Spyda when MNZ allow an entire class to have non complying numbers then I'd be pointing the finger at them, they didn't care enough about there own rules to make sure they are followed
Spyda when MNZ allow an entire class to have non complying numbers then I'd be pointing the finger at them, they didn't care enough about there own rules to make sure they are followed
there's plenty of people doing it right, but it's the ones who don't even pick up the rule book and try at all, like two numbers for a start that are just taking the piss. What entertains me the most Sloan is the quality of work from signwriters. Surely they should be asking what the rules are for a competition class, that's not rocket science, or, does the signwriters association have links to these, it is their job after all...
mind you judging with the workmanship i come across almost on a daily basis it's par for the course in this country nowadays.
here's a couple of shots taken over the last month
71 !!! you should know better .
i tend to disagree with you to a certain extent.
i'm a tradesman, people come to me for my knowledge on product, applications, durability, sizing, adherance to the laws of the land etc, i'd expect a signwriter to at least ask the question, whether the customer wants to abide by them or not is the next step.
Neither of those are compliant Spyda. Try again
As much as I hate to admit the Aussies might have something right, take a page out of their book, they are tough bastards - don't comply, put your bike on the trailer and fuck off home.
That need only be done once to all non compliants at a single meeting and they would quick smart be bought into line.
10.2a Number digits to be of a BOLD type, and as large as practicable – 140mm
MINIMUM height, and must be separate (i.e. not overlapping) legibility of
numbers to be decided by the Technical Steward – if they are NOT legible
from 20mtrs ride by, rider will be directed to re-do the number in a legible,
legal form, and will not compete until his/her numbers comply.
never said they were, one is diabolical , the other shows there is on a modern superbike the real estate to comply easily. Riders expect to turn up at as meeting and the club/organisation has the tools to run the meeting, why don't they supply the tools for the organisation to run it for them, by tools i mean numbers that are workable.
I'm guessing Chop is just being difficult because he (along with the rest of us youngsters), knows that you cannot fit the mininum sized required number board shapes to the oem bodywork of a modern sports bike.
Somebody needs to supply a remit for a rule change (not me, i couldnt give a fuck, there's plenty of room on my sidecar), or just fit old school number boards like the old bloke who used to race the k6 gsxr600 did.
Doesn't every rider get a new copy of the rule book every year when they renew their license? The first job of a racer is to read the rules. You can't apply them (or figure out a clever but legal way to get around them) if you don't read them.
If you are given a copy of the rule book, you've no one to blame when you are sent back to your pits from the tech inspection because you/your bike does not comply with the rules. It doesn't matter if you didn't bother to read it or you just decided you were too important to have to follow the rules, it is your problem.
I find it pretty annoying to go to the effort of complying with what are at times somewhat dumb rules and then see someone on the track that didn't bother and the tech inspectors let them through anyway. If you don't like a rule, submit a rule proposal and try to get it changed. But until it is changed you need to follow the rules like everyone else.
cheers,
Michael
Transponders have made numbers more or less obsolete when it comes to the MNZ rules relating to legibility.
Bikes such as the R1 and gizzer dont have the real estate to fit legal sized numbers.
Moto GP bies dont even have rear numbers now hence the tiny tails so fashionable atm
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