MotoGP 2012

[Badjelly]

The nice thing about a MotoGP bike is it looks so like an ordinary sportsbike you could ride on the street. You can't say the same about an F1 car, it looks nothing like and ordinary sportscar.

True, but this is not unrelated to the fact that an F1 car is typically 20s per lap faster than a MotoGP bike.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Crasher I remember the fleeting moment when WMCC was a Yamaha dealer - I even looked at buying one at the time. Mind you I could say the same about Triumph.

That's when I started here. And the reason we're now neither is the same too.

[Badjelly]

And the reason we're now neither is the same too.

And that is, what??

(Sorry, I know this is off-topic, but as a mere customer I've been watching the dealership merry-go-round and wondering what the hell is going on. Surely there must be some good gossip.)

[Crasherfromwayback]

And that is, what??

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Both Moller Yamaha (the distributor at the time) and Triumph NZ sucked serious arse.

[DidJit]

MotoGP porn and bare, naked CRT chassis...

[spada]

Anyone know if the vyrus company are going to run their funny front end bike this season? Saw an article in a performance bike mag about them doing it a while back but haven't heard anything since.


This is the first page of the article: Go to page 11 of 23 of the preveiw
http://issuu.com/kardesign/docs/pb_nov_2011_sampler

So has anybody heard anything?

[merv]

True, but this is not unrelated to the fact that an F1 car is typically 20s per lap faster than a MotoGP bike.

That's more due to the fact it has four wheels and not two.

[SimJen]

That's more due to the fact it has four wheels and not two.

wings help those damn 4 wheelers a little too!

[Crasherfromwayback]

That's more due to the fact it has four wheels and not two.

wings help those damn 4 wheelers a little too!

F1 cars stop waaaaay faster than GP bikes (funny that), and obviously corner faster too (funny that too). But a GP bike is quicker in acceleration. And a million times more fun to watch.

[SimJen]

F1 cars stop waaaaay faster than GP bikes (funny that), and obviously corner faster too (funny that too). But a GP bike is quicker in acceleration. And a million times more fun to watch.

debatable whether a GP bike is quicker in acceleration! F1 cars do 0-100k in just over 2 seconds maybe even quicker these days! From all the comparo's I've seen of race bikes vs cars etc, bike are sort of stuck in the 2.5+ second zone!
But whats clear is that Motogp or bike racing in general is far more of a spectacle to watch, especially as you can see what the rider is doing!
F1 is just a little head bobbing side to side!

[Crasherfromwayback]

debatable whether a GP bike is quicker in acceleration! F1 cars do 0-100k in just over 2 seconds maybe even quicker these days! From all the comparo's I've seen of race bikes vs cars etc, bike are sort of stuck in the 2.5+ second zone!

I beg to differ. A Hayabusa or ZX14 will be pretty close to 2.5 sec 0-100. A Moto GP bike will kick sand in their fat faces.

[SimJen]

Id like to see it

[SimJen]

I beg to differ. A Hayabusa or ZX14 will be pretty close to 2.5 sec 0-100. A Moto GP bike will kick sand in their fat faces.

A Mclaren MP4-22 did it in 1.753 seconds at Silverstone! Don't think a gp bike can match that......I could be wrong.

[Crasherfromwayback]

A Mclaren MP4-22 did it in 1.753 seconds at Silverstone! Don't think a gp bike can match that......I could be wrong.

Like stopping and cornering...an F1 car has two huge tyres for drive. So maybe it is quicker out of the hole to 100kph. But I stand by the fact that I reckon a GP bike will blow it into the weeds in a drag.

[SimJen]

what we need is everybodies favourite wingeing opinionated twat Jeremy Clarkson to do one of his famously unbiased comparo's, then reverse the outcome to get the real answer!