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Road Racing: Professional: Discussion of Professional Motorcycle Road Racing, such as MotoGP, AMA, World SuperBike, etc. | |||||||
11-16-2003, 7:25 PM
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     Join Date: 06-05-2001 Location: Murder City, Michigan
Bike(s): 2007 RC51 Age: 58 Posts: 8,271
Rep:   (1219) Rep Power: 28
| Re: Damn It's about time. *This 'spec' tire BS and all of the I4 contraints are total bull$hit and they know it. *Pirelli/Ducati has been in everyone's wallets over the past 3 years and it's about time someone said: ENOUGH! A spec tire series is so sort sighted, no one wins but the 'spec' tire company for about one and a half seasons. *After that everyone leaves and there is 'no more series' . . . Give me an RC30, ZXR750, OW01, GSXR750 and a couple of 888s and let's go racing . . . FU#K these guys . . . |
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11-16-2003, 7:25 PM
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 Join Date: 02-19-2002 Location: Albuquerque
Bike(s): V-Strom 650 Posts: 759
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| Re: Damn Quote and also against the idea of restricting tires to a single make so that a tire maker can become World Champion just by buying the title. |
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11-16-2003, 7:42 PM
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| Mr. Brownstone Join Date: 02-07-2002 Location: UT
Bike(s): 05 600RR Posts: 10,531
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| Re: Damn Very sad indeed. World Superbike has been in a downhill spiral for about five years or so, and this was the final straw. The parallells to CART are amazing. Two once great series killed by idiotic decision making regarding rules. The AMA is headed the same direction unless they make some changes, too. It makes me wonder, however, if the FIM helped this along to restore GP as the top level of motorcycle racing. |
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11-16-2003, 11:13 PM
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| Listen Johnny...  Join Date: 06-27-2001 Location: Simi Valley, CA
Bike(s): 05 RC-51 - 03 KTM 525 SMC Age: 32 Posts: 1,236
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 | Re: Damn It's a shame, but I hope that it'll be a wake up call to the FIM. Hard to have a series without bikes going around and around. |
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11-17-2003, 10:05 AM
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  Join Date: 02-10-2002 Location: Hoosierland, USA
Bike(s): CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 Posts: 11,098
Rep: (1302) Rep Power: 31
| Re: Damn So what do you racet types think will happen here? Will there be WSB racing in 2004, or is it done?
__________________ Sith Apprentice CBR929 - VFR800 - VFR800 "There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one..." - Joey Dunlop |
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11-17-2003, 10:27 AM
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| Join Date: 07-27-2001 Location: Louisiana
Bike(s): what's next? Posts: 1,814
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| Re: Damn I predict Ducati will win the WSB title this year. |
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11-18-2003, 2:35 AM
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| Join Date: 02-21-2002 Location: USA
Bike(s): 01 ER 929/ 04 BLK 1000RR Posts: 112
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| Re: Damn I say go ahead and stick a fork in it WSBK is done. |
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11-18-2003, 1:46 PM
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| Join Date: 09-13-2003 Location: Torrance.CA
Bike(s): 98 TLR, 01 G1k, 92 F2 Posts: 101
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| Re: Damn Although I do not agree w/ the new rules for WSB, I understand why they did it(in a since). The attempt was to try to even the playing field and not let one factory team buy the championship, which is pretty much what happend this year w/Factory Ducati & Michelin Partnering. |
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