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The only reason my Seeley 850 is ever anything like competitive around Winton, is the guys cannot get the big bikes wound up. There are more corners than straights. With the Seeley, I am on the gas much longer. An RS125 Honda would kill it. - It is a riders' circuit, not a power circuit.
 
acotrel said:
I think that if you rode Hopkin's bike, you would need to be prepared to accept injuries as being normal. It would be OK as long as the arrangement was not 'you bend it, you mend it'.
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I wouldn't race it, just get a feel for what it is like.

I don't have the killer instinct for racing with a bunch of guys that will do anything they can get away with to win.
 
acotrel said:
The thing which puzzles me, are the guys who need 200 BHP to get their jollies. It is extremely difficult and expensive to build a superbike from scratch, and full credit to those who do it. But building a single cylinder four-stroke racer from scratch, can almost be done in your own back yard. When I was a kid, some guys built 125 cc and 250cc single cylinder racers, in which every component was hand-made. I never understood why they did that. But now I see sense in it. There was one bike in particular - the Hunter Picaninny was a 250cc Manx. And I think the REG was a small Velocette.
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Al a photo of the REG for you. You might notice a couple of things
Chris
 

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It was a twin. My bad.
I seem to remember there was a 250cc Velocette single. In those days, most of us did not even bother to watch the smaller capacities race. My friends had a Moto Parilla. Dick Reid was riding the A1R Kawasaki and the 250cc Parilla was up there with it - which surprises me. What I am trying to point out, is you don't need a 200 BHP superbike to have fun. Personally, I would not even try to race one. In the end, the difference between winning and losing is only a very small difference in speed. The fact that those speeds are much higher in some race classes is pretty irrelevant.
When I watch those on-board videos, I always watch the point at which the track converges in the distance and the speed with which it approaches. If you really get in the shit, you are dead. When I crash, I like to do it safely.
 
acotrel said:
When I was a kid, a dealer offered to sell me a new 250cc Moto Parilla production racer, which as the real deal. In those days, most of us would not even consider racing a small capacity bike. The silly thing is that the top speed might be lower, but the risks are still similar. I think it was Bruno Spaggiari who was killed while racing a 125cc MV Agusta on the IOM.
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It wasn't Burno Spaggiari who was killed in the lightweight race at the TT as he, along with Paul Smart won the 1972 200 mile Imola race.
It was Agostini's friend Giberto Parlotti on a 125 Morbidelli in the 1972 TT.
 
acotrel said:
Re; It was a twin. My bad.

When I watch those on-board videos, I always watch the point at which the track converges in the distance and the speed with which it approaches. If you really get in the shit, you are dead. When I crash, I like to do it safely.
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Me thinks you watch too many videos and not do enough actual racing. . . . . .
 
You are probably correct. Next year might be different if we don't all die from the virus or the cancer which all the guys seem to get these days.
 
I understand there is a 500cc single cylinder race class in South Australia.
 
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