Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Desmodue Class C ?

[dunlop0_1]

Now the DD bike has sadly departed I wisely bought Paul Pullens 996.
Anyway Toni was booked on at Mallory yesterday and I took the 996 just incase
Weather turned out great so I went on the reserve list and ended up doing the afternoon sessions. Now the 620 was the only bike I have ridden in anger untill now.

Awesome !!!! all that power (well compared to the DD bike) and what a buzz spinning up the rear in the dry.

So never mind Golden era Racing can we please have

Desmodue Class C for all 996 bikes
or Desmoquattro Class A?

Cos I really miss racing already.

[Cranker V2]

Hmmm, golden era class............That sounds interesting.......

[Gbyte666]

Yea Id enter some of that. Love to give my 996 a go.

Craig

[ChrisBushell]

Ok guys, if you think it is a good idea, then you need to get 25 people to agree with you and then get them to sign up for a series of lets say 8 meetings per year.

Rules could be kept fairly simple, but would have to include a HP and torque limit to be checked by dyno after every race. Tyres would need to include wets and probably something like Super Corsas - so you are into two sets of wheels (mag ones not allowed).

Main thing would be to stop people spending money on engine work!

Chris

[antonye]

Originally Posted by ChrisBushell

Main thing would be to stop people spending money on engine work!

Surely this would be, to a degree, eliminated by having dyno runs?
You could still tune an engine to give you plenty of torque but if the power limit is capped it would stop you going too mad?

[Cranker V2]

Hottrax are doing a golden Era series, as are Thundersport.............

[ChrisBushell]

Originally Posted by antonye

Surely this would be, to a degree, eliminated by having dyno runs?
You could still tune an engine to give you plenty of torque but if the power limit is capped it would stop you going too mad?

Ant,

We have looked at 4 valve options a few times now, a part of which ended up in the 848 series.

Given all of the parts and work that you can do to these engines, then you have to set really tight power and torque limits - that way apart from basic blue printing there is no reason to spend any large lumps of cash. If you dont then in the words of John Hackett - how much can you afford to spend!

Chris

[Bionicle]

Originally Posted by dunlop0_1

Now the DD bike has sadly departed I wisely bought Paul Pullens 996.
Anyway Toni was booked on at Mallory yesterday and I took the 996 just incase
Weather turned out great so I went on the reserve list and ended up doing the afternoon sessions. Now the 620 was the only bike I have ridden in anger untill now.

Awesome !!!! all that power (well compared to the DD bike) and what a buzz spinning up the rear in the dry.

So never mind Golden era Racing can we please have

Desmodue Class C for all 996 bikes
or Desmoquattro Class A?

Cos I really miss racing already.

Wow if i had known that selling my 996 would have opened up such a debate on a new race series i might have been enclined to leave it sitting in the garage, No offence Neil and im sure your post was in semi Jest

My views on this are quiet simple (that might be due to my simple minded nature)

Grids in this years DD have been quiet small so rather than trying to get a new series off the ground (to the possible detrement of the present series) we should look at getting more entrants for the present series. there has been a lot of interest shown at most of this years meetings by people wanting to join DD and i believe quiet a few people who are moving up to class A have found buyers for their class B bikes, this has to be a good thing because it could mean a larger Class A group and an influx of new riders into class B, this will hopefully lead to a larger grid next year (i still maintain we need two grids or let the class A bikes have a 5-10 second head start) the only way to achiev this is to have more bikes on the grid

I am sure discussions for next years DD series are already on going tring to add a new class into the mix could complicate things.

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