Machine Eligibility Questions.
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RE: Machine Eligibility Questions.
You would have to check with someone like cargo or Tel. I know my brother was out with the 600 but he had a ride in the junior and the lightweight so had to practice on the junior plates with the juniors.
Unfortunately since I decided to sit things out after the first practice session and couldn’t really get into the pits I can’t remember. Thinking about it, you might be right. Having said that it's no guarantee that it will be the same this year!

Everyone’s entitled to there opinion. Personally I don’t think Ryan can go much faster even if he was pushed and if it’s dry you may well see the overall race pace of the Pattons hampered by the change of tyre rule they had last year. Ultimately if Ryan’s capable of going that much faster why didn’t he win the Junior classic as well?
Going back 10-15 years it wasn’t that uncommon for only the top 8 to get replicas I seem to recall 1 year where only the top 3 or 4 got replicas.
As a result the following year they changed the requirement for replicas from the winners to the average of the top 3 (it has since been changed back). I won a replica that year and you know what until we worked out that I was inside what would have been the replica time of the winner alone it felt very hollow.
It’s taken them 10 years of development, several course improvements and professional riders to only just better Bob Heath’s old lap record. So if Bob had carried on how fast would he have been going by now? Would he have still been winning? Almost certainly! Would only a handful of people been winning replicas? I suspect so.
Ultimately if these professionals can go a lot faster so be it, I doubt they can. At the end of the day Alan Oversby has done 107mph lap and I believe he is capable of that sort of race average in the dry. How many of your average Manx competitors would be on replica pace for that sort of speed?

You’ve only got to go to a CRMC meeting to see how big the gap between front and back is at circuit racing. At Scarborough the Matin’s, Palmer’s and Lougher’s didn’t disappear into the distance they were kept honest by the likes of Oversby. They don’t ride the bikes all they time and they don’t know how to get the best from them.

I'll finish it one day!
(This post was last modified: 17-02-2009, 02:37 PM by smokey125.)
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Machine Eligibility Questions. - by sqwelch - 09-02-2009, 12:29 AM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Tomcat - 09-02-2009, 10:34 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by sqwelch - 10-02-2009, 06:51 AM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Tel - 11-02-2009, 10:53 AM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by cargo - 11-02-2009, 03:51 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Tomcat - 12-02-2009, 09:37 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by cregnybaa - 12-02-2009, 11:31 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Rich - 13-02-2009, 11:06 AM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by smokey125 - 16-02-2009, 02:38 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by cregnybaa - 16-02-2009, 11:36 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by sqwelch - 17-02-2009, 09:22 AM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by smokey125 - 17-02-2009, 02:29 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by cargo - 17-02-2009, 02:57 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Tomcat - 13-05-2009, 07:08 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Carolynn - 13-05-2009, 08:10 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by cargo - 13-05-2009, 08:25 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Tomcat - 06-06-2009, 03:50 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Gstarron - 07-06-2009, 11:37 AM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Tomcat - 08-06-2009, 07:13 PM
RE: Machine Eligibility Questions. - by Gstarron - 17-05-2009, 03:16 AM



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