Is it just me......or can someone tell me what the fuck is going on with next years superbikes......this new rule of having stickers that look like headlights on the front???? WTF!
Because the new owners think that Superbikes is the equivalent of NASCAR compared to MotoGP being the 2 wheeled F1. I can see Superbikes really being pushed as a real production based series in the future, so the stickers make some kind of sense, if only for redneck Americans.
I can see the appeal to the manufacturers of bikes as its easier for the consumer to relate to the product/products if they look more like what they're buying. besides, just think of the fun you can have, I'd get some spare stick on eyebrows or even stick on fake nose & glasses and pop them on my bike prior to the race
If its to promote production racing and help people identify them in the showroom, well put lights on them, not stickers that look like lights....obviously made out of some type of non shattering composite for safety. The consumer versions have number plates.....fake number plates anyone? I know....what about indicators! and make the riders use them before overtakes. :tongue: Where would the different teams put their tax disc.....now there's a thread on its own. Madness for me
I'm all for it. The closer superbikes are to the customer products, the better. Working lights would be even better...perhaps they could introduce traffic lights on the main straight...
Put a school on the chicane so that the mums can park on both sides of the track, and introduce contra-flow racing...
Replacing lights with stickers is perfectly logical IMO. Keeps wight down but it helps give the bikes that clear identity which is needed for the whole win on Sunday, sell on Monday theory. I doubt its a rule thou as that is some prime advertising space
Woah Fig....where did you dream that crazy idea up....that will never catch on, production racing on production bikes....
tell me about....fkn stupid....some sort of americanised bullshit... the organisers are doing an excellent job of boring me to death and turning me off the sport...gone are the 'golden years' *wiping tear away from my eye* of the Bayliss/edwards battles, and the sheer joy of seeing Fogarty go flying over the handlebars.
Actually, the bikes all look like clones of each other. By the time they've been covered in sponsor stickers, you have no idea which is the Fireplace and which is the Beemer. Putting little fake headlamps on them might help recognition.. except.... they all look the same with the headlamps on too.
