How much does a 620 actually cost to make? £2,500? £3,000 maybe?

If Ducati UK supplied 36 identical bikes, and it cost £2,500 for 8 meetings, plus a £1000 deposit for crash damage, I think you'd still get a full grid.

Ducati would get shed loads of publicity, and everyone would have an equal chance.

I'm sure Ducati could gain enough interest from another big company to back the series, to make up for any shortfall.

It costs £300 a meeting as it is, almost. So £400 for an equal bike gets my vote. Although people like Louigi won't get to show their skills and bike prep.

Actually, thats a crap idea :lol:

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lets have a DSC raffle

2000 plus members, say you sell 1000 tickets at a fiver each £5k

6 prizes only - comprising

paid for ACU/New Era licence and membership
1 race entry
free bike use on the day

The math-

ACU/New Era stuff £140x6 = £840
Race entries £100x6 = £600

leaves £3.5k to buy, prep and run a bike for the year

bit tight - up the ticket price by a pound or two -

obviously I would'nt buy one (unless the DSC bike is better than mine) but for everyone else - fair game and no-one argues over who gets the ride

in fact, anyone want to ride #65 for the day next year, £10 a ticket, restricted to the first 1000 entries :eureka::eureka:

£100 per meeting to race on "equal" machinery with Weeksy and Domski!?! :P Anybody wanna buy my 583? :devil:

Not after Weeksy's broken it :P:P:P:P:P

no worries there, I'm only giving him one spark plug :frog:

if it were 100 pounds per race day I'd probably take it for the season.

Good!

I'm glad to see there are plenty of good ideas being kicked about and its also nice to see other sections are thinking along the same lines hopefully, with members interested as well.

Great debate as well...excellent that people are trying to think of answers / workarounds for the negative issues - I like it !!!

Frank

i think the way its going you want to worry about getting a place on the grid. its going to be busy busy busy next season i recon.

True, but if any entrepreneurial types fancy running a bike for me!! :devil: