MotoAmerica | 2024 | Silly Season

Max rode for Brendan at MadMonkeyMoto last year on the Indian bagger and on Thrashed Bike's R1 in Superbike. he had a good time!! more laps is always better than less laps!!!
tim

 

Good question - would like to know how many and why/why not. Found about it myself from RW.

I seriously think that demographic doesn't read anything with any focus at all outside its market. A mainstream motorcycle magazine editor told me that after focusing far more coverage on that market (Because "iTs sO pOpUlaR") not only didn't gain any readership, but actually lost some.

 

Nobody in the USA wants fully faired sport bikes any more. Its a fad that is winding down. I hate baggers, too, but if we want roadracing to survive in the USA, its time to start thinking out of the box.

 

Let's go back to nakeds! I've still got my '81 KZ1000 Superbike....

 

This too. The 883 had no fairings, electronics, ecu mapping, shifter cut out, etc., etc. So simplicity at its finest, can that be said for a 400 Ninja? And most if not all of the paddock heat cycled the race rear tire like they do in auto racing.

And didn't someone mentioned fairings on bikes are becoming less prevalent?

 

and that’s just the sales price, I have taught for Harley many times and every dealer I’ve worked at the bikes have like 1-8k in markup plus super high fees and other just made up fees, to where people are paying 50-60k for some of those baggers out the door. I’m amazed they sold them as long as they did for how bad the performance to dollar ratio is.

 

definitely. Bagger racing is becoming more popular. At the Harley dealer I was teaching at I noticed customers and employees actually sometimes knew who Kyle Wyman even was, which blew my mind. If they didn’t know riders or what MotoAmerica is they knew what AMA racing was or at least the existence of performance baggers and wanted to talk about it and they seemed into the parts.

I have only met probably 4 people in the wild that knew what MotoAmerica was/watch it and thought it was so cool to race in it

 

Honestly BRL at Pitt this spring was wild. They had to move the schedule around to (among other reasons) move the bagger races later because there was so many people stuck at the gate trying to get in to watch, almost all on Harleys...

 

When does Yamaha come out with a Star bagger racer???

 

Just strip the fairings off the Yamaha/Ducati/Suzuki Superbikes and put bags and Harley / Indian Stickers on em . Thats pretty much what they did to those bikes.

 

I talked to Tige about letting the FJR1300 in baggers ( and really acted serious ) ..... it techically is one, and MotoA could use their ECU magic, ala GSXR750, for balancing.... he just glared and me and said "NOPE... Yamaha already has enuff here".

 

Boomerism? All that “okay boomer” is some of the laziest and also stupidest insults for a gen z lack wit to try.
I’m gen X, artard.

 

For those looking for the NextGen Bagger with sound system. I found the guy

▶️ Watch this reel https://www.facebook.com/reel/1035195134470938?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&mibextid=PpiIUg

 

Bmw should join w their K1600bagger

 

Yeah, that one actually handles good out of the box!

 

Whippersnapper

 

Baby boomers, selling you rumors of their history
Forcing youth away from the truth of what's real today
The kids of today should defend themselves against the 70's

 

Outside of GTP how many paid seats are there. I'm guessing near 0. It is the way of motorsports. The first barrier to entry is $.
2024 WeatherTech Championship Team Tracker as of Jan. 4
https://www.imsa.com/news/2024/01/0...11T2Cc4kdnOxxFUyxQg4LkqACzc7vI-LIj8ZXkySY_pfs

 

I don't know if this had been mentioned here but BMW gave Mladin a street K1600 to run around on in AUS.

No, seriously.

 

And so far he really likes it.