topfueldragbike: the strip NZ drag racing history & culture tag:topfueldragbike.co.nz,2026-10-31:strip 2026-10-31T01:21:00.000Z Your first drag meeting: what to expect, what to bring, how to stand https://www.topfueldragbike.co.nz/strip/your-first-drag-meeting/ 2026-10-31T01:21:00.000Z A first drag meeting is loud, long and easy to enjoy if you know the rhythm. What to pack, where to watch from and how to look after your hearing. What it takes to run a race team: crew, clutch and the 4am rebuild https://www.topfueldragbike.co.nz/strip/running-a-race-team/ 2026-10-31T00:02:00.000Z A quick drag bike is a small business on a trailer. Here is how the work divides up, from the tuner and clutch hand to the person who keeps the paperwork straight. From club days to nitro: how a bike racer gets to the strip https://www.topfueldragbike.co.nz/strip/from-club-days-to-nitro/ 2026-10-30T22:35:00.000Z Nobody starts on a nitro bike. The path usually runs through test-and-tune days, a licence, a lot of slower runs and years of learning from other people's crews. Where the strips are: Meremere, Ruapuna, Taupō and the airfields https://www.topfueldragbike.co.nz/strip/nzs-drag-strips/ 2026-10-30T21:48:00.000Z New Zealand has only ever had a handful of purpose-built drag strips. The rest of the sport has run on motor racing circuits, aerodromes and the odd closed road. How to read a timing slip (and why the 60-foot matters most) https://www.topfueldragbike.co.nz/strip/reading-a-timing-slip/ 2026-10-30T20:26:00.000Z Every pass down a drag strip produces a small printed slip of numbers. Here is what each line means, and why racers look at the 60-foot time before anything else. What is a Top Fuel bike? Nitro, a blower and 1,500cc of bad ideas https://www.topfueldragbike.co.nz/strip/what-is-a-top-fuel-bike/ 2026-10-30T19:05:00.000Z A Top Fuel motorcycle burns nitromethane, usually breathes through a supercharger and makes power on a scale that has little to do with road bikes. Here is what is going on underneath. From a coal mine to Meremere: how drag racing started in New Zealand https://www.topfueldragbike.co.nz/strip/kopuku-to-meremere/ 2026-10-30T18:12:00.000Z The first sanctioned New Zealand drag meeting is believed to have run on the floor of a coal mine at Kōpuku in 1966. Seven years later the country had its first purpose-built strip.