An introduction and welcome to TFR

Y'all may have seen this sneaky little post on the Ridin' Tunes comments:

'The sound of 12K RPM at 160mph...'

TFR

This guy is a buddy of mine whom Nate has met (he was one of the erstwhile plumbers when we picked up that AC unit in Lexington) and he's not kidding about the 160mph. But he means 160 in the 1/4 mile!

See, TFR went out and bought the baddest bike then on the planet, the Suzuki Hayabusa, (the baddest bike is now the ZX10R) upon which the combined knowledge, reasoning, innovation, sweat, and overtime of a thousand Japanese engineers was lavished too make it the ultimate pull your arms out of their sockets, blurr the scenery fast. All the while still being capable of touring, daily driving, or shooting the twisties with aplomb.

That's not fast enough for TFR.

9.6 seconds in the 1/4 mile just won't do!
Gotta do it in 9.0!

So what's TFR do? He takes it apart. Seriously, new bike. Incredible bike. Nothing wrong with it! He takes it apart. Sets it up for drag racing and goes around runinng it on weekends. Extended swingarm, high compression pistons, the whole bit.

Somewhere some Japanese Project Engineering Team Leader is thinking,

"We make perfect motorcycle! Spend billion yen on design and testing! Motorcycle fastest in whole world! Still dependable! Ride to work! Take wife on holiday! You fuck up motorcycle! Only go straight line. Stupid American!"

In TFR's defense he did win a race this past weekend. But, ya' can't get him to go ridin' with ya'.

Unless you agree to stop every 1/4 mile.