MNZ proposed rule changes

[scracha]

yip it was the right move, but were tyre warmers?

Nope...and neither were wets.

Shinko make lovely 18" tyres BTW.


Anyone who think the new McIntosh Suzuki's are the same as the originals are kidding themselves. Cheater bikes plain and simple.

[jellywrestler]

Nope...and neither were wets.

Shinko make lovely 18" tyres BTW.
Anyone who think the new McIntosh Suzuki's are the same as the originals are kidding themselves. Cheater bikes plain and simple.

when did they start making the 18's, are they available acroos the sizes and wets were available as soon as slicks were.

in what way are the modern McIntosh suzuki's differnt, please enlighten me? I own a 1983 one, and have been over the new ones with some close scrutiny. the exhaust are modern but same technology, no exups etc, the rims are different sizing, as per rules and most posties out there, the motors are if modified essentially within the same rules as the other bikes of the same era, what do you think is different.
same frame builder, same painter, same tank builder......
clue me up as i may have been better to buy a new one of the bikes.
there's two McIntosh bathurst replicas on ebay aussie at the moment tooif anyone's keen

[malcy25]

Nope...and neither were wets.

Shinko make lovely 18" tyres BTW.


Anyone who think the new McIntosh Suzuki's are the same as the originals are kidding themselves. Cheater bikes plain and simple.

Wets: yada yada. Been around since slicks from the mid 70's
Current production McIntosh frames: Nice rhetoric. So, please do tell us which rule(s) are being broken in Chapter 25, and how?

[Kickaha]

there's two McIntosh bathurst replicas on ebay aussie at the moment tooif anyone's keen

Keen as fuck but just not sure where I can live or store them after I sell the house to buy them

[ac3_snow]

Keen as fuck but just not sure where I can live or store them after I sell the house to buy them

I could possibly let you sleep in the garage and keep the bike in the spare room.


Nah, bike would probably go in the lounge.

[sidecar bob]

I could possibly let you sleep in the garage and keep the bike in the spare room.


Nah, bike would probably go in the lounge.

Here's the correct method for storing a motorcycle indoors.
It also requires one very understanding wife.

[malcy25]

Here's the correct method for storing a motorcycle indoors.
It also requires one very understanding wife.

I wish I could....! Awesome.

[Voltaire]

Here's the correct method for storing a motorcycle indoors.
It also requires one very understanding wife.

+1

[sidecar bob]

Is that a challenge? Because you probably don't want to be challenging me at this game.

[nodrog:Me]

+1

Do you like bmws or something?

[Voltaire]

Is that a challenge? Because you probably don't want to be challenging me at this game.

Damn....Lego cop bike won't beat a Rickman and BMW...

[scracha]

Wets: yada yada. Been around since slicks from the mid 70's
Current production McIntosh frames: Nice rhetoric. So, please do tell us which rule(s) are being broken in Chapter 25, and how?

Regardless, they're not 1982 bikes so IMHO cheater bikes. Put the same running gear from one of the new ones on at 1982 one and I betchya the laptimes would be quite different too. Nice bikes but I'd be fucked off if I were running a real pre 82 bike.

Rules aren't being broken but the pre82 rules in NZ are a bad joke anyway. Cant say I recall watching fully faired 1300cc bikes with 200 section 17" rear tyres racing in 1982.

[Kickaha]

Cant say I recall watching fully faired 1300cc bikes with 200 section 17" rear tyres racing in 1982.

Can't say I ever recall watching any at any Pre 82 race event I've been to either

[jellywrestler]

Here's the correct method for storing a motorcycle indoors.
It also requires one very understanding wife.

why? it's no dirtier than a kid kitten or potplant

[jellywrestler]

Regardless, they're not 1982 bikes so IMHO cheater bikes. Put the same running gear from one of the new ones on at 1982 one and I betchya the laptimes would be quite different too. Nice bikes but I'd be fucked off if I were running a real pre 82 bike.

Rules aren't being broken but the pre82 rules in NZ are a bad joke anyway. Cant say I recall watching fully faired 1300cc bikes with 200 section 17" rear tyres racing in 1982.

they were manufactured pre 1982, the only difference with modern replicas is the wheel sizing and that same difference applies to.
some years ago i was interested in getting and running the pre production prototype plastic fantastic, which had steel swingarm and wasn't to the spec of the actual bike which was finished in late feb/march 83 (the actual first race plastic bike) the movement were dead against it, despite the bike being heavier than it's predecessor the Aloy monocoque, so i fail to see how the mcIntosh suzukis can't be elidgeable, like for aexample a later model clone of a bike that was pre 82 but continued being manufactured after the cut off date.
as for pre 82 fully faired bikes, there were some and the cc limit then was to 1301 from memory to allow the z1300, big bore cb1100r's etc out there, yip the wheels weren't but i think we've gone over that.