| "Suggestions
In light of my initial comment of some people likely to want to retain only one (decent) track bike, is there any scope for spinning off a second series like:
- open serie for any Duke?
- open serie for any road bike? (although many road bikes in the club have serious mods, so road bike does not mean much anymore)
- special serie for 748 4 valves / 900 2 valves with some restrictions on how standards bikes should be."
Thanks for all the thoughts guys, to give you an idea of where we were coming from the initial series suggestions were:
750 cup based on 750SS/Monster-my opinion was that this would be a difficult one since there aren't actually that many 750's out there.
My suggestion was to go to 900SS/monster simply because of availability-when this was fully kicked around it was finally decided to come up with the 600/620 series as it was felt that 900's would possibly be too fast for novices whereas the 600's are both available and slower/less intimidating, and cheaper!
I did suggest a 748 series but again this was felt to be too expensive as there are so many things you can do to a 4 valve motor and 'cheque book' racing would seem to be the inevitable consequence.
Having decided on 600/620's there was a lot of discussion around whether we just restricted it to standard spec 600's-possibly just monsters-with modifications limited to making them race worthy. It was then decided that since the 600 with a 680 kit would produce roughly the same peak power as a 620 but would actually cost less that we should allow 620's.
That's how we got to where we are, and from the post's so far most people are happy with things as they are structured. If you go out and buy a 620ie monster for about £3,000 you can with minimal mods race it. As an alternative you can pick up a 600SS/Monster for £1,500 or less and race that, to be competitive with the 620 you will need to spend a bit to get it to 680 but it will still be cheaper than the 620, and it will be worth less-either way it's (comparatively) cheap racing. To have an absolutely level playing field would mean us agreeing that either we use all 600's-probably monsters since they are more available, or all 620's again monsters, which would sort of go against what we are trying to do.
I'm not saying that we have got it right, but it's about the best we can do.
John  |