2011 10:07pm
patsken said...

That's how Troy Bayliss had to ride the Ducati GP bike when Ducati first re-entered the Moto-GP scene again about 10 or so years ago.

The Duke had so much horsepower that it would come out of most corners with smoke pouring off the rear wheel and going sideways. They have tamed it now into a great race package......


Or Gazza McCoy on an equally brutal YZF 500 -

Great footage,great riding Awesome
kiteboy dave
kiteboy dave
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23 Feb 2011 9:47pm
The guy's a decent rider but the huge swingarm and tyre take most of the risk out of getting a bike sideways.

Somewhat hairier:


Mark _australia
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23 Feb 2011 7:49pm
Awesome footage! Awesome driving!

I did wonder though why an RX7 drift car only had 375hp .......... then realised typical Yanks, they'd dropped a V8 in it. WTF? Pretty easy to get 600hP out of the rotary
jacksondkitr
jacksondkitr
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23 Feb 2011 10:13pm
Greenroom said...

This vid is insane. If your a rev head check it out.
The editing and camera angles are great and capture the excitement.
They even have a remote control car with a camera on it following them down the straight.




3.16
was that a gopro hd that i can see here?
CJW
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24 Feb 2011 12:36am
Mark _australia said...

Awesome footage! Awesome driving!

I did wonder though why an RX7 drift car only had 375hp .......... then realised typical Yanks, they'd dropped a V8 in it. WTF? Pretty easy to get 600hP out of the rotary


Most drift cars don't have insane horsepower, you don't need it. LS1 swaps into an RX7...or basically anything these days is insanely popular as it's a very reliable, light motor. Still you can't beat that brap brap
Spocktek
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23 Feb 2011 10:07pm
[Or Gazza McCoy on an equally brutal YZF 500 -

Great footage,great riding Awesome


YZR500 you mean
Prawnhead
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24 Feb 2011 8:51am

there were some great stills of this around at the time
one handed power slide wet/damp track at well over 250km/h on probably the fastest turn on the whole track with a victory salute thrown in .........pure gold
Ben 555
Ben 555
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24 Feb 2011 9:42am
Spocktek said...

[Or Gazza McCoy on an equally brutal YZF 500 -

Great footage,great riding Awesome


YZR500 you mean


OOpps sorry YZR thanks spock
log man
log man
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24 Feb 2011 11:22am
I remember seeing Wayne Gardiner riding the early version of the big bang honda at Phillip Island, coming onto the main straight with the engine bouncing on the rev limiter, , with smoke coming off the FRONT WHEEL !!! that guy was/ is the greatest!
Spocktek
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24 Feb 2011 8:46am
OOpps sorry YZR thanks spock


CJW
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24 Feb 2011 11:07pm
log man said...

I remember seeing Wayne Gardiner riding the early version of the big bang honda at Phillip Island, coming onto the main straight with the engine bouncing on the rev limiter, , with smoke coming off the FRONT WHEEL !!! that guy was/ is the greatest!


How exactly does that work? Sure you hadn't consumed a few too many brews?
kiteboy dave
kiteboy dave
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24 Feb 2011 10:57pm
There ya go prawny
log man
log man
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25 Feb 2011 12:28am
Yep, and just about every lap. And yes I had consumed.
cam0063
cam0063
WA
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24 Feb 2011 10:37pm
Impressive... Early dirt drifting that is still very popular in Nth America is Flat Track. I hear some guys have adapted these to drift on Bitumen... I am building a dirt track bike for the road. Street Tackers they call them in the US.... Tho wont be throwing it sideways down the roads, well not planned. Its all fun!
MavericK040
MavericK040
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24 Feb 2011 11:26pm
Mark _australia said...

Awesome footage! Awesome driving!

I did wonder though why an RX7 drift car only had 375hp .......... then realised typical Yanks, they'd dropped a V8 in it. WTF? Pretty easy to get 600hP out of the rotary


Yeah it ruined it for me when i saw it had a V8 in it good driving and riding no doubt,

But the RX7 just isnt right with a V8. if it was a 20B or even a mutant quad rotor it would have been and sounded sooo much more awesome!

oh and 600Hp is a big push for a 13B-REW But for a 20B its easy peasy. Ive been known to lurk around in the odd rotary
mkseven
mkseven
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2315 posts
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25 Feb 2011 3:58am
Not so much of a push, im aiming for 500hp with mine (dropping down a turbo size or 2 from that typically found on 600hp 13B's) for the exact reasons a 600hp twin rotor aint suited to drifting. But it's still track/dyno only setup at those power levels.

But you are right, why ruin an rx-7 with an LS motor- just buy a vette perhaps (in the same regard i'd never ruin a vette or mustang with a rotor). I much prefer Mad Mike's quad rotor drift 7.

Anyway I don't really rate the rx-7 driver at all, but he's learning (everyone got to start somewhere). From watching a reasonable amount of drifting american's tend just powerslide their way into drift [}:)], makes you wonder if they'd cope at all with a 180hp ae86 or something. No one beats the japs at making cars dance.
Prawnhead
Prawnhead
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25 Feb 2011 10:01am
i must be a complete klutz/goose in the world of flannos , V8s and dump valves....took me six months to work out that i couldn't "drift " or " get loose on the gravel takeoff" why? car has traction control ......hello d*#khead...

nice work kiteboydave!!
Dawn Patrol
Dawn Patrol
WA
1991 posts
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25 Feb 2011 9:18am
some slightly different drifting!



Greenfinger
Greenfinger
WA
239 posts
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25 Feb 2011 5:32pm
Some more bike drifting here
SandS
SandS
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25 Feb 2011 10:50pm

skill level on pushbike higher than guy driving car!!
patsken
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26 Feb 2011 10:03am
The only drifting I've done is when I've broken a mast or boom and ended up drifting down-wind to do the walk of shame.......
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