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    Quote Originally Posted by steveyb View Post
    What Jasonu says about the Harely1200 racing has merit, to a point. People do love close racing no matter what the machines are, to a point. But people also love the show, the politics (no matter that we say we don't, we do actually get off on it), the noise, the colour, the personalities (people and machines or should that be machinalities?), the pomp, the circumstance.
    its more than that tho...why do i acknowledge that moto 2 is bloody good racing but i dont watch it....because there isnt a brand related to it.something to hang your hat on.....even if the brands dont actually mean much to me(aprilia,derby,mahindra in the 125s for instance) i somehow find them much more intereesting to watch than the insane moto 2 class.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by BMWST? View Post
    its more than that tho...why do i acknowledge that moto 2 is bloody good racing but i dont watch it....because there isnt a brand related to it.something to hang your hat on.....even if the brands dont actually mean much to me(aprilia,derby,mahindra in the 125s for instance) i somehow find them much more intereesting to watch than the insane moto 2 class.....
    Yes, I meant to say that too....

    But then, we (as in the general public) get into F1 and that is based mostly on teams rather than factories, to a point (again).

    Or is it that the F1 teams have the same sort of pulling power as factories, and hence why the new kids and minnows in F1 have little following while the Maclarens etc are household names, cos to all intents and purposes, they are factories. Thereby supporting your arguement.

    I think that if V8 Supercars was team based and not factory based, very few people would be interested in it.
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    Hmm, interesting I tend to follow the rider rather than the brand of bike they are on.
    Terol is starting to make 125's a lil boring atm.
    The ex 125 guys in Moto2, Marquez and Bradley Smith are great to watch and follow there progress. And in MotoGP do you stop following a rider because he rides another brand of bike?

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    If you were barking mad you could kit a relatively recent RS125 and enter GPs as a privateer.

    Interestingly enough, the Mahindra bikes are sort of kitted Hondas.

    They are modified Honda NX4s from a privateer factory in Italy that builds a rotary valve system for the Honda engine.

    They are going well enough now. A few teething problems over the years (as the Lambretta, Loncin, Italjet(??) and now Mahindra, but not bad now).

    But I think that with the budget to buy the right kit parts, be replacing stuff regularly and with a good suspension tech and the right rider, it would be possible to qualify at most events. Not all of them cos at the fastest circuits you would simply not keep up, but the fast circuits are fewer and fewer now. But one of the problems with that idea is that most of the people that would contemplate it are teams with beginner riders who are in a development phase and not fast enough compared to WGP competitors. So with the disadvanatge of the bike, team and the rider they are all on a hiding to nothing. Chuck Terol on a good Honda though and he will qualify at most events, maybe even finish in the pack somewhere.
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    I love the 125gp bikes, but im a 4T thumper man !!!! should be a great series if it gets off the ground.
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