Motorcycle drag racing

Is there anything more exciting than a drag race? Like automobiles, motorcycle drag racing dates back to the days of the first bikes a century ago, although the sport has evolved over the last few decades. The amateur races that were commonplace on rural back roads with the rules of "run what you brung" are long gone.

Weems Motor Co.'s alcohol-fueled, fuel-injected, supercharged 1956 Triumph drag bike...In 1950, drag racing pioneer C.J. "Pappy" Hart began renting an unused runway at the Orange County Airport for street racers to compete in a more organized (and legal) fashion, and one of the country's first

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Technical Editor Kevin Cameron takes a look inside the S&S Cycle Polaris Pro Stock Motorcycle V-twin drag-racing engine.