FP1 ROAD BIKES FOUND...in a bunker in Essex

[y2blade]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults...


Looks like the homoligation specials have been found

[Dontlift]

Sits in Wheelchair.....


I WANT ONE!

[RemaL]

read this in MCN last week.

[sprinter1050]

Waste of a bunch of good looking & sounding bikes !
What did MCN say about them-like why there & what's gonna happen with them?

Ah- forget that-just read link.

Edited by sprinter1050 on Thursday 11th February 09:27

[Steve Evil]

sprinter1050 said:

Waste of a bunch of good looking & sounding bikes !
What did MCN say about them-like why there & what's gonna happen with them?

Basically that it was up to Petronas what happens to them, and they're probably not going to be keen unearthing an expensive mistake like that. Maybe they'll just be quietly auctioned off.

[CastrolCraig.]

Steve Evil said:

Maybe they'll just be quietly auctioned off.

yes, to me and sprinter, we are going to buy the lot and start up a Robby-Sprintonas FP1 race school.

price includes b&b where they use one of Sprinters quality beds and matresses.

[sprinter1050]

CastrolCraig. said:

yes, to me and sprinter, we are going to buy the lot and start up a Robby-Sprintonas FP1 race school.

Somehow I like the sound of Robby-Sprintonas FP1

Not sure I'd let any other 'tards out on one though :

Anyway- it aint gonna happen-unless the Oooromillions thing is kind to me tomorrow !

[CastrolCraig.]

sprinter1050 said:

Somehow I like the sound of Robby-Sprintonas FP1

now all we need is a photoshop of the foggy petronas logo, done for us.

[Steve Evil]

sprinter1050 said:

CastrolCraig. said:

yes, to me and sprinter, we are going to buy the lot and start up a Robby-Sprintonas FP1 race school.

Somehow I like the sound of Robby-Sprintonas FP1

Not sure I'd let any other 'tards out on one though :

Anyway- it aint gonna happen-unless the Oooromillions thing is kind to me tomorrow !

The Oooromillions is mine. However, I'll let you put your business case forward in a Dragons Den style.

[bob1179]

All that lovely metal just waiting to be played with.

I hope they don't get crushed and go to some good homes.

[y2blade]

bob1179 said:

All that lovely metal just waiting to be played with.

I hope they don't get crushed and go to some good homes.

Foggy is going to build up a dream team and enter WSB with a couple of them and clean-up....oh wait!!!!

Edited by y2blade on Thursday 11th February 10:06

[CastrolCraig.]

on a side note, i was speaking to a guy a while back who worked on the FP1 race bikes.

he pointed out that due to petronas being so hell bent on using as much as they could from the asian quarter, they were running some god awful parts, it made me laugh when he said you could map it better with a pc3 than the ecu's they were being made to use.

he reckoned there was around a seconds worth of time at most circuits lost because of sub standard parts.

[FM]

Lovely bikes though...sounded wonderful too. I lapped up the flames out the exhausts on the over-run in the WSB early seasons, almost worth the effort of the entire operation.
120 odd horses for the road bikes seemed a touch conservative. I would certainly consider them attractive for the collecter.

[y2blade]

FM said:

consider them attractive for the collecter.

what as?.... greatest failure alongside the Benelli Tornado race bike?

and the Bimota WSB effort?



surely you need some success to become a collectors piece?


please correct me if I'm wrong

[CastrolCraig.]

y2blade said:

FM said:

consider them attractive for the collecter.

what as?.... greatest failure alongside the Benelli Tornado race bike?

and the Bimota WSB effort?



surely you need some success to become a collectors piece?


please correct me if I'm wrong

its not the success, its the 'ive attained the unatainable'

and to be fair, there still lovely bikes.

[y2blade]

CastrolCraig. said:

y2blade said:

FM said:

consider them attractive for the collecter.

what as?.... greatest failure alongside the Benelli Tornado race bike?

and the Bimota WSB effort?



surely you need some success to become a collectors piece?


please correct me if I'm wrong

its not the success, its the 'ive attained the unatainable'

and to be fair, there still lovely bikes.

"unattainable" yes but not desirable

take one lame white elephant and paint it green..there you go that'll be £40k

no thanks


now talk to me about the create fresh RC45 and RC30 in Dobles for £25k a pop and i'll agree with you

[sprinter1050]

Somebody forgetting the 1 (or was it 2? )podiums for Walker & maybe Corser?
Sweet handling too IIRC. They maybe failed also partly down to the misjudgement on the engine capacity regs which were hiked to 1000cc when they built it to 900 (?)
Let's face it some of the past GP bikes are desirable now as collectors pieces even though they maybe were not winners.

What would you give for McCoy's/McWilliams' Ilmor GP bike if you could get it?

Edited by sprinter1050 on Thursday 11th February 10:44

[y2blade]

sprinter1050 said:

Somebody forgetting the 1 (or was it 2? )podiums for Walker & maybe Corser?
Sweet handling too IIRC.

nope

"every dog has its day"
"One swallow does not make a summer"

Edited by y2blade on Thursday 11th February 10:45

[Mr Gear]

Amazing story. Also makes Foggy look like less of a liar... the bikes were there and good to go, so he was as good as his word.

[sprinter1050]

Oi-you can't mention "swallow" on 'ere without attracting the perv brigade

Anyway, as I recall it Y2B- Bimota had minimal success too in WSB yet they're still attractive (ok -I know the difference is they are still actually "made"