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Originally posted by couchcommando
What I am struggling with is why would you want to race and then put yourself in a position of not being able to win ? Ability aside the whole point of racing is to try and win. By saving money and noy buying warmers/wets you are at a disadvantage that you can't make up.
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The bikes should be close enough that this kind of thing may not make a difference. It comes down to the cost/participation factor - if you desperately want to participate but can't afford tyre warmers, does that stop you from participating?
Ask weeksy - he's planning on doing the TT but knows he won't win it, so I'm guessing he'll be able to tell you the same reasons!
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| It would have been better within the rules to have banned warmers and wets and had a road tyre as the control tyre, like some of the other cheap series do. |
True - my preference would have been to use road legal tyres only, with no wets nor a control tyre (just because I have a mental block on certain tyre makes!).
But then for all the rules this is the only one that I don't like, so it's not enough to stop me participating.
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Also I see you have to have a road licence, I can't understand this as I'm sure there may be fans of ducati's out there that may want to do this but don't have a road licence yet they would have to go to the expense of getting one ?
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This is, apparently, ACU regulations.
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I see 80hp mentioned for these bikes but no internal mods allowed, where is the 80hp coming from and who is gonna police the engines for legality ?
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This is not part of the spec for Desmo Due, nor has it ever been. I suggest you read the full rules -
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I am totally for cheap racing and I like this idea, I just don't think it's the cheap racing you were aiming for, if it was you could have set the rules a lot better  |
You obviously haven't read the full rules as yet.
See above.