Daytona Supercross

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Rider

Those bikes are ruined, They will be cleaned up and sold, they wont be reused.

How come?

[Rider]

Originally Posted by marko138

How come?

You will never get the sand and dirt out of all the moving parts. It's cheaper to remove the bolt on upgrades sell the old bike and get a new bike.

Those bikes will require the forks to be rebuilt, brakes are shot, clutches are shot, motor has a very good possibility of having dirt in the cylinder. Yes they rebuild this engines after every race, but the cylinder is likely scored and will need to be bored out (Nikasil is not cheap.. ), valves are probably bent form being over heated.. Since most of those riders are factory backed the bikes cost nothing.

[marko138]

Thats interesting.

[fpzx10]

Hmm. Learn something new every day

[Rider]

Originally Posted by marko138

Thats interesting.

If you look at that pic of Chad Reed (top pic) he is sitting there because he toasted his clutch. That never happens on a dry track. That mud fucks up your bike badly. You could here the engines bogging down from sucking in a little bit of muddy water. If I was a privateer, I never would have run that race.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Rider

If you look at that pic of Chad Reed (top pic) he is sitting there because he toasted his clutch. That never happens on a dry track. That mud fucks up your bike badly. You could here the engines bogging down from sucking in a little bit of muddy water. If I was a privateer, I never would have run that race.

Good point.

[Cutty72]

It's amazing what some of the privateer racers can do on limited funds, compared to the factory riders

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by Cutty72

It's amazing what some of the privateer racers can do on limited funds, compared to the factory riders

Seriously... this is true is all motorsports... the fact that some of those guys are running anywhere close to factory riders, when riding with 1% of the budget, really is impressive. Often it identifies a rider who is soon going to pick up a deal/sponsors...

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by ceo012384

Seriously... this is true is all motorsports... the fact that some of those guys are running anywhere close to factory riders, when riding with 1% of the budget, really is impressive. Often it identifies a rider who is soon going to pick up a deal/sponsors...

I guess the addage is true... 95% rider, 5% bike.

[ceo012384]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I guess the addage is true... 95% rider, 5% bike.

Yeah, prime example, the link OTB found about the dude who dumped the desmosedici RR right out of the dealer lot


Not to mention the fact that there are dudes at NHIS running TD laptimes 20 seconds faster than me on bikes with less than half the horsepower. Yikes...