A few years ago, in the car world, everyone thought Kumho tyres were junk. Then they sponsored a BMW series with the V70a and now its established as one of the best list 1b motorsport tyres out there and a regular fitment on a lot of mega high performance cars.

It'd be really dumb of a tyre manufacturer to promote a tyre in motorsport if it was junk.

Don't even go there Mark,

I asked a ligitimate question about "COMPULSORY" Dyno testing and the risk to the club of an engine failure on the Dyno'....and no-one took that seriously either....

....the ACU didn't take " medical support for practice days" seriously until Barry Sheene sued and entry fees sky rocketed for every rider as a result of the claim and the subsequent increase in race insurance.

I would be interested to know just how many DD'ers actually ride at those recommended "ROAD" pressures.

where theres a claim, there's blame.......







purposely written the worng way round ;)

So you bought a DD bike yet????

I hope you didn't take this comment as "anti Ducatisti" I thought I'd made it quite clear that it wasn't. Apparently somebody was looking to provide brake discs as DD prizes but for some reason (which I am not aware of) stated that these would only be available to Ducatisti forum users riding in our series. It just seemed a bit odd?

There is no issue with people who wish to offer prizes or trophies providing that they observe the basic courtesy of ensuring that the RC of the series are aware of this so that details can be included in the information circulated to all entrants.

I am fully aware that all the riders are DSC members. :rolleyes:

I can't see why you can't run your bike with Ducatisti stickers on it as long as the series stickers are also present.

Neither I or anybody else on the MT of the club have anything whatsoever against the Ducatisti organisation at the risk of sounding repetitive. :) :)

Anyone got any decent part worns going cheap ?

I'll let the Member who will be donating the disc's comment on that :)

and less of the eye rolling :D

Nothing wrong with a bit of eye rolling :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :frog: :D

I'll look forward to the comments :)

Paul, before you quote inaccurately, perhaps you'd be better off asking that member directly what he ACTUALLY said...which was that the prize would be offered to ANYONE in DD, but it would be a discretionary prize aimed solely at real beginners in the sport...and since the majority of those these days seem to come via Ducatisti, it is likely that it would be a Ducatisti member that would gain that prize. But as you are well aware, all DD riders are DSC members, so no discrimination is being applied..whoever wins it will be a DSC member.

Last year we did ask via email if it would be ok to give a few cups to riders on the other channel and we got the nod only if we kept it away from the paddock which we did :)
I still didn't win one :mad:
I did win a packet of choc hobnobs for rider of the round at mallory though :)

I wasn't quoting anybody if you read my post, merely questioning something that I'd heard that sounded odd.

I'm sure the RC will sort it all out with whoever is putting the prizes forward so that all the riders can be properly informed.

You do seem frightfully keen on the capitals in your posts, are you a shouty type by nature? :)

Not at all Paul, they are capital letters, not shouting...capital letters may be used to place emphasis on a word, to help avoid a passage being misinterpreted, but its got nothing to do with shouting.

I can't really see why anybody would want to do that, surely its a DSC series, all riders are DSC members irrespective of what other clubs they belong to so wouldn't it be more in the spirit to be more inclusive of all the riders?

Not really an issue just a question.

I think you will find it is considered as shouting in forum useage but if you feel the need to "emphasise" that is of course your prerogative.

They had the chance to..... the post was on Ducatisti back in Jan 08.
open to all who use the forum.

It was just a bit of fun :)

Fun, FUN, FUN???!!!! Stone the heretic!!!:lol: :lol:

Well yes, an off at said corner did occur, not a tyre problem just a depth perception spacial one! Two bikes one apex does not work, do they teach that at CSS?

The other was at CCombe, others tried to hit me but I rolled away to quick.

Apologies to Eric, Glyn, Phil, Otei, once again. Good value for the fans though! LOL

Back to the initial question

The answer is NO and it looks like they will not be available this season
As the H rated Diablos now seem to be restocked there should be enough to go around.

As such I'm in the market for a nice new set of H rated Diablos

Maybe with the current economic climate Pirelli have put off tooling up for producing them, prefering to save the money on tooling costs for now safe in the knowledge that they already have a good tyre on the market that sells well.

Maybe we will be repeating this thread in early 2010

Blinkin eck! The pre-season love in...

Please enjoy yourselves, you lot. It's meant to be fun.

mark

This ie easily answered, as these points were put to Pirelli back in 2004.

It is primarily to do with the weight and power of the bikes, rather than top speed. The weight and performance of a 500 will not put as much heat into a ZR rated tyre in that important 1st couple of laps as they will into an HR.

The ZR is for 100bhp and and say 190KGs and that weight and power would warm them up.

Chris

Go on, I dare you. :lol: :lol: I did.