Because I just can't get enough smites..

[benprobst]

Good question. About the time the s2r motor needs freshening up, say 2-3 years, I figure I'm going to have developed as a rider pretty much as much as I ever will. At that point it'll be fairly simple to take that bike to 115-ish, if there's even any point to it. Until then, though, I figure I'll get way more out of racing right now if I try to be as competive as I can on what I got.

BTW, are you running lightweight this year?

Edit: Just realized you were responding to MacoP. Whatever, my answer stands in the other context.

Ill be around. Putting a bike together now that should be pretty special. And not special like you're special, special in the good way. 

[benprobst]

Unfortunately, it's not in the budget for this year.   

Thats kind of my point. Racing is racing, if you're following the class rules, the guy with the right combination of money and talent will always win. That equation can be balanced with an abundance of either. If youre not talented enough to win on a slow bike then better have some money or find a new class. Those wicked fast Bimotas are built to the letter of the rules. they are brutally fast, but I think at most tracks a talented rider on an SV built to similar or exceeding spec will be competitive with anything out there. Those monster Bimotas still arent really going any faster than SS guys at a lot of the southern tracks. Put one of the suzuki cup guys on a 95 hp 310 lb SV with the right parts in the right places and there isnt anything that outclasses that combination. You/they may not win all of the races, but you will be competitive if you have the talent.

[MACOP1104]

Thats kind of my point. Racing is racing, if you're following the class rules, the guy with the right combination of money and talent will always win. That equation can be balanced with an abundance of either. If youre not talented enough to win on a slow bike then better have some money or find a new class. Those wicked fast Bimotas are built to the letter of the rules. they are brutally fast, but I think at most tracks a talented rider on an SV built to similar or exceeding spec will be competitive with anything out there. Those monster Bimotas still arent really going any faster than SS guys at a lot of the southern tracks. Put one of the suzuki cup guys on a 95 hp 310 lb SV with the right parts in the right places and there isnt anything that outclasses that combination. You/they may not win all of the races, but you will be competitive if you have the talent.

I hear what you're saying.  I guess I can afford a WERA SV superbike but not a CCS SV supebike (the air cooled 1000s are limited to SS mods in WERA LW SBK).  In SBK I understand what you're saying but that Bimota in LWSS is just too much bike.  My opinion based on LWSS being set up as the most affordable place to race.
     

[benprobst]

I hear what you're saying.  I guess I can afford a WERA SV superbike but not a CCS SV supebike (the air cooled 1000s are limited to SS mods in WERA LW SBK).  In SBK I understand what you're saying but that Bimota in LWSS is just too much bike.  My opinion based on LWSS being set up as the most affordable place to race.
     

I agree, I have alway thought they should keep the big bikes out of SS, but its a slippery slope if you start that.