You make a VERY strong point, Ray.
Colin Edwards:
"Well as far as traction, there's 15 different ways of getting to the same objective. You can lift the front up a little bit, you can raise the swingarm pivot, you can sometimes even put a heavier rear spring in it, because sometimes all it needs is a little more force, pushing it into the ground, where you'd tend to soften it up, which would take a little of the force away."
"So it just depends on you. You have to make that decision and you have to understand what parts will do and once you do it enough, then you start to understand and well, you don't make any more mistakes. They are all ways of arriving at the same goal. It just depends on the rider and what he wants."
"You know, there's not one simple solution of "Hey I want it to turn better, lets lower the front." That just doesn't work, as soon as you do that, you are creating other problems. Motorcycling is the epitome of compromise, cause you're never going to have the best handling bike and the fastest trap speeds. You can have one or the other, but you'll never have both. It is either sacrifice handling for horsepower or sacrifice horsepower for handling, and then you have to decide where to stop. You look at the lap times, that's all you do, then you decide what's what.”