MotoAmerica changes for 2018

I take offense to that Mr. "Brand new pasta monster every other year", my SV is far from clapped out!

 

Agreed - for an also ran like me it might be a way to do a "bucket list" one off round someday with the equipment I already have if they didn't limit the year.

 

The devil is in the details. Are we talking Ed Key level Super bikey? Carbon and TI goodness everywhere.
It would be fun to build one if someone else was paying for it.

 

I'm not digging the pro twins.

Keep the pro in professional racing.

 

Got it, so need to repaint my 13 year old bike

Looking forward to see what they announce for what bikes will be allowed to run

 

Can you say FZ07R!!!!! Hell yea. Andy Palmer at AP MotoArts was hinting about this to me. Not sure if he had any inside insight or not.

 

Nothing you will ride.

 

It will be interesting to see what Ducati is legal for the class. Let's see if they learned anything at all from the Pro Thunder days.

 

Time for a 650 Hawk comeback

 

Yeah right! I'm sure some fool will try it. Nothing else will have a chance if they let 4v Ducatis into the mix.

 

He's known for a while.
Already has a 100hp FZ07

 

if you want to run you're 10 year old sv, fine and that's what WERA is for.. but i believe MA is introducing this new class as well as the changes the 300 class to push motorcycle sales to hopefully get more manufacturers involved.. which is what we need to grow the national series. again, I may be completely wrong, but have to imagine that is the intent.. it blows my mind that you race and still don't seem to get that. lol.

 

Luckily no 565s [emoji23]


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Real ones or the 565/580/ could be a 600 - can't remember which motor I put in it and sold the other one to somebody else even though it wasn't mine to sell...

 

And probably will need more
Not sure made in Japan bike will be hot ticket.

 

I wonder if they worked with ktm on this as well as folding the cup series. My understanding is ktm is offering an out of the box super sport/bike kit for their new twin and it's aimed at the MA series.

 

My dumb question of the day - what are the current year cutoffs for MotoAmerica bikes in say the 600 class? Trying to get a rough idea on what to expect with the twins.

 

If it's a superbike class, any reason the "old" bike just can't run updated body work to appear as the "new" bike?

 

http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com...d=3&moduleid=3004&articleid=11&documentid=154

MA/FIM fudges the years as necessary to work w same models and adds things like require parts updates. For ex, I'm racing an 08 R6 frame w a 12 motor and electronics.

 

Only if it's allowed on the homologation list. Sometimes they rly care about frame years, sometimes they allow parts to be updated (generally more than bodywork).