MotoAmerica | ROUND 07 | Infineon | 12-13 Aug

You should read the rules and then respond. Your missing about half of the bike....

 

No kidding. And I don't know as much as you know, Rick.

 

Ok. So why is the tobc r1 inferior to the westby r1?

 

I do not think that means what you think it means.

 

I don't know shit about the bike but it looks to me like Eslick needs to cut back on the cheeseburgers, and the PBRs...

 

You will see at least one of them on R1 next year....from the way he has been riding, my guess is Gerloff.

 

Graves 2018, 2 sbks, 2 ss1ks, 2 hot rod 600s. Thats what im thinking sounds good.

 

If this is true I really hope somebody else steps up in sstk and the 600s. And that's coming from a bigtime Yamaha fan. Don't want to see 1 team dominate 75% of the classes.

 

Westby, Latus and M4 should do with their SSTK rider what Meen did with Herrin this year.

 

What's that? Scold him for the Belly Pan's of Dirt? Ameen is not that harsh trust me.....

 

I was hoping more along the lines of upgrade their bikes to Superbike-spec. If for no other reason than I just like to see more fancy bits on the bikes

 

They mentioned during the broadcast that westby will be superbike next year

 

Yeah I remember that.....fingers crossed.

 

I hope that works better for them, than it did for Meen and Broaster Chicken. Seems getting those electronics to work at that level is very difficult. Meen has Richard Stamboli, who built his own MotoGP bike, and they seem to still be having problems with the electronics.

Aussie Dave dropped back down to SSTK as well, and so did M4 Suzuki.

 

Richard built his w a Motec system. Much simpler than the Magnelli stuff. From my friends at the pointy end...the MM stuff is very complex

 

I'd be really happy if either MA would do whatever it takes to bring two or three more full factory teams to SBK (Ducati, Kawasaki, Honda, BMW), OR, if they'd go spec ECU so the privateers had a legitimate chance at placing higher than 5th when a Yosh or Graves bike doesn't crash.

 

Doubtful, on the spec ecu....unless World SBK does.

 

And I'm pretty sure Kawasaki threatened to leave it WSBK did that, so it'll never happen.

 

Hahaha. Reminds me of Honda and the GP series

 

I think the struggle is learning the language of the WSBK spec systems. I was told by a rider on a factory bike that the system that they were required to run acted completely different than the MM stuff they had been running. So much so that time was spent just to figure out how to change basic stuff like auto blip and such!