RICKEY GADSON. Fast Facts

 

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Rickey Gadson is the most recognized face in motorcycle drag racing. Appearing in every major motorcycle magazine on the planet for his over 30 years of domination .  With his “from the back streets to the Big Time” success story, he has a continued ability to cross over sport’s fans, “wow” the media worldwide, and garner fan attention unparallel to the sport of drag racing.

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​Gadson has "single handedly brought motorcycle drag racing to the main stream media’s attention", through his ambassador status in the sport. His smooth charisma and television prowess has launched him to the top of his sponsors marketing campaigns. He has also starred in Kawasaki’s nationally advertised commercial on ESPN, ESPN2, SPEED CHANNEL, Velocity and FOX sports as well as anchored the companies social media internet campaign.

 

The Philadelphia native managed to land a Full time Factory Sponsorship and is only motorcycle drag racer on the planet to appear on the cover of all 4 major main stream national motorcycle publications. Winner of 11 National Championships and over 200 national events, he is the winningest racer in AMA drag racing history!

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THE CONCEPT FOR THE SCHOOL came when Rickey realized that motorcycles were now capable of producing sub ten second pass with proper riding skills. Many riders marveled at the quick E.T’s that Gadson was able to achieve. Gadson used his riding prowess to produce the first 9 second pass on a stock 600cc motorcycle. This feat brought drag racing to grace the cover of Cycle World magazine. Gadson’s coaching’s has impacted many many riders and has helped shape top level drag racers.

Gadson’s is one of the most popular and successful motorcycle drag racers

on the planet. As a student of Gadsons Sportbike Drag Racing School (established in 2000),  you will have one on one attention. RG can identify the problems and fears that can be associated with drag racing motorcycles. Gadson then will help you conquer those short coming to improve your racing ability This type of attention can be invaluable to a racer. Gadson’s over 30 years of drag racing knowledge and proven performance on the track has lead to training available people who want to learn to race properly, safe and be successful at your venture into motorcycle drag racing.

Drag racing is now receiving worldwide attention by everybody from TV

journalist to world famous actors and racers. As the sport progresses the amount of people entering the sport has become staggering. Most try the trail and error approach only to spend thousands of dollars trying to go faster yet they have yet to address the real problem. Gadson’s past students have improved there skills and posted their best personal E.T record during the school.

You are could become part of an elite group of people who have learned from

one of the most successful racers in the history of drag racing.

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DRAG RACING 101​

In drag racing, acceleration is measured by elapsed time(et)—meaning, elapse time is calculated from the time your front wheel moves til the time it reaches the finish line 1320 feet later.

Before you line up, you gotta do a burnout. Doing a burnout heats up your tires and gets ‘em real sticky to create traction. It gets all the dirt, rocks and all the extra gunk off of them, too.

So you’ve seen the starting lights on a drag strip. We call this “the Tree”, or sometimes it’s called a “Christmas Tree”. Two invisible beams of light cross the starting line to trigger the staging process on “the Tree”. Once you cross the first beam, that’s what we call pre-staging. This is where you do all your final preparations and setup your clutch,rpm’s, feet and body position.
Inching forward into the second beam is called “staging”, and there’s no turning back here. It’s go time!

If using a Full Tree sequence—that’s 4 ambers, 1 green and one red bulb that indicates a foul start(red light). There’s 5/10th’s of a second between each light and you better be ready to launch the moment it hits green, or all you’ll be seeing is tire smoke and tail lights.

The hardest part about drag racing is getting the start perfected! Leaving as quick as you can without being slapped in the face with the gas tank!

Once you’re flying down the track, this is when precision shifting is key. Missing a shift, or shifting short of the red line, can cost you upwards of 2/10 of a second. That may only be a blink of an eye but in drag racing, you can win or lose by as little as 1/1000 of a second.

And that’s the basic breakdown of drag racing.