Is Emil Right In What He Says?

[LesR 139]

On 9/3/2021 at 1:34 AM, Jonny the spud said:

Maybe instead of trying to standardise the engines just handicap the riders like in horse racing?

Bike and rider weighed before the meeting and ballast added to the bike so that they’re all on a level playing field. Simple and effective, no flyweight will spend thousands on tuning if he has to have 10kg or more to his bike 

I think that may work to a degree John, as in FIM events bikes have to weigh a minimum amount, many a long track rider has had to add weigth to his machine to conform to the regs. The riders would still spend out on tuning, because tuning is not just about saving weight, but also a lot of work goes into flowing the head and compression chamber, which is quite expensive.

[jenga 2,998]

its just like cars on the assembly lines in the60s/70s/80s . if you were lucky enough to get a car that was built from tuesday to thursday it would be a good un . 

mondays and fridays were the worst days that a car was built  .

WHY . well fridays the assembly guys were looking forward to the weekend and had other things on their minds , mondays they all came back to work with hand overs and had no idea what they were supposed to do .   

NOW if a person had had a fall out with the management or something and was working his notice . you would often get a noise in the car when turning corners . this was traced to dash board rail .

workers would put a small ball bearing in this rail and every time the car. turned a corner the ball bearing ran in the rail from one side to the other  .

ya dont get that now because they have plastic/moulded dashboards .  

same with engines and other stuff !

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bruiser 120]

Do people really think Ivan Mauger had the same engine parts as everybody else on the market….it’s been going on for years …

[Fromafar 10,338]

10 minutes ago, Bruiser said:

Do people really think Ivan Mauger had the same engine parts as everybody else on the market….it’s been going on for years …

Plenty riders have the top notch machinery,but you have to have the skills to match.

[Bruiser 120]

15 hours ago, Fromafar said:

Plenty riders have the top notch machinery,but you have to have the skills to match.

Too true

[Triple.H. 1,982]

On 9/4/2021 at 10:17 AM, LesR said:

I think that may work to a degree John, as in FIM events bikes have to weigh a minimum amount, many a long track rider has had to add weigth to his machine to conform to the regs. The riders would still spend out on tuning, because tuning is not just about saving weight, but also a lot of work goes into flowing the head and compression chamber, which is quite expensive.

I think what Johnny the spud means is they make it that rider and bike need to be a minimum weight, so most lightweight riders would be brought back onto a more level playing field

Apologies to Mr Ellis in advance if i've grabbed the wrong end of the stick

[waytogo28 2,054]

On 9/2/2021 at 11:10 AM, jenga said:

the end of season AGM will be a proper comedy of errors  and where most of clubs will bail out of speedway .     RIP British speedway

Can't argue with that J. Except that you can be sure that they won,t come up with anything that will improve the quality of racing and pull in new fans. It's always a Time to Tinker event until , as you say they see how few sit at the table.