GP125 Race bikes are awesome!

[diesel pig]

Honda have announced they will no longer be supplying 125's to any GP teams next year. The end is near...
However the power to weight figures for a RS125 arent really that impressive. Any 1000cc sportsbike like GSXR1000, R1, ZX10R are all cracking at at least 1hp per kg ie GSXR 165kg, 175hp! Now even allowing for the real world, if you had a weight of 200kg and 150hp at the rear wheel, youre still talking 1.33kg per hp, which is better than the 1.55 figure for the 125. How about a MotoGP 990cc monster? 250+ hp, 150kg 0.6kg per hp!!

In a perfect world that would be true, But the manufacters lie something awful about those figures.

[Tim 39]

Yes 125's are awesome!!!! they are great to ride and good to watch, I'll be gutted when they kill the class!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JeremyW]

nooooooooooooo how dare they kill such an awesome class!!! Cant we do anything about it?

[Tim 39]

well eventually they will kill them off, two strokes are a thing of the past because they're not the clean green image people are after but I hope they can keep going a bit longer yet!!!!!, but motocross has already made the 4stroke change

[Ivan]

Yes and no it depends on what oil you run in the RS I run Spectro PWC and always have anddoesnt smoke at all and a few 125gp teams are trying out valves in 2 strokes to try clean them down and before RG100!! rants on about I know nothing I do the 2 stroke Diesel ran a valve in it for the exhaust,


Now the 125s will die and it will be a shame but I can see there will be a class to replace them eg single poppa 4 stroke GP bikes but the thing is you wont be able to buy one probably