When School Is Meant To Be A Drag

When school is meant to be a drag

ROUNDUP

As we mentioned in November’s Roundup, motorcycle schools provide the opportunity for riders to improve their on-bike skills and perfect techniques. But until now there were no schools where someone could learn how to beat Terry Vance off the line of a dragstrip. Enter Dale Walkerand his Holeshot Performance Motorcycle Drag Racing School scheduled to begin classes in February.

Walker, a former AMA Drag Racing Champion, will conduct his oneday schools on Saturdays throughout the year at the Baylands Raceway Park Drag Strip in Fremont, California. The school will have a fourto six-student limit, and will be open to riders over 18 years of age. Riders must provide their own protective gear (that means full-face helmet, gloves and full leathers), and serious riders—racers, that is—can even use their own motorcycles. For everyone else, Walker will provide the motorcycles, which as of now will be Kawasaki 1000 Eliminators. The cost of the class is $225 whether you use your bike or Walker’s.

For the first half of the class, riders will get several hours of instruction, and each of their runs will be videotaped and analyzed.

For the second half, wheelie bars will be on the bikes and full-out passes will be made, so that riders can work on competition-level launches. Walker recognizes that his school will attract riders who want to improve their quarter-mile skills, but he is also set-up for students who have no racing experience and for those who have no desire to race. He thinks that anyone with a V-Max or a V-65 Magna would love his school. Call (408)427-3625.