You're excused. Goodby.
But seriously, there cannot be a race class for every bike to be competitive in. There are just too many variables. If you wanna race the TLR, come to Aukland and race 'open twins', there's all sorts in that group, but you're gonna need to be Rossi to keep up with the 1198's and other exotica.
It's not about creating another class, it's about getting this old fangled class off the ground in the coming season. It just seems unnecessarily restrictive to say carb's only when the fastest carb'd bikes from around that 2000 era are way fasterer gooderer than FI bikes of the same era. What's fuel injected from before 2000 that would get anywhere near an R1 or FireBlade? What's got carb's after 2000 that will be competitive against 'em without starting Spend-War 3? What benefit/reasoning is behind the carb's only stipulation? I just don't geddit.....
There is no cost benefit to running carb's over FI: fit a pipe or ram-airbox to your carb'd bike and getting it jetted correctly won't be any cheaper than a Power Commander and that's assuming the carb's are in half decent condition to start with which is unlikely on bikes up to 22 years old.
Good on Vic Club for trying something different but I reckon the numbers would look more viable if they hadn't been unnecessarily restrictive. Time will tell I guess.
Hmmmm, didn't the very first YZR-M1 MotoGP bike have carb's? "Oh Mr Yamaha...can I talk to you for a second....?"
It's obvious that the carb'ed R1 is the bike to win the class on, but who cares. I'll still run the RF.
It is stipulated "Carbed", because the age restriction is "Post 1990". That allows anything, so someone who runs mid pack on his L2 gixxer thou can enter this class instead and be very unfairly advantaged.
Bingo.. pre 89 the bike to have is a fzr1000. regardless of the class there is always gonna be a bike to be on.... some one try a zx9r with a muzzy 1000 kit in it... might be worth a crackor a cbr900 running a 954 kit,think out side the square,one of the joys of these classes
Growin' up as a kid, always thinkin', you know If I could ever just race motorcycles and make a living that would be the coolest thing know to mankind.
Not to forget that the VMCC committee asked for submissions on the class to set it up some time ago.
So we all had our chance to make alterations to the set up.
I'd still smoke you all on my 250, if I could have been arsed suggesting that it was INCREDIBLY discriminatory to not allow GP bikes into the class, eh Skunky wunky!!!
But I guess every race would have to be wet.......
Get a 2-stroke up ya's all that's all I have to say about that ......
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Ono Lennon.
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I have heard this before as well
Crazy Man posted an F3 timesheet a while ago from way back when and a lot of the 400s were doing 13s/14s. I haven't seen a 400 get under 17s/18s in recent times at that was with a decent rider and in theory, tyre/suspension tech should be much better now! Maybe we are just pussies...![]()
#24 1989 Honda NC30
most of thoses 400s were 96 onwards and running 600 front ends etc etc also I know with the zxrs theres about 25 kilos different between them and 89 zxrs but saying that back then the track was rough... only one line thru thr hairpin you had no choice in that, turn one was a bit like that as well with the slippery cement patch mid corner. its kind of a hard one to pick really bikes where different and a shitty surface (IMO) and today bikes arent the same but the surface is better.
Should put Glen Willams on your 400 Crazy man should be about the same as a Jared Love on a FZR400 and compare times![]()
Growin' up as a kid, always thinkin', you know If I could ever just race motorcycles and make a living that would be the coolest thing know to mankind.
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