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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Apr 29 2010, 04:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>It's an FIM homologated rev-limit so it applies to WSBK and BSB and any other series that uses FIM homologation procedures. Whether or not they enforce it in WSBK is a debate worth having, hence my obsession with the nearly identical acceleration and top speed across all brands.
I guessed the FIM rev limited existed before I even read the BSB Evo rulebook. I was only 100rpm off. That's how freakin' easy it is if you do the math and you understand the progression of events that have occurred since 2003.
Didn't I say sliding scale since 2004 which would have been 13,200rpm? I found out that the FIM homologate the Suzuki and the Honda at 13,300rpm. That rpm level corresponds almost perfectly with the top speed data from the last couple of years. A week after I proposed this theory, Max Biaggi was on the record talking about how Aprilia had finally achieved the normal performance gains from 2009 to 2010.
Every time someone accuses the Aprilia of being a bit fast in a straight line Biaggi is like "No no please believe me the bike is fast in the corners. We are only the same as everyone else on the straight".
WSBK even has explicit performance indexing in the rulebook for the Ducati, and yet people still insist that the Flamminis would never do anything to make all of the 1000s the same.
No, instead, I must be insane.
I bet my theory is only scraping the surface of all of the things they do during homologation to keep the bike production relevant.
Show me, not what somebody told you.
A guy once told me that his R6 would run 200 mph. A cop told a judge,he clocked an RC51 at 205 mph. I even had a guy tell me he installed a power band in his bike and the damn thing would fly.
The Ducati has 200 more cc. Whats your point
I guessed the FIM rev limited existed before I even read the BSB Evo rulebook. I was only 100rpm off. That's how freakin' easy it is if you do the math and you understand the progression of events that have occurred since 2003.
Didn't I say sliding scale since 2004 which would have been 13,200rpm? I found out that the FIM homologate the Suzuki and the Honda at 13,300rpm. That rpm level corresponds almost perfectly with the top speed data from the last couple of years. A week after I proposed this theory, Max Biaggi was on the record talking about how Aprilia had finally achieved the normal performance gains from 2009 to 2010.
Every time someone accuses the Aprilia of being a bit fast in a straight line Biaggi is like "No no please believe me the bike is fast in the corners. We are only the same as everyone else on the straight".
WSBK even has explicit performance indexing in the rulebook for the Ducati, and yet people still insist that the Flamminis would never do anything to make all of the 1000s the same.
No, instead, I must be insane.
I bet my theory is only scraping the surface of all of the things they do during homologation to keep the bike production relevant.
Show me, not what somebody told you.
A guy once told me that his R6 would run 200 mph. A cop told a judge,he clocked an RC51 at 205 mph. I even had a guy tell me he installed a power band in his bike and the damn thing would fly.
The Ducati has 200 more cc. Whats your point
