| I've read and though some more!
Keeping aside the realities of racing as succinctly put by WJB, it seems that one school of thought is that we keep everything standard-ish and thus apparently cheap. The other is that we try to even up the performance by having selected mods.
With the first way, the smart money is on it soon needing a "standard" 620ie with 6speed box, slipper clutch etc to be at the front - not exactly cheap and not exactly fun for the carbed brigade to spend money and know that they wont be competitive.
With the second way the same applies to bigbore kits, flat-slides etc and again a stock 600 will look a bit slow.
Using rules as applied to CB500s wouldn't work as the models are too different to not need ridiculously complex model based exceptions.
So I'm starting to feel that maybe we should have 2 classes - one for carbed bikes with a few engine mods (dynojet,K&N etc) but no overbores and the other for injected bikes.
That way we keep the fun for those of a "strip off the lights and get out the lockwire" persuasion, we can cater for those with later bikes/bigger budgets, use current models to maybe gain Ducati interest and above all, have some good RACING.
Tyres and brakes are possibly another debate again, but I think it is the 600 vs 620 issue which will make or break this fantastic idea.
Oh, and no carbon microns should be allowed!!
Cheers, Paul  |