Speaking of Buell and the AMA/DMG Roadracing Series...

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Tmall

If the rules say they can, the privateers should be doing it and whomping on the buells. If nobody chooses to do it, who's fault is that?

Cause they say they can't, the ducati riders have to use the 848.

[Rider]

AMA is letting the 1098R (1198cc) run in the SBK class. It's not doing too bad considering on the smaller compact tracks you cant get all that power to the ground because the thing wants the wheelie out of every corner.

[z06boy]

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Tmall

Exactly! Its been downhill since they started giving Honda a displacement advantage to run their 2 cylinder bike!

Stupid racing series!

Yea but was the RC-51 the OFFICIAL bike of the AMA?

Oh btw I fucking bitched and called every Nicky Hayden ball licking bastard out on it too! The year that NH won the AMA championship, Mlladin had like 2 or 3 DNFs, one from a tire failure I believe. Like I said the only way Nicki Hayden has ever won any championship is for the really talented guys to have a disastrous season and/or for him to have a huge advantage.

He won the Formula Extreme series on a 900 when the other teams were running 750s

He won Superbike with a 1000cc V-twin (WSBK spec bike with approx 5x Yosh Suzuki's budget btw) against 750cc inline 4s, the top man in the field (Mlladin) had a terrible year and he still barely won.

He won a MotoGp championship on the dominant bike when Rossi had one of his worst seasons ever and still would not have won if Rossi hadn't crashed in the last race.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Rider

I guess thats one way to get Buell to ever win a race.... Make all the bikes in the race a Buell.

Thats if one of them finishes

Tom

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Rider

AMA is letting the 1098R (1198cc) run in the SBK class. It's not doing too bad considering on the smaller compact tracks you cant get all that power to the ground because the thing wants the wheelie out of every corner.

Yea but stock for stock, the Buell makes 146hp and 82 ft/lbs of torque and the average 600 makes what 105 hp and 45 ft/lbs of torque? That's a bit different than the difference between the GSXR1000 and the 1098.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Yea but stock for stock, the Buell makes 146hp and 82 ft/lbs of torque and the average 600 makes what 105 hp and 45 ft/lbs of torque? That's a bit different than the difference between the GSXR1000 and the 1098.

troof. You wouldnt put a ninja 250 and a rgv250 in the same class. At the same time though dmg gave too much advantage

[Rsv1000R]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Yea but stock for stock, the Buell makes 146hp and 82 ft/lbs of torque and the average 600 makes what 105 hp and 45 ft/lbs of torque? That's a bit different than the difference between the GSXR1000 and the 1098.

Are you kidding? I'm pretty sure Superstock 600's are closer to 140hp.

[Rider]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Yea but stock for stock, the Buell makes 146hp and 82 ft/lbs of torque and the average 600 makes what 105 hp and 45 ft/lbs of torque? That's a bit different than the difference between the GSXR1000 and the 1098.

Agreed, I wasn't trying to justify the Buell being in the 600 class, I was trying to say that the Buell "SHOULD" be competitive in the SBK class along with the Duc and it certainly wouldn't be. 1100-1200 Vtwins should easily be capable of competing with 1-4 liter bikes.

Obviously AMA and HD are in bed together so the AMA is doing everything possible to promote Buell and to get them a championship.

[marko138]

Haters of America, all of you.