08 LW class rules

[tzracer]

If a 4 stroke is maintained at the same level as a 2 stroke, then a 600 is more work.

How much time and money does it take to do a complete rebuild of a 600 engine? How much can the average rider do themselves (such as servicing valves and heads)? How long to check valve clearence? Leak down (or at least compression) check?

I have raced both 2 and 4 stokes. The 4 stokes were more work overall. The between race checks take longer. Striping and rebuilding during the winter takes longer. Hell, changing wheels takes longer.

[123user]

The average 600 racer is a knob, barely capable of pumping gas... let alone changing wheels and (God forbid) mounting a tire.  What percentage of 600 racers run a full season, even Brian Hall sat out Gateway.  For me, a 600 would be more work because I'd maintain it properly.  Again, the average 600 racer is here for 2.5 years... a 600 can probably run for 2 years on one oil change.  Then the motor would blow and he'd quit.  So, for many the 600 is cheaper.  Nothing is as much work as a "class-killing" Ducati, not even my singles bike.

I still don't understand why 125's are so unpopular... goes back to that "want to go fast" thing. 

[tzracer]

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I still don't understand why 125's are so unpopular... goes back to that "want to go fast" thing. 
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Neither do I. Probably the most fun I have ever had racing a bike.

Probably because there is little room for error, you screw up and you see on the stop watch (seconds, not tenths of a second), there is no extra power to save you. That is what I really like about 125s.

[Ducmarc]

ditto on the 600's  as for my ducati's I just screw them together and go homestead proved it's not the bike but the rider fernando rode my clapped out 900 to third in gt lights and 3rd in thunderbike ( the 748 had a chassis problem)  turning a 1.33 in the tbike race  as a new team owner i'm delighted as a rider I feel like a fat pig I own a 89 rs 125 and its a really neat bike but need a 250 to haul my butt around

[123user]

My feeling is that any of the desmoquatro or testaretta powered bikes are much better engineered than the airheads, after all they're designed to be raced.

[ktd]

Edit :  on reading the rest I think I did the right thing.  Still I am not sure I did the form correct.  Hope they let me know.

OK I didn't read all 14 pages but I think I got the idea..  I'm new to this.  I have an SV Superbike and I just faxed my entry.  I think I entered LW SB with it and Formula 40 LWSB.  To race Formula 40 on Saturday and LW SB on Sunday.  For Summit Point May 3rd.  Did I enter the wrong class?  Honestly I was not sure what I was doing. :(.