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Amazing, both being so competitive I must admit I'd thought it might cause a few problems, nice to see it won't.
 
So still no superbike then, then again him and Hutchy have still managed 133mph laps on stockers, put them on proper slicks they'd probably go a bit quicker.
 
AntG said:
So still no superbike then, then again him and Hutchy have still managed 133mph laps on stockers, put them on proper slicks they'd probably go a bit quicker.
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I don't think so and the reason being that they ride ordinary roads with plain tarmac, none of this fancy .... the MotoGP riders get, ie a bit like watching golf bet they wouldn't be better on the courses the average person plays.
 
Theo said:
I don't think so and the reason being that they ride ordinary roads with plain tarmac, none of this fancy .... the MotoGP riders get, ie a bit like watching golf bet they wouldn't be better on the courses the average person plays.
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True, though I reckon it's possible to win the superbike and senior races on a stocker, especially a BMW, Hutchy and Michael can lap a superstock bike faster around there than anyone else including John McGuinness can on a superbike.
 
AntG said:
True, though I reckon it's possible to win the superbike and senior races on a stocker, especially a BMW, Hutchy and Michael can lap a superstock bike faster around there than anyone else including John McGuinness can on a superbike.
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One thing I've always thought about superstock is that here you have a bike thats had minimal alterations to standard road bike format, as far as I can remember you were allowed to change things like foot pegs, exhaust, handlebars and obviously the levers, front and rear suspension, but the front was limited to the internals, you had to use the standard tubes, the tyres were road tyres but cut differently but they had to be road legal.
I think the modern superstock is not that much different to the superbike, just cheaper to make, so people like Hutchings and Dunlop who to be fair to the majority are the standout riders should do better than the average. Just one question are the tyres still limited to legal road tyres or do they run slicks.
 
Theo said:
One thing I've always thought about superstock is that here you have a bike thats had minimal alterations to standard road bike format, as far as I can remember you were allowed to change things like foot pegs, exhaust, handlebars and obviously the levers, front and rear suspension, but the front was limited to the internals, you had to use the standard tubes, the tyres were road tyres but cut differently but they had to be road legal.
I think the modern superstock is not that much different to the superbike, just cheaper to make, so people like Hutchings and Dunlop who to be fair to the majority are the standout riders should do better than the average. Just one question are the tyres still limited to legal road tyres or do they run slicks.
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They are road legal tyres but they have the absolute minimum tread allowed they are really slicks with a few groves cut in them.

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AntG said:
They are road legal tyres but they have the absolute minimum tread allowed they are really slicks with a few groves cut in them.

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Mine had a few more grooves cut than that, but not much more and they were knackered after a day :eek: :giggle:
 
Theo said:
Nice thanks :)

Did you see the John McGuinness one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc6r2-yfl7Q
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Yeah I don't know whether you feel the same but John seems very uncertain about something, usually he's quite confident in himself without appearing brash or arrogant, but recent interviews since the cage removal seem to have a tint of uncertainty.

I've also seen news that Guy Martin will be returning to road racing at Cookstown and Tandragee racing a BSA Rocket 3 in the Classic category.
 
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Yeah I don't know whether you feel the same but John seems very uncertain about something, usually he's quite confident in himself without appearing brash or arrogant, but recent interviews since the cage removal seem to have a tint of uncertainty.

I've also seen news that Guy Martin will be returning to road racing at Cookstown and Tandragee racing a BSA Rocket 3 in the Classic category.
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Yeah I wasn't to sure myself but you've confirmed the way I was thinking. I'd say that when he gets on it if he doesn't feel comfortable its time to hang up those leathers, I feel the little man in his head is telling him what to do already. Very sad but he's a great bloke and better alive than dead.

Woweee I'll go hunt that news down about Guy.
 
Theo said:
Yeah I wasn't to sure myself but you've confirmed the way I was thinking. I'd say that when he gets on it if he doesn't feel comfortable its time to hang up those leathers, I feel the little man in his head is telling him what to do already. Very sad but he's a great bloke and better alive than dead.
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Agreed. I'll go as far as saying even if he had hung up his leathers after his crash, there would have been absolutely no shame. What he's achieved on the TT is legendary.
 
I'm trying to find pics of Guys BSA Rocket 3, without much luck anyone ever seen one?
 
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Agreed. I'll go as far as saying even if he had hung up his leathers after his crash, there would have been absolutely no shame. What he's achieved on the TT is legendary.
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I lost 2 of my best mates in racing and one of them told me, this is my last race as his wife was pregnant and he didn't want to not be there. I was gutted after, his wife lives down the road from me and his daughter is now 24 and a bike nut :eek: I showed her my collection of scars and pics of the plates that hold a significant part of me together, all she did was shrug.
 
Theo said:
I lost 2 of my best mates in racing and one of them told me, this is my last race as his wife was pregnant and he didn't want to not be there. I was gutted after, his wife lives down the road from me and his daughter is now 24 and a bike nut :eek: I showed her my collection of scars and pics of the plates that hold a significant part of me together, all she did was shrug.
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As Michaels book is subtitled "It's in the blood" he won the very race his dad was killed qualifying for less than 48 hours earlier.
 
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As Michaels book is subtitled "It's in the blood" he won the very race his dad was killed qualifying for less than 48 hours earlier.
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The difference being she never knew her dad, she hasn't even got pictures of him racing.
 

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