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| Originally Posted by Jolley I am not sure it needs checking. If there is to be a random dyno testing session at one of the rounds we will see if anyone has too much go in their motor. At that point it can be decided what to do with that bike.
Also, if Nog starts winning every round by half a lap we might look into it.......
In all seriousness though, I doubt we should be too bothered by anyone else's bike. I have checked mine to see it is as close to the 53bhp limit as possible for the following reason: I do not have the skill to take apart the engine, so this was the easiest way of me checking to see there was no outragous power. If the bike had been obviously over the 53bhp I would have had someone look at it to check there was nothing illegal (Not easy to know on a bike raced by 2 different owners). I suggest scrutineering works the same.... all bikes, or any suspected of too much power, are tested on a dyno at one of the rounds.
As for the money aspect, I do not see the argument. If you have a bike as close to the power and weight limits as possible, realistically no other rider can have a faster bike than you regardless of the money spent. As I have said before (and others on here have said), the top finishers could finish top on 70% of the bikes on the grid. |
Yeh - kind of
- efficiencies in engines and balancing / weight reduction etc, can mean that although these engines do not make any more power (that could be measured on a dyno), they can make this power more easily and quicker. So as a result the bikes they are fitted with these engines can be faster (they get up to speed quicker) than those bikes that are not so well "balanced" or don't use lighter-weight engine components.
But as many have said, the differences that fitting a lighter/balanced crank and/or a lightened/balanced flywheel (both of which are illegal) won't necessarily make any difference in the real DD world (as the differences are relatively slight) and these won't show up on a dyno.
If a 583 could be made (within the rules) to produce more than 53bhp (and still be legal), then the challenge would be how to optimise that bike to make more power lower in its rev range (effectively better torque) and still fall below the 53bhp thresh-hold at the top end. you're then in the land of exhaust mods (2-1,2-2 etc) and other areas.
But - Its the Indian, not the arrow.
Tim