(27-02-2010, 01:43 AM)ev fan Wrote: Sorry (malcom and) if i caused offence to you sticky - promise it was not a personal attack...

Couple of points:
1. the truth is no-one can say for sure what the answer is... lithuim batteries is today, who knows what tomorrow will hold, i read an article a few months ago about nano batteries which could be made out of a paper like substance... unless people invest in innovation of all sorts, we will have no solutions when we need them.

2. efficiency in electric motors are 93% or higher, no combustian engine will match that whether burning oil or blue algae (btw, how does mass production of Blue algae affect the delicate balance of the local ecosystem?)...I read that many lessons learnt from the TT race last year are already being applied to mark 2 modals - the Motoczysz bike is 90% new, Agni claim to have better motors and batteries... racing improves the breed and this particular this race has proven very effective. In fact the electric bikes are demonstrating a pretty steep improvement curve when Pro Stocks can only eke out incremental improvement.

3. Why does it matter that people who were not at the TT say how great the TTXGP was and how fantastic and innovative the IOM is for hosting it and how wonderful and useful the race has been at driving forward technology? It is good PR for the whole Bike industry. mainstream press only cover motorbikes when some idiot has done something stupid! why knock a good news story?

4. clip from the race - i think it looked awsome, I am sorry it didn;t appeal to you but it was not boring... at least not to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=devfPUUWwjo

grid iron? you lost me.... who? my online name is EV fan...

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PS. music on the clip is cheesy, but other than i had no complaints during the TTXGP, except that it would have been way better if we had had more teams with more bikes, roll on 2010, 3 crowns, 19 races worldwide!! woooo hooooo

The grid-iron thing refers to a guy who has a very similar writing style to you who had a pop at me on another forum. I thought you might have been him (or her...)

I genuinely believe that to properly comment on how entertaining TTxGP was (or wasn't) then you had to be there - were you? I was and actually paid very close attention to the whole thing, just in case I needed to change my mind, but I what I saw was a spectacle (for want of a better word) that had no business being at the TT. My reasons being that the entry was tiny (13) and would have been smaller still but for the rules on qualifying being ignored. Despite the short duration of the race it was a strung out affair with no battles either on track or on timing and it was slow - very slow. One guy managed a respectable lap - everyone else lapped at speeds that a halfway capable driver could probably achieved in an entry spec hatchback car. I'm sure it looked better on the DVD - marvellous what a bit of clever editing can do.

It costs a major chunk of my annual disposable income to do my two and a bit weeks at the TT and that brings with it a certain level of expectation. TTxGP simply wasn't good enough - not in any respect - and I doubt it's successor will be either. I suppose in short from the point of view of someone (ie: me) who was first exposed to the TT as a wide eyed kid in the mid 60s and who's been going ever since, TTxGP was sterile and soulless and even if they ever do get a grid of 80 bikes lapping at 120mph it will never, ever have that almost indefinable thing that made me fall in love with racing. And I know I'm not alone in feeling that way...