John

As Larry says you seem to be doing a lot of digging, but I think you and some others may have missed the point here. Out of interest were you at Skerries this weekend and did you see anything of what went on?

The first four bikes were to be dynoed; not stripped; at the clubs request as they are allowed to do so. The other three were dynoed without problem, whilst Ryan Farquhar and the members of his team chose not to allow their machine to be dynoyed, thus excluding themselves from the result. They were not disqualified as such as far as I can tell.

The bikes were on the dyno for just a couple of minutes, and no damage was done to the bikes. There were no parts removed from the machines, never mind stripped. There was also no protest made by any other rider. The club chose to dyno these leading machines, as has been the case at several other meetings this year including Dundrod and Tandragee.

If Ryan Farquhar or any other rider for that matter was riding their Supersport (tuned) machine or similar at Skerries, the dyno would have indicated this. If Ryan was on a legal bike surely it would have been a small inconvenience for him to allow this process to take place, unless he had something to hide from the rolling road.

Ryan Farquhar is a fine rider, and has no need to cheat in my mind. Wether he was or he wasn't cheating at Skerries, the episode has left a nasty taste in the mouth and would be better sorted out sooner rather than later, along with the ongoing rift between Farquhar and Ian Lougher.