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[Hilleye]

I'd be up for a 6 or 12 hour, suspect the field would be quite small though.
Having as many riders as you like and a bike for spares might make people a bit more keen.
My preferred strategy would probably be to start pulling the useful bits (clip ons, rear sets, engine) out of the spare bike as soon as the flag drops.

Would you bother worrying about limiting spares? It'd just reduce the number of finishers. The time penalty spent in changing something like a complete motor over would probably be enough me thinks.

[Henk]

Depends on what you want to allow in the way of spares I guess.
For the two hour here you have to start and finish on the same bike. If you make it open slather you could have everybody ride their own bike and take the reliability issue out of endurance racing.
Also means fuel stops would become a case of park one bike start the next, also the wet bike dry bike approach that would take any strategic advantage out of making the right decisions on what tyres to run.
A mate and I played the wet bike / dry bike game here one meeting since we were in different grades at the time. Did practice on wets, qualifying on slicks and the races on wets, gave us a bit of an advantage on a day where we had changed wheels five times before we got bored with it and took the easy way out.

[F5 Dave]

Good greif, is this fool thread still going? You'd trash your racing budget & a set of tyres in just one race. What a waste. & besides it would be pointless. The 2 hrs are fun, but not often the result isn't known by 1/2 way (some recent exceptions). But any longer on a bucket? bah. Leave the bike to race the rest of the year.

[Hilleye]

Depends on what you want to allow in the way of spares I guess.
For the two hour here you have to start and finish on the same bike. If you make it open slather you could have everybody ride their own bike and take the reliability issue out of endurance racing.
Also means fuel stops would become a case of park one bike start the next, also the wet bike dry bike approach that would take any strategic advantage out of making the right decisions on what tyres to run.
A mate and I played the wet bike / dry bike game here one meeting since we were in different grades at the time. Did practice on wets, qualifying on slicks and the races on wets, gave us a bit of an advantage on a day where we had changed wheels five times before we got bored with it and took the easy way out.

I think use of the same bike throughout should be about the only requirement. So no "bike blows up grab another bike", it'd be "bike blows up fix existing engine or insert new engine", which is obviously going to consume time. As for cost, well it's going to be split probably between 4 - 6 ways so I reckon it's probably still pretty affordable. 6 hr events have proven the concept works already and is good fun, don't think anyone had to file for bankruptcy.