Commando burn outs?

I've gotten to do this on couple of bikes, one till bad ole tire blew in pea soup thick clouds I disappeared in. Inside a motorcycle shop then outside, got cheers from construction crew across the street but no photo's. On Commando I've don't want to waste tire too much but its still fun a time or 3 First time was 1st week on 1st Combat-pre-Peel, finding more power when mufflers blew off so got in line at drag strip to discover the thrill of pre staging burn out warm ups. Got some practice on rolling burn outs on Ms Peel but not good enough to video yet. Its what I must learn though for phase 5 turns on pavement or just not go that fast around. Did leave big faces in our village square like others tend to do too. SureI know nothing good to be said about doing it except I won't care after I die.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I1ksEz6oSI[/video]

On my "S", I would do burnouts by sitting way forwards with the original Avons, as soon as I fitted stickier rubber I started to have problems, broke the gearbox casing three times and the mainshaft once. Sad to say that was the main reason I sold it, too fragile and I was getting passed by hot Honda 750s and stock Kawasaki 900s, the writing was on the wall as far as performance of a British twin goes.

Jean

Ugh Thanks Jean, I can sure see how one could injure drive train in frail AMC boxes. The video shows a wet surface and best not to load rear at all like you learned, but still risk to hook up and wheelie away or up a wall on back over.

As to being out run by sports bikes, that's how I got my first Combat-pre-Ms Peel.
The fella wanted more top speed. I though it just a quaint vintage Harley like cruiser until after fixing bunch of leaks and ending up 5 year later with a sports bike spanker up over the ton and then still right with the angry squids and pro racers to over 130 mph.

Still I'd get out run if I slowed for blind crest and curves I'd had crisis in a time or two or just couldn't bring self to risk new ones in new places that these vistors had no idea what they were heading into but lucked out just then. These opens are at most 1/2 mile long so could catch back up by the time they slowed for turns and have to work my way past them or just hang back close to their tailed bored but not so much to risk what I know always lurking around here.

Next Peel will not have to worry about being out accelerated to who knows how fast. She will have tuck down forks like real dragsters to surprise Hyabrusa's etc before they can catch up. Peel will have more torque per mass than about anything out there with a tag on it and about same hp per mass which determines more the top speed rather than how fast its attained.

Jeandr said:

On my "S", I would do burnouts by sitting way forwards with the original Avons, as soon as I fitted stickier rubber I started to have problems, broke the gearbox casing three times and the mainshaft once. Sad to say that was the main reason I sold it, too fragile and I was getting passed by hot Honda 750s and stock Kawasaki 900s, the writing was on the wall as far as performance of a British twin goes.

Jean

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I have made this comment before in different threads. I got beat regularly by Kawasakis, and just about everything else when it came to straight line acceleration. But all of my buddies would be way behind me when we got into the twists. And I don't think it was because I was a superior rider! Usually I would be waiting at the destination with a smile still on my face from a nice ride when the rest of the group would finally show up cursing the winding road. I mean, really who drag races that often? Now I am forced to ride with Harley guys if I ride with anybody. Sheesh, the things a guy has to do!