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Originally posted by lizzie

So I think this is the wrong question:

How about if you phrased the question 'would someone who already has (or even has some other use for) a Monster 620 or a SS600/SS620 and fancies a go then sell their bike and buy a M600 so they could have a go? I very much doubt it. So that would exclude my £2,500 620 Monster riding-mate and a fair number of the possible UKMOC-ers who might be interested. So the cheque already written might have to be torn up.

And I reckon it would be much better from an aesthetic point of view to have Monsters v SSs.

At the risk of seeming argumentative, I think my question is still a valid one, then we would understand whether this would restrict the numbers or not, wouldn't it?

Phrase it any way you like, the question is still fundamentally the same. If the answers yes, then we include them, if its no, then we don't ?????

I also think from an aesthetic perpsective, just running the same type (Monsters or SSs) would be better.

Seems I'm testosterone charged and argumentative now.!!!


OK - Lizzie, to address your "better" question, I'm assuming that the reason that the costs are being kept down is for DSC members to buy (cheaply) a second (or third, fourth etc...) bike for racing and not necessarily to have to sell their main steed to fund a limited racing series. Is this a fair assumption? This bike could alos be used for road use, getting to work etc, but I don't see many selling their 748s, 851s, or the like for a Monnie - do you?

How many people will sell their Monster 620s to get a 600 if the series was restricted to 600s only - not many I'd bet. How many members on this board ride 600 monsters? How many ride 620s?

I'ts open to constructive debate, hence my questioning this.

Perhaps a more important question here is;

Is the objective here to give existing DSC members a race series, or increase DSC membership?

Tim