Motogp riders suggestions for speed reduction.

[Chrislost]

Yeah that was interesting, i had the race in avi format and watched those sections a couple of times, even tho casey was behind, rossi, he would wack it 100% 3-4 secs before rossi, and in turn rossi rolled on smoothly. so it was a good 5-6 secs before rossi was at 100%

you may also note that rossie pulls away from stoner with 2/3 the throttle setting that stoner has.

bahahaha at rossie is back up where he should be!1!

[codgyoleracer]

Limit to four gears in the box

[Chrislost]

Limit the noise...
and perhaps lower the rpm.

won't slow corner speed though

[ajturbo]

make them use the tyres that we SS racers have to...

[F5 Dave]

Was flicking through & thinking about Peter Clifords idea, but C.O.R. has beat me to it. 4 gears is a great idea. -Ultimately limits the amount of power that can be made as they have to concentrate on making wide power spread bikes, would use more fuel too. The useful road spin off is factories may invent more technology aimed at spreading power curves rather than the wheezy 600s with all top end & nothing else (but retain 5-6 spd for road of course).

The issue with traction control making the corner speeds more dangerous, even though 250s corner faster is (in my meagre understanding) that it is felt that it is so hard to crash on the way out of a corner, (you just slam open the throttle & let the ICs do the tyre slip regulation, if you believe the articles one reads) that the only way to make up speed is to enter at greater speeds, more-so than is wise on a big heavy diesel.

Limiting to 4 gears may alleviate this to an extent as it would limit the peak power & acceleration, thus would have to slow the top speed meaning this shenanigans would at least be having to be judged from a lower speed before braking.

Sorry if my comprehension for writing understandable sentences is a bit off today.

Or I could just say Bring back the 500s!

[Scouse]

600 cc 4 cyls 4 str in top class!!!!!!!!!!!

then they would be slower than the 250's

[svr]

Was flicking through & thinking about Peter Clifords idea, but C.O.R. has beat me to it. 4 gears is a great idea. -Ultimately limits the amount of power that can be made as they have to concentrate on making wide power spread bikes, would use more fuel too. The useful road spin off is factories may invent more technology aimed at spreading power curves rather than the wheezy 600s with all top end & nothing else (but retain 5-6 spd for road of course).

Dunno. Max. power (= revs) would still be important of course. Wouldn't the manufacturers just focus on over-rev capacity so gears could be held longer?
Doubfut that 4 speed boxes would result in nice lazy motors...

[F5 Dave]

Well revs have a natural limit that can only be encompassed upon with material & technology advances, most of these are close to the limit for the time being as we've seen with a few blow ups. So I don't see that they are going to be wanting to rev them any further & if they do the peak could be tuned closer to the top for more power.

If you gave an existing bike a 4 speed box it would drop off power when changed to the next highest gear (would also give the slipper clutch some more to think about changing down) so would accelerate much slower. So either they come up with some trick to make the power curve much wider, or they compromise peak power to make the power curve wider.

Either way mechanical advantage is against them & slower acceleration (and given a racetrack's confinement) slower ultimate speed will result.