[quote=WeeJohnyB]
The never-ending saga that is tyres in DD
The word safety is raised above and has been many times before and no doubt will be again. How can you tell me that it is 'safe' to ask a rider to ride to their limit and beyond in race conditions on a road tyre on a cold and wet March morning with no tyre warmers. Any racer will tell you it's madness, most wouldn't go out under such circumstances. In my first year in CB5's, wets were not allowed, but warmers were. I am by comparison to some of my lunatic competitors a fairly smooth rider, so I actually enjoyed the wet races on dry tyres as I knew I could beat others I normally wouldn't and that some of them would fall off. I have watched DD'ers tip toe around a corner in the wet and sat at The Hairpin and the Mountain at Cadwell watching good riders fall off and take others out with them.
What price 'cheap' racing when your bike is in bits, the guy next to you in the paddock's season is over because you took him out and you are sitting in a hospital bed - all for the cost of a set of warmers or wets.
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I have made this point before as well but we appear to be in the minority.
And if people feel there is no benefit in the use of tyre warmers why ban them?
I have no problem with the Pirelli's or the single tyre rule.
But it would be nice if at Pembrey at the end of September, they were up to temp. before the chequered flag.
Where people source them from is their own affair. Having Mark at Holbeach's services trackside is great and one thing less for me to worry about.
My concerns about a 748/9 class is that it has been done in SS600 or SOT or some other class that is not 'Ducati'. and it goes even further away from the 'cheap racing' phylosophy that fills the class B grid while the enthusiam for class A (Gucci) seems to be dwindling away.