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NateDogg
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motorcycle racing is some of the cheapest form of racing you can get into. Rules alow a person like me or you a chance to go racing with liminted resources. But just like all other sports, money walks the walk.
So whats the purpose of this? I don't know about the people that will read this but MotoGP this year is absouutly great. Being the avid Ducati enthusiast that I am. I am thrilled that Ducati has come in and showed some mussle being rught up there for a win. If you don't know, Ducati is just a Fraction of the companies of the Big 4 Japanesse. So why is Yamaha and especially Suzuki, Kawasaki can't quite keep the pase of Honda?
Kawi, I just don't know about them, they do thinks awful different and I can't cope for their reasonings sometimes.
Suzuki, They make the gxr1000 close to 160hp from the factory, yet there GP bike is blamed not to have the horsepower. I for one don't buy that. There is such thing as too much horsepower and horsepower in unusable places. Kenny Roberts has described his bike as unrideable. I would love to see its power curve, I bet it hits like a ton of bricks.
In combined with the little talked about subject of traction control, the whole package just doesn't work together. Traction control in bikes is vastly different than cars. First off, bike traction control does not use ABS, many cars strobe the brakes on the wheel that slips. This would conclude that the control is a system that controls only engine output. Because of the fact that throttle imput on a bike is so important,it would have to be super sensitive. This would require ALOT of development. The first GP bike rumored to have the system was the cube. When Edwards first took to the cube he crashed and mentioned the delay in the fly by wire throttle as a possible cause. Others have noticed the Yamaha with a "misfire" a sure sign of the system.
More to come....
So whats the purpose of this? I don't know about the people that will read this but MotoGP this year is absouutly great. Being the avid Ducati enthusiast that I am. I am thrilled that Ducati has come in and showed some mussle being rught up there for a win. If you don't know, Ducati is just a Fraction of the companies of the Big 4 Japanesse. So why is Yamaha and especially Suzuki, Kawasaki can't quite keep the pase of Honda?
Kawi, I just don't know about them, they do thinks awful different and I can't cope for their reasonings sometimes.
Suzuki, They make the gxr1000 close to 160hp from the factory, yet there GP bike is blamed not to have the horsepower. I for one don't buy that. There is such thing as too much horsepower and horsepower in unusable places. Kenny Roberts has described his bike as unrideable. I would love to see its power curve, I bet it hits like a ton of bricks.
In combined with the little talked about subject of traction control, the whole package just doesn't work together. Traction control in bikes is vastly different than cars. First off, bike traction control does not use ABS, many cars strobe the brakes on the wheel that slips. This would conclude that the control is a system that controls only engine output. Because of the fact that throttle imput on a bike is so important,it would have to be super sensitive. This would require ALOT of development. The first GP bike rumored to have the system was the cube. When Edwards first took to the cube he crashed and mentioned the delay in the fly by wire throttle as a possible cause. Others have noticed the Yamaha with a "misfire" a sure sign of the system.
More to come....