"Exercise restraint and discipline, only responding to posts from legit customers and those with constructive positive intent, you will find that the handgrenades explode harmlessly. You have many satisfied customers who are happy to have the parts you've made. My suggestion to you is keep making good parts, keep getting more customers, take care of them and let them speak for you."
"Exercise restraint and discipline, only responding to posts from legit customers and those with constructive positive intent, you will find that the handgrenades explode harmlessly. You have many satisfied customers who are happy to have the parts you've made. My suggestion to you is keep making good parts, keep getting more customers, take care of them and let them speak for you."
It already has a hyybrid chain/gear cam drive. Sounds like they replaced the chain portion. I can see the FIM telling them that they cannot use it until it is available as a kit for street riders, although in the early 90's kawasaki converted the ZX-7 to gear drive and that kit was all but unobtainable unless you had the last name Muzzy.
“The method of cam drive must remain as homologated unless a complete kit is available through normal commercial channels. These kits must be available in significant quantity and be listed in the racing spare parts book.”
“Aftermarket or modified cam drive components are allowed, however the cam drive must be in the homologated location and the system must be as homologated.”
All Aprilia has to do is list it as available in the race kit, slap a completely silly price on it (10000€), show inspectors they have a number in their warehouse and they are good to roll. They've been in racing for decades and know perfectly well how things work.
PS: didn't Honda do a similar thing on the VF750F/Interceptor they were using in the AMA SBK class in the early '80s? I seem to recall the bikes used by Baldwin and Merkel had all sorts of frighteningly expensive parts back in the days (titanium valves and con rods, magnesium carburetors etc) including a gear driven cam conversion kit.
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It already has a hyybrid chain/gear cam drive. Sounds like they replaced the chain portion. I can see the FIM telling them that they cannot use it until it is available as a kit for street riders, although in the early 90's kawasaki converted the ZX-7 to gear drive and that kit was all but unobtainable unless you had the last name Muzzy.
IIRC, Muzzy got away with it because kawi already had bosses cast into the cases for gear shafts, thus no case modifying was needed.
Technically they were available to the public since Muzzy was selling his "Raptor" kit racebikes, which included the gear driven cams.
The 'priler is a nice bike , but if they indeed begin to use full geared cams for the racebike , then in my book the (chained cam) machine available to the public isn't the genuine plantform on which the sbk contender is supposed to be based , and therefore isn't worth the price . For a gearhead the type of cam drive is vital to the character of the motor and to the identity of the bike as it relates to the actual wsbk .
The 'priler is a nice bike , but if they indeed begin to use full geared cams for the racebike , then in my book the (chained cam) machine available to the public isn't the genuine plantform on which the sbk contender is supposed to be based , and therefore isn't worth the price . For a gearhead the type of cam drive is vital to the character of the motor and to the identity of the bike as it relates to the actual wsbk .
"Exercise restraint and discipline, only responding to posts from legit customers and those with constructive positive intent, you will find that the handgrenades explode harmlessly. You have many satisfied customers who are happy to have the parts you've made. My suggestion to you is keep making good parts, keep getting more customers, take care of them and let them speak for you."
The rules state: “The method of cam drive must remain as homologated unless a complete kit is available through normal commercial channels. These kits must be available in significant quantity and be listed in the racing spare parts book.”
Now maybe he'll be interested in gear driven cams for his highly modified VTR want a be RC51...
Poor Larry, my VTR is an improved version of Honda's design with no aspirations of becoming an RC51 (if I wanted an RC51, I would just go out and buy one). You seem obsessed with this virtual thing, going on and on about the new R1 being a virtual V4 when in fact, it's just an improved I4. Wanting to improve something does not mean wanting to turn it into something else. Just because you are trying to turn your 45 into a virtual race-winning motorcycle (something it failed rather miserably at way back in the nineties) does not mean we are all guided by the same obsession....
Aprilia cheating in World Superbike....
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