From: R P on
Is the 990 going to remain the spec for next year? Is there still a
twin cylinder limit & a multi-cylinder limit?....or is it 990 across the
board?

Are there any more endurance races [motorcycle] I mean that are left.

Like LeMans,.Bold'Or,.Spa & such?

Ya never hear about them any more.

Never hear about side-car racing either?
I've heard it still goes on in Canada,..but on a very limited schedule.

Ron

From: Bruce on
R P wrote:
> Is the 990 going to remain the spec for next year? Is there still a
> twin cylinder limit & a multi-cylinder limit?....or is it 990 across the
> board?
>

990 has been out of spec for 3 years, it's all 800 now.
they adjusted the weight limits base on # cyclinders.
pretty much everyone is running 4 cyclendar, most V4
some I4 i think.

Bruce
From: R P on
man has it been three years,..I thought this was the [change-over]
year,..??....then I heard talk that they weren't going to?

What ever happened to the K/Roberts / Petronas engine?....V-5 I think.

It's a shame we lost someone like John Britten....& I don't mean that
in a selfish way either. But he was genius!

Ron

From: Mark N on
On Sep 14, 12:15 am, Julian Bond wrote:
> Mark N
> >Me, I want to see Team Roberts with their chassis and Josh Herrin and
> >Blake Young in the saddles. Mostly I just want to see GP2 with lots of
> >chassis, lots of bikes, and teams and riders from somewhere other than
> >250 and 125. Pretty psyched about this class, and would love to see it
> >eventually exported to the national championships in some form,
> >probably at its best those chassis housing WSS/FX-level production
> >motors of different brands. Now there's a DSB class I could get behind....
>
> The engineer in me wanted to see unlimited tuning of production motors
> from any factory. And some Triumph 675-3s.

Unlimited tuning is an expense problem; if it is truly unlimited, then
you're talking about prototypes. Gotta have limitations, I think, and
for national-level racing, rather low ones. 675cc triples, sure, and
also 750cc twins.

> But in the long term that may
> not have been in the best interests of the sport.

Not following you there.
From: pablo on
On Sep 14, 4:30 pm, Mark N <menusb...(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > But it's now 2009. Try and imagine what a 990 would look like now if the
> > development between late 2006 and now had been applied to them. We'd
> > have the advances in electronics, fairing design, tyres, all of which
> > have come on so far that the 800s are turning faster lap times. All that
> > stuff would have been applied to the 990s. And a 2009 990 would be
> > cornering just as fast as the 800s are now.
>
> Again, I don't buy that, because the basic physics are the same and
> won't change, whatever caused 800s to corner more quickly than 990
> using the same chassis and tires ...

Beep?! Same chassis and tires? You are out...