| I'll tell you what, I'll put David Banks, the brand manager for Bickers in touch with you Gordon, or you Chris, and you talk to the guy. All I have done is to have a discussion with Kev on here when you all jumped on...had you chosen to read the FIRST of our chats you would have noticed that these tests are being conducted to see that the tyres work adequately on DD bikes, and if they do, then Bickers would approach the RC with a view to putting a proposal for their POTENTIAL use in the series, with a cost benefit over the existing tyres to the participating paying riders. Nothing more. No one has ****ged the Pirellis, no one has suggested they are unsuitable....this came about during last year when Diablos were like hens teeth and Rossos were just a twinkle in someones eye. IF these Maxxis are so bad....as has been suggested/hinted by a good number of you, then they cannot possibly give any performance advantage over the Pirellis, so let ME run them this year. And if I do better than I did last year then they may be worth looking at....i dont care where they are made...30 years ago we all used to take the **** out of stuff made in Japan, and many of you are old enough to remember that. They are made in Taiwan, which is NOT the Peoples Republic of China Chris, in case you really werent aware of that. Even Brembo have most of their discs now made in Thailand by Sunstar Engineering, and all the Big 4 Japanese manufacturers have many components made in mainland China....even Nankai leathers are made there these days.......Alpine Stars in Indonesia, so come on, lets not knock a product because of where its made, thats pathetic.....if the facts point to them being **** so be it, but childish racist accusation is well below the level I thought you'd be punching at Mr Bushell.  |