Customized Pro Bike Numbers

Its too bad the AMA wont let the riders use the "customized" bike numbers all year, such as was seen on the Yosh bikes in testing, or all of the Moto GP bikes for their season. Gives the look some flair, and not just the kewl "office space" flair. Come Daytona, it will be back to the boring block font.

 

Actually i believe stylized numbers are legit all season long in superbike only

 

What would you be leary about?

 

Yeah, all of them wearing those funny colorful hard hats and those funky looking leather jumpsuits. They must all shop at the same place. It's difficult to know who is who!

 

Well get used to it as it is legal for Superbike in 2008. They have to be pre approved by the AMA before being used.

 

Why get used to it? It doesn't matter to any of us who are not racing that series or another series on the same weekend what Superbike does.

 

The original topic was AMA using stylized numbers it has nothing to do with wera

 

Ok, I misread it or something (or not). I changed it to be more generic for you.

 

Mongo i totally understand what bbs I am on. Just was replying with the facts as they pertained to the original post. I also know that WERA is not a podunk series. Just was saying what i read in the AMA rulebook.

 

I know the AMA told Yosh to get rid of the blue outline they haad around the 1's on Spies bike before and put a "normal" number on it

 

That was waaaayy back in 2007. 2008 is a new year w/new rules. :up:

 

anybody know how podunk got to be used to refer to small towns/things ?

 

Mongo -

I've scored a race with the rules now.. What's it like with the side plates.. I was looking at thenew Honda SBK. That's almost too low if passing your at 120mph..

 

I am not WERA but In the AMA, the side plates will be helpful at some tracks for our finish line camera but others where bikes are leaned over, like daytona, then the # on top of the tail was helpful and in the case of daytona, we will have no way other than looking at rider gear, to determine the rider.

I think sides are still more readable than tails overall, but some places they will be a problem. Even today, the normal tail sections can be issues at certain tracks depending on the view of the rider and the corner etc.

 

I greatly prefer 'normal' numbers from a cornerworker aspect. At times the only differnce that you can tell is a leather/bike color & am/ex from the plate colors. Plus more than once I have had to piece together pieces of body work from a big off to determine a bike number to call it in. Get to fancy and that gets hard. On that a Random note: Calling control after you frantically asked for an ambulance NOW, it is bad form when they control asks for a number to say "Wait, I am still busy picking up body parts"