One of the Greatest

Boris's bike was one that always had to smoke the tire in those days, he didn't have the low end power like the Harleys so when he got on a good track that had some hook up for his kind of a run he made exceptionally good passes.
My singles were hard to keep the front end down off the starting line, it was all drag strip riding ability, all my good runs producing the best times had no weight on the front wheel through the lights, you could turn the handle bars left or right and if it wasn’t for the wind create by the force forward the bike would have kept a straight line forward. In the top end I did a lot of steering with my feet on the pegs.
My Double did some pretty high wheel stands off the line and if I hadn't shut down on some runs it would have been a "flip". I always felt the reason you got in the air off the starting line with the double was because of a lack of power. If you didn't have enough horse power off the line then what you had try to turn the bike over at the rear axle.
My last year when Ron rode for me, my Double had a set of wheelie bars, but being new to wheelie bars at the time, they were to short to be effective. Riding with wheelie bars would have been a different ride for me and I would have had to learn to ride all over again. The advantage of wheelie bars is tremendous. They would be like adding another motor to me.
If I had to work hard to keep the front end down off the starting line and was successful steering with my feet in the top end, then I knew I would come up with a good number in Speed and ET.
If you really want to understand about weight transfer and wheelie bars, go to Puppet’s Web Site (RaceVision), he has it down pretty good.