Baylistic

According to MCN today ;

WORLD SUPERBIKE champion Troy Bayliss has unofficially broken the South African superbike lap record at Kyalami – on a standard Ducati 1098 road bike!
As if any further proof was needed that Troy Bayliss is a bit special when it comes to riding motorcycles this latest story shows he can, in his own words, certainly “ride around in circles OK for an old bloke.”
Bayliss logged a best time on a 1098S – fitted only with a Termignoni exhaust system, standard Ohlins suspension and an uprated ECU was still on road-legal Pirelli Dragon Supercorsa tyres.
The best lap time set in the South African series is a 1:48.2s – compared to Bayliss’s best time of 1:47.04s on the 1098S.
Bayliss’s best time is just three seconds off the old WSB lap record set by Carl Fogarty in 2000 on a 998.


the SASB are either ..... or the new 1098 is a bit of an animal. Go Troy.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (baldylocks @ Dec 2 2006, 10:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>According to MCN today ;

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Bayliss’s best time is just three seconds off the old WSB lap record
3 seconds! thats an eternity! u must mean 3/10ths of a second.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (frosty58 @ Dec 2 2006, 03:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'> 3 seconds! thats an eternity! u must mean 3/10ths of a second.


3 seconds on an almost stock road bike against a full works ducati on slicks is pretty good even if it isn't a typo error

yeah it's good. but it's not inpressive.

It's on road tyres Frosty. Sure it's got a hundred cc's and a few years on the bike Foggy used, but it's still basically stock bike on road tyres vs. Factory bike on slicks.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (baldylocks @ Dec 3 2006, 01:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>he can, in his own words, certainly “ride around in circles OK for an old bloke.”

gotta love the guy