Agreed. You need to rev to at least 5k before launching. You should be doing low 10's.

Haha yeah, waiting for my quickshifter to arrive. Rnd 1 street series starts here In Feb, so maybe 1 more T & T.

@@itchythrottle3304 Thanks for the quick response. Rnd 1 street series? I haven't drag raced at a drag strip in a competitive event since the late 80s. I still just enjoy drag racing ( 4 wheeled and 2 wheeled vehicles) for the enjoyment and to test myself. I have been drag racing at official drag strips since 1977 when I owned a ( then new) 1977 Kawasaki KZ 1000. I've tried to keep every time card/slip since then which currently has amounted to at least 1000 hurried trips down the strip. Don't care for 1/8th tracks and I've only raced at 2. I have raced at 4 significant 1/4 mile tracks here in the US. I look forward to racing my 2002 model this coming warm weather as soon as this extensive project is done. Good luck with it and keep the events shown here on KZfaq!

My friend has the 1999 bird and I didn't like the look of the Busa so I went ZZR1400 :) Absolute missile! Looks better too. In my opinion of course :) The bird for it's year and looks is a really nice bike too. I've ridden both obviously with m8 having the bird but the Big Z is a different class of machine and the power and torque is dif level.