What was that about the back wheel?

More from Tony on next week's Wibble Flip Dibble Do.

 

Not exactly a mod, but the big team efforts all blueprint the engines,
don't they?

 

The lack of digits in the vicinity of the front brake lever? ;-)

 

Probably. The TT doesn't really have much in the way of "big teams"
now, apart from TAS Suzuki.

I know in British Supersport, many of the engine builder will buy,
say, 20 conrods, weigh them all, and build the motor with the most
closely matched set.

 

Come back Molly, all is forgiven.

 

As arguments go, that one's quite a clincher.

 

Bah! Everyone knows you can lock the front just by weighting the pegs.

 

No, "blueprinted" *is* production spec! It just means that every
component is bang on the money for the production spec, rather than
having the normal manufacturing tolerances.

 

But you can see from his feet that he's not doing so - in fact he's
using the foot brake pedal, which has been connected up to a linked
system, Honda stylee, to provoke this very argument.

 

#I'm leaving...on a jet plane...don't know when I'll be back again..

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

<rocking chair>

Yup.

<spits terbaccy juice on dawg>

Yup. Here, have some of this corn likker.

<watches sun set over a forest of mobile home TV aerials>

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Daz says...

My penis just shrunk.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Yes, nothing can be done in the way of modification to the original spec
- no gasflowing, no cams, no pistons, nothing. BUT... you are allowed to
rebuild the engine using production components that would give you the
best possible engine that would result if every part was to the design.

That's blueprinting.


You've heard of Monday morning / Friday afternoon cars and bikes?

That's blueprinting in reverse.

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Watching the race on the TV I'm surprised the tyres ever touch the deck.
The GSXR's did look a bit of a handfull compared to the winning R1.
(F1)

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Yes. Anything to make it safe. The engine remains basically standard though.

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The only thing that surprised me was that it wasn't a GS500.
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Thumb brake.

 

It is a fucking superb picture, though - isn't it?

I'd say that was art.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

It's certainly allowed in every proddy class I've heard of (which
doesn't mean there might be some where it's not). It's a good thing
because it means on a particular model there shouldn't be all that much
difference between bikes as far as power output goes. Thus you avoid the
sheer luck factor in having an engine which might be good, might be
crap. If it's bp'd you know it's good.

It's bad in a way because it can cost a lot to do and the teams with the
most money will be able afford it while the lone entrant can't.

And anyway, the rules have to allow it; what happens if your engine
grenades? You rebuild it with allowed parts - no difference there from
blueprinting.

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The problem would be finding a reasonable and workable way to make having an
engine precisely to manufacturer's spec illegal. And some way of easily
discovering such exactitude.