Racing Silly Season - Who is going where in 2014?

[LoonR1]

He's building his own ZX10R bike and entering BSB as a privateer from round 3 at Oulton. It's a bit of a hybrid Superbike / SuperStock bike.

Edited by LoonR1 on Friday 17th April 07:20

[scunnylad]

LoonR1 said:

scunnylad said:

Entries closed for the TT a while ago,not seen any mention of him having entered

Doing the TT is not a prerequisite for entering Macau,Easton won Macau last year,he has never done the TT

It was more sponsors requirements than anything set as a rule.

Ah see what you mean

[Turn7]

LoonR1 said:

He's building his own ZX10R bike and entering BSB as a privateer from round 3 at Oulton. It's a bit of a hybrid Superbike / SuperStock bike.

Edited by LoonR1 on Friday 17th April 07:20

how come?

[LoonR1]

graphene said:

LoonR1 said:

He's building his own ZX10R bike and entering BSB as a privateer from round 3 at Oulton. It's a bit of a hybrid Superbike / SuperStock bike.

Edited by LoonR1 on Friday 17th April 07:20

I thought that all BSB bikes were a hybrid of those two formats?

So much for your 'hotline'...You know nothing, LoonR1!!!

Eh? He's taking his SuperStock bike from last year and adding some of the changes allowed for BSB, but not all, as he can't afford all of them.

[LoonR1]

graphene said:

Pulling your leg, really.

Although, in theory, in terms of electronics/ECU there are some advantages which Superstock has over Superbike - no?

Yeah, but they have to be taken off bizarrely I think.

[Turn7]

Why is Bridewell not doing the season for TYco ?

[George29]

LoonR1 said:

Eh? He's taking his SuperStock bike from last year and adding some of the changes allowed for BSB, but not all, as he can't afford all of them.

Good luck to him, but it does seem odd to do all that when he already had a ride on a bike that had everything added.

[FourWheelDrift]

Turn7 said:

Why is Bridewell not doing the season for TYco ?

There are two conversations going on here I think.

Says Joe Burns up the page, see here - https://twitter.com/burnsfiftythree/status/5876861... then suddenly Tommy Bridewell's name gets thrown in.

[LoonR1]

George29 said:

Good luck to him, but it does seem odd to do all that when he already had a ride on a bike that had everything added.

He didn't run in the first round due to handling issues. He wanted to go in one direction to solve it, they wanted to go in a different one. He announced he was leaving, I think they've been quiet on the subject. Either way it does sound like an argument ended it.

[Turn7]

FWD

[Lincsblokey]

LoonR1 said:

Lincsblokey said:

Not quite, given that you dont pay to do macau, they cover travel & accom costs.

if your good enough.

Glad you know better than I do what he said while we were having a beer that night. I didn't see you there though. His words were that he would do Macau but he would have to do The TT first to satisfy his sponsors and he wouldn't do that. Bear in mind that I'm not saying he was or is doing Macau either. This conversation started because he said there was nothing that could make him do the TT so I mentioned that to quash the rumour on here that he might be doing the TT. that's not to say he hasn't changed his mind.

Joe wouldnt get an entry to Macau yet, he can say what he wants but he hasnt justified gaining a grid spot at this time, Phil Crowe did 124mph at tt2014 as a newbie, and went well at NW200 etc, plus offered to cover his own costs and still got knocked back, as did several high profile lads.

Joe can say what he wants to people, but as the sponsorship debacle, the JG Speedfit situation and now the gearlink stuff show, not all he says can be taken at face value.

(like saying the Gearlink frame was bent. It was a brand new frame from cradley kawasaki just before xmas, and he is the only man to ride that bike since)

[LoonR1]

Lincsblokey said:

Joe wouldnt get an entry to Macau yet, he can say what he wants but he hasnt justified gaining a grid spot at this time, Phil Crowe did 124mph at tt2014 as a newbie, and went well at NW200 etc, plus offered to cover his own costs and still got knocked back, as did several high profile lads.

Joe can say what he wants to people, but as the sponsorship debacle, the JG Speedfit situation and now the gearlink stuff show, not all he says can be taken at face value.

(like saying the Gearlink frame was bent. It was a brand new frame from cradley kawasaki just before xmas, and he is the only man to ride that bike since)

I'm going to repeat myself yet again.

I mentioned that he said he would like to do Macau.

At no point have I said he is doing Macau.

I mentioned Macau as part of this discussion purely because someone suggested he was doing the TT

I said that when I was chatting to him over a beer that he said he would never do the TT so that was unlikely to be the reason for the tank.

He did say that he would like to do Macau though one day

Is that clear enough or does someone else want to take this off on a tangent?

[egor110]

Tommy Bridewell

[tight5]

LoonR1 said:

Is that clear enough or does someone else want to take this off on a tangent?

In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve.[1] More precisely, a straight line is said to be a tangent of a curve y = f(x) at a point x = c on the curve if the line passes through the point (c, f(c)) on the curve and has slope f‍ '​(c) where f‍ '​ is the derivative of f. A similar definition applies to space curves and curves in n-dimensional Euclidean space.

As it passes through the point where the tangent line and the curve meet, called the point of tangency, the tangent line is "going in the same direction" as the curve, and is thus the best straight-line approximation to the curve at that point.

Similarly, the tangent plane to a surface at a given point is the plane that "just touches" the surface at that point. The concept of a tangent is one of the most fundamental notions in differential geometry and has been extensively generalized; see Tangent space.

The word tangent comes from the Latin tangere, to touch.

[Dare2Fail]

Interesting proposal by Dorna which could prove a big win for MotoGP. Short version is:-

1. More funding for teams
2. Effectively the increase in funding will pay for the cost of leasing a bike

http://www.bikesportnews.com/news/news-detail/moto...

[egor110]

Dare2Fail said:

Interesting proposal by Dorna which could prove a big win for MotoGP. Short version is:-

1. More funding for teams
2. Effectively the increase in funding will pay for the cost of leasing a bike

http://www.bikesportnews.com/news/news-detail/moto...

Wonder if Paul Bird regrets leaving?

[Dare2Fail]

egor110 said:

Wonder if Paul Bird regrets leaving?

Didn't he sell his grid spots to someone for a decent chunk of wedge?

[LoonR1]

Joe Burns on his own bike as predicted earlier in thread

http://www.britishsuperbike.com/news/burns-set-for...

Lee Costello back with Morello racing for a one off ride too

[LoonR1]

Update on the above.

Joe Burns is retiring from all racing with immediate effect

Lee Costello is with Morello for the foreseeable in BSB.

[2GOOD]

LoonR1 said:

Update on the above.

Joe Burns is retiring from all racing with immediate effect

Lack of sponsorship? Always a shame but times are hard.

Any idea what happened to Motodex BMW?