would you watch superbike racing if H-D was winning?
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From: Joisy
The Revolution is WAY to heavy for bikes that running 300(ish) pounds fueled. In AMA they minimum weight in the rules is like 285 dry for Superbike.....half of which would be a revolution.
The 1125 in the Buells was designed by Rotax who also makes KTM and Aprilla's twins....which is hilarious because the Rotax power Aprilla Mille isn't allowing into Daytona Sportbikes either.
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I'm a pretty big Rossi fan. Valentino does things with a motorcycle that make the hair on my arms stand up......drifting THROUGH the middle of the Laguna Seca corkscrew? C'mon, thats insane, and he did it three laps in a row.
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The Revolution is WAY to heavy for bikes that running 300(ish) pounds fueled. In AMA they minimum weight in the rules is like 285 dry for Superbike.....half of which would be a revolution.
The 1125 in the Buells was designed by Rotax who also makes KTM and Aprilla's twins....which is hilarious because the Rotax power Aprilla Mille isn't allowing into Daytona Sportbikes either.
The 1125 in the Buells was designed by Rotax who also makes KTM and Aprilla's twins....which is hilarious because the Rotax power Aprilla Mille isn't allowing into Daytona Sportbikes either.
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Guys I know what your saying that H_D should be able to make a water cooled racer of thier own . The fact is H-D riders are fanatical about the old air cooled pushrod V-Twin and want to see THAT particular motor up near the front of the pack. Hence the huge displacement advantage needed to make it competitive. There is a BIG fan base that has yet to be tapped into . ... Asfar as the Japanese go .. I was in the VR1000 loop when irt first came out. Of course they still wanted to win . But they also bent over backwards hopeing to have that big harley crowd cheering the VR1000 into SECOND place . They looked the other way to let Harley essentually build a racebike from the ground up ( a gp bike?) Harley just dropped the ball having TOO many different consultants in the mix . hell ford was even consulting at one point . Jake
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Also Watch the HP figures if they are at the crank or RWHP . Many times they post crank hp for RWHP( rear wheel horse power , rule of thumb crank hp -20hp = RWHP) Thats why I get 1800 as guestimate . if 1400cc = 160hp at crank 1800 should be roughly 200hp at crank.... ALso Pegram just won with ducati 1098 base which to a race team is the same as 1198 . They should let the 1198 in also to be fair 100cc ist a make or break with the internal mod restrictions ( that changed ALOT this year for the literbikes ) The Point im making with the old AIR colled twin is to get . AVERAGE JOE rider in the stands . WE are enthusiast and will watch reguardless. Jake...... ps ROLLING STARS ARE BS ITS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR SAFETY BUT IT STRINGS OUT STARTS AND STARTING A RACE MIDCORNER IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN A DRAG START .
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