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[Monty]

Thanks Lizzie for your correction, I thought the 620ie had been going longer than that but it said on a website I was looking at that it was introduced in late 2003..............
If you can indeed get a 620ie for £2,500 or less then it removes that argument. The big bore kit won't fit the 620 and was put in to even up the power figures, the 620 also has a 6 speed box (apart from the dark's which still have 5).
We didn't want to limit it to monster's only since the 600SS is a nice bike and is reasonably available-the 620ieSS is however favourite but is a VERY rare beast. Get yourselves an old SS or monster and have some (reasonably) cheap fun. The idea behind having only 4 rounds was again to keep the cost down-4 rounds will cost you about £1,000 with entries, fuel, getting there etc so was felt to be within even a fairly limited budget, and as long as the bikes are not to highly modified they can then be used to get the wife/partner through a bike licence, or even used to commute on. "What did you come to work on today?" "Oh I used my race bike........." How cool is that??

John