William Robb wrote: > > From: "Mark Roberts" > >> WERA had, and still has, a vintage racing class (Vintage 5) for those >> late-70's/early-80's Japanese superbikes: Skinny tires, flexible frames >> and waay too much horsepower. The guys who do it refer to the sport as >> "dinosaur wrestling" :) Actually, they can be made to handle pretty well >> with some frame bracing and suspension upgrades. > > I had the "pleasure" one time of riding a Cow 500 2 stroke for a little > jaunt. I could actually > feel the frame twisting under hard acceleration, and the only reason the > thing kept going > relatively straight was because the front wheel was off the ground, so it > didn't matter how far > out of line the front was. > Very scary ride, especially for someone who was used to the more sedate pace > of the Harley big > twin.
My friend Tommy D, who won the V5 championship on a KZ1000 now races the same class on a Kawasaki 2-stroke triple! Of course, he has had the frame braced and has replaced the forks and swingarm/shocks with modern components -- you're allowed to do this in the class as long as the new bits use the same basic technology as what was available at the time the bike was made (so no inverted-style forks or monoshock rear suspension). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
