What's wrong with Ducati MotoGP bike?

[slowpoke]

Correct if the GSXR was using quality shocks etc also.

It WAS A FANTASTIC bike, it WAS F------in Fast and STOPPED well and once semi up write, it GRUNTED out of turns and it looked HORN, but it was never BALLANCED to it;s best I reckon.

I read an interview with Stroudy in which he mentioned the Britten taught him to ride slow. Compared to the GP and superbikes he rode at the time you could only ride it at 90%.

[wharfy]

Correct if the GSXR was using quality shocks etc also.

It WAS A FANTASTIC bike, it WAS F------in Fast and STOPPED well and once semi up write, it GRUNTED out of turns and it looked HORN, but it was never BALLANCED to it;s best I reckon.

I still on occasion go to Te Papa and have an over priced coffee just so I can sit and look at the Britten - It hasn't dated at all

[Shaun]

I still on occasion go to Te Papa and have an over priced coffee just so I can sit and look at the Britten - It hasn't dated at all

Lovely isn;t it. Shame it is not a FULL COMPLETE bike though

[DEATH_INC.]

No way mate, STRESSES at the TT are more than anywhere else apart from MOTOX on a motorbike if being ridden fast!

Um yeh, I meant cornering stresses/loads.
The stresses from the bumps and shit from a road coarse would be pretty horrendous in their own way

[Badjelly]

l think lt needs to go back to the tressle frame....

Brilliant idea!

[wharfy]

Lovely isn;t it. Shame it is not a FULL COMPLETE bike though

Have you souvenired some parts from it !!

Whats missing ?

[codgyoleracer]

I read an interview with Stroudy in which he mentioned the Britten taught him to ride slow. Compared to the GP and superbikes he rode at the time you could only ride it at 90%.

Life is full of backjanded complimets. :-)

[Cleve]

Post Brno test interview with Preziosi
http://motomatters.com/interview/201...ript_toda.html

[codgyoleracer]

Post Brno test interview with Preziosi
http://motomatters.com/interview/201...ript_toda.html

I seem to re-call Honda saying much the same thing when they decided to develop the V5 format. "we did it because it was hard & forced us to imagine new solutions - and learn something"

fantastic idea (all you need is the $$$$$$$$$$)

[Cleve]

I seem to re-call Honda saying much the same thing when they decided to develop the V5 format. "we did it because it was hard & forced us to imagine new solutions - and learn something"

fantastic idea (all you need is the $$$$$$$$$$)

yes - but so sad that apart from a few years of 990 MotoGP we never got to see anymore of the V5 anywhere else!

[k14]

yes - but so sad that apart from a few years of 990 MotoGP we never got to see anymore of the V5 anywhere else!

Has it been confirmed that next year they are going to keep the V4 (in the honda) or go back to a V5?

[pritch]

As I understand it the rules stipulate bore dimensions that limit the number of cylinders to four?

[LBD]

What's wrong with Ducati MotoGP bike?

Um....the number on the front?

[DidJit]

Ducati building an aluminium chassis as a parallel project...

[Metastable]

I was reading the original article a few days ago.... very interesting. However going back to the Britten...
- Yes it is no GP bike.
- Yes maybe when it comes to cornering it doesn't have the ability/feel of other bikes (I don't know)
- Yes TT racing is a totally different beast with the bikes often more vertical as opposed to leaned over for long periods of time.

However, the fact that some dude from Christchurch could build a bike from Carbon Fibre strands (it wasn't even prepreg CF sheets), that was GOOD ENOUGH to kick ass at a high level of competition is even MORE amazing now, when CF is being readily used in all sorts of applications, yet the top level of motorcycling still doesn't have CF sorted out. I just think that the problems Ducati is having with CF just magnifies how awesome Mr. Britten really was.