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robert wrote:The fork sliders are wrong way around with the axle offset to the rear making excessive trail. It will handle
like a chopper.

That is triple clamp dependent, and they had the triple custom machined, so you can't really know what the resulting trail is. The other issues you bring up, however, are more difficult to dismiss.

For fun, one sunday I rode our /5 race bike out with the Northern California BMW Club. Never again.

Major Softie wrote:

robert wrote:The fork sliders are wrong way around with the axle offset to the rear making excessive trail. It will handle
like a chopper.

That is triple clamp dependent, and they had the triple custom machined, so you can't really know what the resulting trail is. The other issues you bring up, however, are more difficult to dismiss.

The triple clamps look to be the 38mm offset as stock. The top one seems to be aftermarket.
Another thing of interest is that the front hub was supposedly cut, narrowed and rewelded. They were not one
piece in the first place. There are locating sleeves in the brake disk bolt holes that hold the two haves of the
hub together. To narrow a hub just machine both sides of the hub and shorten the locating sleeves and press the whole
thing together. No welding necessary or wanted.

If a race bike is beaten by a stock bike, which is the race bike?

ME 109 wrote:If a race bike is beaten by a stock bike, which is the race bike?

They both were.

Sometimes it's advisable to just stand back and say " Wow, what a really neat sow's ear!" and forget all about the silk purse thing. But for that money, I'm wanting the very best in sow's ears!

I know nothing of the modifications allowed by the various racing classes. If I was doing a project like that one and at the same time, documenting the heck out of it with pictures and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, explaining what each one was, I would mention how I was following the manual for a given class or classes. I think that would lend more credibility to the project.

Or, they could do what I did and make a Cafe' Racer with an idea to make a bike that looks a certain way. In my case, there was a happy surprise. It is my most fun to ride motorcycle ever. I have to wonder if just a little of that appeal for me is that there is more to be done. That makes it a fun bike even when I'm not riding it, as I can think about the next improvements I should make.

For that reason, I would guess that buying the subject of this thread, "The Race Bike", wouldn't appeal to most of us so much. After all, it is somebody else's project. Most of us probably think to ourselves, "Cool bike but I'd do this and that different."

Chuey