HARLEY Chopper STUNS Nitrous HAYABUSA in BIG MONEY winner-take-all Drag Racing Showdown
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- Опубліковано 3 вер 2020
- Join us at Keystone Raceway Park for the richest motorcycle drag race in the track’s history as dozens of stretched, nitrous Hayabusa, GSXR 1000, ZX-14r, and even ONE Harley Chopper showed up to race for the big money. We pick this up as we are down to just 7 motorcycles and it’s a Harkey chopper vs sportbike as Ken Koby tries to pull off a Harley chopper underdog ride that would make Rocky IV seem mild. From the Harley Chopper loud sounds, to the burnouts, wheelies and top speed we see it all at Hogs Gone Wild Pittsburgh. We will catch up with our victor in the winner’s circle to see how he did. Please be sure to share with any Harley Chopper fan!
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That chopper is using a hand clutch foot shifting taking out bikes with sliders, air shifters and delay boxes that’s pretty badass.
Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
Dustyn Williams That’s not saying much for those busa’s ...and I own a busa.
CycleDrag Definitely the busa, I build Harley engines for a living and still race metric bikes instead lol
@@cycledrag the chopper, why you ask? I wanna see the scrapes on his chin from the jaw drop. That is of course after I whip that a#$ w that chopper 🤣😂🤣😂
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Your enthusiastic coverage is excellent!
These bike drag events made possible by Uncle Jack! Ty Sir!
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Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
@@cycledrag i would pick the busa cause it was way faster
What a guy and he said that god shows him what to do. Thats a real man.
Praise God
magic skydaddy
Those are 2 brothers right there. That’s why we ride bikes. That’s cool. Thanks jack
Great job! Love all the sticker endorsements! Love the coverage! Thanks cycledrag.com!
"Chop em down".🇺🇸🇬🇧
I don't even have a bike, but I love these. So all I can do is promise you all, that this afternoon... I am going to absolutely cane my lawnmower! 💪🇬🇧
Good stuff
I always wondered what this strip was like. I drive my semi on 22 to save money getting from Altoona to Chicago, And saw this place from the road.
Nice strip
Bet you won't stop and run the rig. Haha, stay safe out there.
I remember this old dude in a Nova, with a Straight 6, bracket racing in West Hampton against rails an stuff..
He'd put it in drive a floor it. Always won and always pissed everyone off.
Guy at 42 in salem oh always won in a station wagon . consistant wins !!
WHATEVER DUDE!!!
insurmountable odds' for the Hayabusa racing folks
.the Lord, a pristine day at Keystone Raceway Park.A man his Harley Davidson Chopper .willing to be moving
a tough combination to beat
Hare and the Tortoise springs to mind, ain't what you got, but how you use it !.
The real beauty of Bracket Racing is, it's all down to the rider / driver, and not how deep your pocket is.
Props to the chopper for looking like a bike you can see on the street.
But bracket racing seems like participation trophies. I still like heads up within displacement classes & rule sets.
-Matt’s dad
The softail custom appears to have an Ultima engine. Choppers are by definition a frame that has been cut and modified.
I had a friend on an old 450cc honda that was totally consistent. I swear he could run 14.50 in the rain.
That's awesome! The Suzuki guy put his bike on the chip about 5 seconds early trying to get into Ken's head but it brought him bad karma and the Suzuki red lit.
I have a friend that used to win the bracket races out the local drag strip every month in a stock Model A Ford bracket racing is not about going fast, it's about going the same speed every time. Anything that can get from one end of the track to the other consistently can win.
Who cares its bracket racing.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 0
What a lot of BS ....
What do you race ?
Any human who doesn’t have a ton of money to afford a pro street bike
Right. It’s bracket racing. BFD
@5:40 That guy has that look like he just blasted some rails.:He seems like he doesn’t want to talk so his jaw doesn’t go crazy
I love a slow winner!! Thanks Jack!
Yep, I’ll show this to my Harley friends, and point out the HUGE (handicap) head start he got. I was hoping for a real race, and a better outcome.
That’s cool a chopper wow he just went to Walmart on it hilarious
I gather it was a handicap race. The Hyabusa had 200yds to catch up over 440.
Aka bracket racing
I would have given them a run on my 650 Kawasaki with a head start like that!!!!!
Its all about dial in. You can win with any car if all works out
A Harley won the nhra u.s. nationals against a four cylinder Asian rocket a few weeks ago in pro stock drag bike
If only the "Asian rockets" were allowed to run some real technology. They are required to be stuck in the 80's on engine design. The "harleys" get to use cnc cases,heads,and a non harley designed cylinder split and crankshaft. ...and an extra 600ccs. Even up the playing field and things would change. Bigtime
Nice
Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
I'm rooting for the Harley!
Yeah, I don't understand why they race side by side. Why not just do 4 runs each see who is more consistent and give them the win. You could literally win on a moped, don't have to worry about wheel spin hurting your time then.
I've got to ask. Why wouldn't a person just pick up a $25.00 moped off Craigslist and take a 35 second head start. He'd be just as likely to win as the guy on the chopper was. Is bracket really considered racing? I understand the concept, but never liked it.
Tim's Retirement Journey guys have tried on mini bikes. It’s a lot harder than it looks. The longer the run the more chances for mistakes. An 8 second bike can run you down quickly
@@cycledrag I love watching your videos, and I used to be involved in bracket racing myself about 40 years ago (with my '68 Camaro SS) but all you're actually doing is running against yourself and the time you dialed in at.
More often than not the person with the vehicle that has a ton of money into it will lose to the person with a bone stock machine that's far less valuable because of getting anxious and red lighting.
I'm surprised bracket racing has survived to be honest. The guy with the Busa would have been just as likely to lose if a woman in a stock 68 Chevelle with a 6 cylinder and a powerglide was in the other lane.
Somehow that isn't fair to the person with the fast machine. ;)
A two year old can win bracket racing
RRRIIIGGHHTTT. 🙄
Win by default xD looooool
You can win a bracket race with a 20 second bike against an 8 second bike..... it’s not that it’s impressive.... just that the 20 second bike is more consistent. Now that copper beating it in a heads up drag race would be impressive.... other guy also red lit.
can somebody fully explain this to me, please. i dont understand the waiting for the chopper...
It's bracket racing! You set a dial-in number and try to run it with out going quicker! Machine that runs it's time wins! 12.80 runs 12.81 beats a 9.15 running a 9.14, break out
James Huffman you should make this top comment as I assume people who like looking at racing but aren’t technically inclined might not know, but thank you for the insight!
@@jameshuffman835 You're probably right, but then why stagger the starts? Let them hit the lights at the same time and then try to stay within their brackets. The racing we see in this video looks a lot like giving the Harley a head start and then trying to catch it at the end.
Get to the choppa
Haw, you beat me to the punch.
Anyone who has bracket raced has seen this kind of stuff before, slower bikes are easier to ride consistently and luck plays a huge role in this kind of racing.... I have lucked out and won a few of these kinds of races.
The person with the faster vehicle also stands a far better chance of red lighting because they're already hyped about how much of a head start the competition has.
Harley leaves like an hour before the Busa and it’s a shocker.. LOL. HD bikes have no place on a drag strip and these Busa’s were slow as most run in the 8’s with length and bolt ons...
Whose 2-1 pipes are those on Ken's bike? I want a set for my Harley- for the ground clearance! Rebuilding her right now, all I see are low pavement kissers, but I'm a performance rider.
Whats the rule with the chopper going first?
The chopper clearly lost they didnt start at same time
its called Bracket racing is a form of drag racing that allows for a handicap between predicted elapsed time of the two cars over a standard distance. Both drivers place the times they think they can run before the pass. the tree offsets the start times so both cars/bikes will cross the line at the same time if they both hit the exact dial-in they submitted but reaction time and consistency of the car/bike factor in the times/outcome of the pass. a lot of these races are won or lost by .05sec or less
The effect of the bracket racing rules is to place a premium on consistency of performance of the driver and car rather than on raw speed, which in turn makes victory much less dependent on large infusions of money, and more dependent on mechanical and driving skill, such as reaction times, shifting abilities, and ability to control the car. Therefore, bracket racing (using the aforementioned handicapping system) is popular with casual weekend racers. Some will even drive their vehicles to the track, race them, and then simply drive them home.
This format allows for a wide variety of cars racing against each other. While traditional drag racing separates cars into a wide variety of classes based on power and weight, bracket racing classes can be simpler, and can accommodate any vehicle with basic technical/safety inspection.
@@bravoA-su8xm thank you
The old saying in drag racing is any win is a win, even if it’s a win by a mistake!
The chopper!
Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
Soo.... The chopper gets a head start and wins and everyone is impressed? Why
It's called bracket racing, slower steady bikes and cars often win.
Chopper! 🇺🇸
3:53 why does he get a head start?? Not much of a race if you have to give the other person half of the tracks length before you even start lol
Its called bracket racing. You post your estimated et. And try to run as close to your et as youbcan without going faster. The lights go green at whatever index split there is between the two dial in times so that if both riders caught a dead zero light and hit their et perfectly it should be a dead even race weather both vehicles are the same speed or not. It shows who is more consistent, and can cut lights more than who has a faster whatever.
He won..yes. but not a comparison. Im a Harler rider myself.
Why does the chopper get a head start
Chopper Vee twin power
What is that he's got to bring the belt back or pay $600 come on man
Torq wins fromHP a yamakawasuki . Hildo in the netherlands proven this a decade ago
Ummmmm.......that's was not what thought was going to happen. No heads up?
James Darrell Austin
Koby steaks all around!
More like Lost against the chopper because he could have still ran him down with 2 second lead but perfect reason you can't say i didn't go racing because i don't have fastest bike practice that clutch hand as you can ride anything and if you're running same number every time some great racers have won events in a rental car more than once 👍
That's e.t. racing for ya. Proves nothing.
The only reason the Harley-Davidson won is because they let him go a few seconds earlier LOL
There's no way a v twin could ever win in a head to head , start at the same time drag race! Harley Davidson's just CAN'T compete against metric bikes! They are the slowest bikes there is !
Kevin Sigrist That’s why they have bracket racing
Well in this type of racing, the slowest bike on the track wins? That's not a race! It's pitiful ! Harleys should only race other Harleys , that's the ONLY way a Harley can win a real race! They're ok for riding around on but they cant compete against metric bikes in road racing, motocross, ( real drag racing) not even in the hill climing these days! or flat track ! They are an obsolete design! The only half way fast bike they make is the V rod , and they discontinued it! LMAO!
@@kevinsigrist7022 and that was a Porsche motor
@@eammendola i've road a couple of V rods , they don't handle the twisty's verry good, but they are ok for drag racing, compaered to the rest of the Harleys , they are way better bikes
Slow vehicles are the easiest to run consistent runs in bracket racing. Its slow for a Harley based engine.
Busa would have won if he didn't red light with that 9.17.
The dog would of caught the rabbit if he didn't stop to take a shit
Too bad
@@jeffreyyeater1780 well if you cant appreciate how well he did from a bracket stand point then there's nothing to say. Enjoy your narrow view of the world.
I can't believe this. This can't be real
Is this a hoax?
It's bracket racing so it's not the fastest bike. you just have to run a consistent time
@@billprinty3697 oh okay thanks brother
I was puzzled by that one LOL
Yea you pick a time and have to get as close as you can to it without going faster,i seen a auto diesel work van win it once doing 18 sec 1/4 haha
Bracket racing is very complicated. You have to run the exact same time over and over again . go slow get passed . go too fast , break out ....lose . aint simple.
I thought this was a drag race but it's only bracket racing.. Bummer
Shit with bracket racing it could of been a 50cc moped beating the Suzuki !
harleys run consistent and they run a long time
Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
@@cycledrag probably the chopper because of my size 6'4" 265lbs . i never sat on a Busa but i believe it would be uncomfortable for me. sometimes when i ride the wife's 1973 sportster to test something they say i make it look like a mini bike. i would be proud to own either one of them . i really like your channel and the variety it shows. where can i get CycleDrag stickers ?
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Lol it’s a pig at a bracket race lol Bet you and the ole lady have matching Sturgis t shirts lol
@@benharrell6168 let them switch bikes see how they do
The chopper didn't win, they gave him an advantage. You can call it bracket racing or whatever you like, but it's still an advantage over the other Rider.
If his bikes that's slow, tell him to race against a bike of his equal, not one far superior, where the slower bike needs to be given an advantage or head start.
I have a stock '88 Katana 1100 with 115,000 km on the clock that I'm certain would stomp that chopper in a heads up.
🇬🇧🤜🏻🏍💨
🙄
When people call custom choppers a Harley. Harley doesn't make a chopper, and that bike isn't a Harley. Willing to bet not 1 part on it was made by Harley.
Totally agree! S and S motor probably big cubes !
Headlight was, H-D gets them from China and has for decades.
It’s a thunder mountain keystone. Chopper frame and wheels and the engine and controls are all Harley. They are out of business now. Awesome bikes.
That ain't no chopper it's a softtail custom. In other words silly
Chopper gets a head start gay
Ha ha ha, get to the chopper..
Jack very exciting nice to see the Harley... Love bracket racing. 🏍🏍🏍
Choppers baby all the way.
Harley chopper stuns Nitrous Hayabusa .... with a 5 second head start. Wooo, I'm so impressed. Waste of time.
Buckeyes rule!!! V-TWIN!!
Bracket racing SUCKS!!!! That Chopper would never beat a sportbike in a heads-up drag race I'm not even 600's not to mention open class sport bikes!!!! And even then it took a red light by the Hayabusa for the Chopper to win.
In bracket... it doesn't matter how much flash, doesn't matter how fast. The ONLY things that matter are reaction time and consistency. A buddy has a 12 foot wall in his family room covered floor to ceiling with trophies, and he has started down the other wall. The prize money he wins pays for a lot of family vacations. His car??? A 1967 Nova SS... with a bone stock 6 banger and a slip and slide powerglide. Just leaves it in drive, doesn't power brake it, and doesn't even peep the tires off the line. He turns a mid-21 second 1/4 mile. BUT... he turns that mid-21 second run within 5 hundredth of a second of his dial-in every run. And, in many cases, the other car red lights because my buddy is halfway down the track before the other one gets the green. Everybody in the stands laugh when he has his first run. Nobody's laughing when he walks away with the trophy and prize money. Oh and... he drives it to and from the strip with his wife and two kids. Who says you can't have fun and win spending just a little money. He runs five states and, when he shows up, all the bracket racers get real nervous. They know he is the one to beat!!!
Milwaukee Rolling Thunder ==> slays Japanese Nitrous Rice Burner.
How the fuck did the chopper won if it got a weaker tine than the Hayabusa? Oh,...it's bracket racing. Yhat explains it.
handicap start, aka bracket racing
i don't get it, it's cheating , how can that be exiting ????
Guess I just don’t understand the point of giving the other guy lengths or a head start. Everything should be run straight up and whoever is fastest is fastest. CLEARLY anyone coming into this video knew that there is no way in hell that chopper could keep up, let alone win fairly.
I don't think you know what bracket racing is
No i dont know what it is, it sure looks stupid.
@@rider6.0 it is stupid.
Green Goat I know what it is. I said I don’t understand it.
Lot of ricerocket crybabies here today.
I guess I don't understand how this kind of racing works but I don't really care. If the chopper has to have a 3-second head start that's not racing.
No the chopper didnt win it was slower wtf is this. The chopper gets a head start that not right.
it's called bracket racing...
What a joke
Head to head the Busa would had blown the chopper away , pure bullshit race.
Firsttttt
Thank you for watching. If I told you I would give you one of the bikes in the final, would you choose the chopper or the Busa and why?
It is easy to bracket race and win with a slow vehicle. I mean lets think about it. It isn't gunna spin off the tire outta the hole. And its maxed out by the end of the quarter. Unless he wrecks that glorified scooter who cares that he can bracket race a 12 second bike. My ex500 ran 11s he just has a 50k$ pos! Imo
Ken just had the fastest bike!
Its so slow thats why its consistant. Lol
And on top of that SHOW HIM THE $
He is consistent slow fast what ever doing the same thing over and over is what wins
Bracket racing is NOT racing. That Harley winning means nothing ...
For all you guys that say this is not impressive obviously you have no idea what goes into bracket racing, the chopper has no racing electronics on it, most everyone in the field has, air shifters, shift light, auto shift, fuel tech, max ecu, slider clutch, and ken has none of that on the chopper, he went through a field of 50 bikes or more, and earned a bye run at one point cause of his reaction time on the tree, not only did he win this event but he won manufacturers cup last month against the same kind of bikes, so long story short come on out with us and prove you can win a bracket race on whatever you want to bring since it’s so easy to do!!!
He didn't really win......
Slow chunk of crap
Harley is king of all bikes on earth ..boys and girls
Great until we got to Jesus👎👎👎👎👎👎