| I find some of the comments a bit disturbing, is it being said that riders who can not lap as fast on there bike as some one like Hodgson, Toesland or Shakey would on the same bike are all incompetent. If any of them were happy to take my bike to its limit and feel safe in doing so I would consider that I had done a fairly competent job of putting it togeather. The fact that I can't ride it at their sort of pace is mainly due to a lack of skill/talentl, coupled with a lack of fitness, agression and a good dose of self preservation (old enough to know better)following to many hospital stays.
I race for fun, quite often attending meetings by myself in excess of 160 miles from home and crashing is not something I want to do, although it does happen on the rare occassion. To help me stay upright and get to the chequered flag I try to put the best bike I can out on the grid, knowing that I will reach my limits well before the bike does, put my mate Adrian on it and he will be near the front of the field in any club race, stick the 955 Corse engine in it and he would probably be on the podium. Last Year I raced a TL1000S which certainly had more power and speed than my 916 and took me to finishes in the top 5 and in every race I entered on it I was always the first TL1000S home, maybe some of this was because of the Ohlins shock, the reworked forks, the braced swingarm, rearsets and my own setting up of the bike. So how this quallifies myself and others like me as incompetent I don't know.
Maybe i should try slicks which would extend futher the limits of the bike, but at my level I am happy enough on Rennsports and super corsas or Wets.
I could go on but thats enough for now.
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