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General Discussion / Re: Help moto retro illustrated

« on: March 24, 2010, 05:55:26 PM »

Have you seen the photo of king kenny's museum out back of his house in amcn, plenty of fine looking machinery in there

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Suzuki / Re: Project RM175F

« on: March 22, 2010, 06:19:44 PM »

I'm guessing it is meant to be curved, just looks odd nowadays

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Suzuki / Re: Project RM175F

« on: March 22, 2010, 03:10:39 PM »

Assembled up it all looks a lot better, even the frame loop isn't that noticable now that the shrouds etc are in place. Are you going to do something about flattening out the seat to smooth the lines or are you rather short in the legs?

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General Discussion / Re: VMX #41 is not far away now...

« on: March 16, 2010, 06:58:27 PM »

Or in about a month for us kiwis who get it from the bookshop :'(

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Suzuki / Re: The End of Suzuki ????

« on: March 16, 2010, 06:48:22 PM »

Weren't    GM and Suzuki in bed at some time.

Thats where Suzuki's problem came from, GM was losing bulk cash through playing finance company & came up with the idea of telling Suzuki you either buy our shares back or we dump them on the sharemarket which will effectively kill your company. They had no choice but to fork out the money if they wanted to stay in business

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General Discussion / Re: Funnies/Jokes

« on: March 15, 2010, 05:41:37 PM »

Are you sure thats only the british goverment?

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General Discussion / Re: $3500 top end overhaul

« on: March 13, 2010, 05:10:46 PM »

What bites the manufacturers etc is tracks getting closed due to excessive noise, unfortunately the noise created by thumpers travels a lot further. I remember reading a article in mag from the states a few years ago about practise tracks banning certain blue/white bikes in order to stay open.
No tracks means no sales

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Bike Talk / Re: Packaging power - 2T Vs 4T

« on: March 13, 2010, 10:53:09 AM »

So the moral there is you need a 500% capacity advantage to outrun a RS125 in a straight line & holding a line is almost impoosible on a SV650

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Suzuki / Re: 125-B alternate swingarm bush's

« on: March 10, 2010, 07:15:06 PM »

Problem with needles is that they need to rotate in a oil bath rather than the small amount of back & forward motion that they get in a swingarm pivot

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General Discussion / Re: An Observation on Junior Motocross

« on: March 10, 2010, 03:56:09 PM »

Not to mention works his ass off to pay for everything as well

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Suzuki / Re: TM400 for young Frosty.

« on: March 05, 2010, 07:48:41 PM »

Obviously have vastly different rules surrounding those wrist breaker lever guards, they're a big no no here for mx. Couldn't agree more about that butt ugly pipe guard

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General Discussion / Re: V8 Races O.S. - Why? Sorry not bike related

« on: March 01, 2010, 07:55:31 PM »

Many people I have spoken to are adamant that the cars run the 6.0L GenIV and 5.4 Boss engines, however last time I checked they were still running 5.0L Chevs and Windsors, pretty close if not the same as NASCAR engines.

When did either manufacturer last sell a 5 litre car, it's my understanding as well that the engines are NASCAR based & have been for the best part of 10 years.

The comments on changing demoghaphics are probably spot on, most younger people couldn't give a toss about a 2 make series running v8's, they'd much rather see & hear turbo &/or rotary cars battling it out

Any time rule makers keep changing rules for parity reasons the spectacle seems to decrease, 1 team guesses right & gets a head start on the rest who struggle to catch them for most of the season so then the rules get changed again. Formula 1 is best example of this closely followed by motogp & their spec class called moto2

Not sure how the average fan can alter this though

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Suzuki / Re: TM/TS pistons and crank. What's the difference?

« on: March 01, 2010, 05:34:20 PM »

Aren't Pro-x owned by the same people as wiseco, read an article a few years ago that said most piston manufacturers were part of the same group of companies. From memory vertex, arias & possibly wiseco were the same. Can anyone confirm that?

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General Discussion / Re: V8 Races O.S. - Why? Sorry not bike related

« on: March 01, 2010, 06:06:45 AM »

Have a look at where all the newer world championship races are, all new circuits in the middle east that get no spectators but pay the series owners well. The night time motogp race is the perfect example but I guess at least the riders are not battling heat exhaustion, TV rights are where its at for these guys
V8supercar,Dorna etc are all the same, as long as the circuit owners are prepared to pay them they'll send them the entertainment & nail anyone financially who refuses to go

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General Discussion / Re: V8 Races O.S. - Why? Sorry not bike related

« on: February 28, 2010, 05:41:31 PM »

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You aussies & us kiwis don't pay enough to stage a race, probably get paid more to put on either of those races than for the rest of the series.