Honda or Duclattery according to the pundits. I will leave my (optomistic) pick until after FP2.
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Honda or Duclattery according to the pundits. I will leave my (optomistic) pick until after FP2.
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Moblie chicane
My virtual money is on Dovi for the win. It's been a long time coming. Eaahhhnoni will biff it, hope Suzuki have made lots of fairings for next year...
After that you'll have the Honda boys IF they can get the bike picked up and out of the corners, but only if.
Forum whore
It will rain and Jack Miller will win, solely to piss me off.
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KB Chief Cat Herder
Hasn't been much noise about this, haven't seen anything on motogp.com. It is for 2017 though.
http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/moto...der-luthi-ajo/
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Geriatric hoon
I can read the Asphalt and Rubber site but I can't read that link. It just shows as a page of gibberish.Originally Posted by Mental Trousers
KTM are getting involved in a big way. Rossi's SKY 46 team will be running KTMs in Moto3 too apparently. The more the merrier.
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BMW Motorrad
Forecast says rain.
Awwwww poor Lorenzo.
If you can make it on Kiwibiker you can make it anywhere.
Moblie chicane
And Maverick. They melt in the rain!
KB Chief Cat Herder
There's a mention of it buried in this one https://motomatters.com/analysis/201...aces_rins.htmlDid you hear? KTM is working on Moto2 race bike, to compliment the Austrian brand’s move into the MotoGP Championship next year? We only learned about the project earlier this year in February, but KTM and WP suspension are supposedly quite far with their progress on the bike, and are now “ready to race” in earnest.
It might seem a little strange to see a KTM building a race bike chassis around a rival manufacturer’s engine (the Moto2 class is powered by slightly massaged Honda CBR600RR engines), but zie Austrian’s are serious about their Grand Prix racing presence, and feel that they need to be involved in all three of the championship’s classes.
KTM CEO Stefan Pierer recently talked to Germany’s Speedweek publication about the Moto2 project recently, where Pierer revealed that the Austrian brand will race in the Moto2 Championship starting in 2017, with a team lead by Aki Ajo.
Brad Binder and Tom Lüthi will be KTM’s Moto2 riders for the inaugural season.
Lüthi is currently 4th in the Moto2 Championship, and has six Moto2 race victories to his name. Meanwhile, Brad Binder has been impressing in the Moto3 Championship, which he currently leads with an impressive 47-point margin.
Assuming that WP has put together a solid race bike platform, and there’s no reason to believe they haven’t, KTM’s Moto2 racing team should be a strong contender out of the box.
The Moto2 Championship will only be Honda-powered through the 2018 season, a point that has been driven home by Honda’s recent abandonment of the 600cc supersport segment.
This means that from 2019 and onward, Moto2 will need a new engine supplier. Could today’s news signal what’s ahead for KTM? So far Pierer says there are no plans for a full KTM Moto2 bike, but never say never.
Found the article on MotoGP.com http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2016/0...project/192165
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Fully qualified Sifter.
Crazy Joe all the way.
L-Plate Rider
I'm going to have to start watching moto2up till now it's been moto3 - break - motogp for me...
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Forum whore
Why? It's just another Honda among many, with no power, that will get backed into corners like a 450cc Motard by either a has been or a no-hoper.I'm going to have to start watching moto2
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I stick with the break. An extended toilet stop is more exciting and fulfilling than watching Moto2. Plus you have time to refill the fridge.
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L-Plate Rider
Yeah I agree, but I am a Binder fan... Apparently Honda is only making moto2 engines till 2018 - maybe KTM will step in?
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Low personal B.M.E.P.
There are plenty of names you'd only associate with F1 who have excess capacity at present for engine manufacture.
Due to the emphasis on hybrid technology which is at present only working in the hands of a very few engine manufacturers the ones who know quite a bit about conventional N/A engines are doing a bit of a starve...
If the FIM put engine supply for Moto 2 out to tender, don't be surprised to see some familiar names put in tenders...Business is business and engines are engines.
KB Chief Cat Herder
That is the opportunity to get something much more inline with GP engines instead of a tweaked road engine. While they're at it they should penalise anyone that uses beam frames + telescopic forks. Try and get some innovation going in the class as that's one of the original goals of the class.
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
Moblie chicane
Smartest thing this man has ever said. Give him a hat!
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