Weight No More

" ... for $65,000, you could have bought an Open-class superbike for the street that weighed less than a cutting-edge MotoGP prototype ..."

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Making Moto2 Matter ...

"Right now, with the 600cc market shrinking and the 1000cc bikes taking up most of the oxygen in the performance machines atmosphere, the 500cc twin's performance perception could be summed up in two words - beginner bike. New riders are almost apologetic about riding a Ninja 250 or a Yamaha R3. Who's going to go pay to watch them race?"

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Innovation, Regulation, Inference and Speculation (Updated)

" ... the silly and ineffective horse-trading between Dorna and the manufacturers has managed to create a result that has simultaneously made for worse racing and pushed technological innovation in a direction that is further removed from the real world ..."

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p.s. Updated with images of the evolution and dismantling of F1 wings ...

Stuck In The Middle With You ...

"You can’t sell tickets to a race weekend for one 35-minute race, no matter how exciting it might be. The golden eras of motorcycle racing were filled with on-track action for the fans in attendance, and TV audiences won't matter if no promoter will put on a race ..."

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Deep Thinking And Cartridge Forks, Explained ...

The latest episode of Deep Thinking, as well as a couple of spectacular articles on cartridge forks, can be found on Ed's Lindemann Engineering blog:

http://www.le-suspension.com/le-blog/

Go there or be square. What's wrong with squares? They multiply by themselves!

The Line ...

"Blocking says, this is my line, and you have to go around me. Interfering says, the entire track is my line, and I will actively prevent you from using any of it ..."

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What I Have To Race With ...

"Every machine will have strengths and weaknesses compared to the other bikes on the grid. Sometimes, the question becomes, when do I deploy those strengths, and to what extent do I deploy them?"

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