Well, yeah. But we're just spec-sheet racing at this point.

For the how-ever-many-ieth time on this forum. Wet weight vs dry weight. Learn it.

Additional Bodywork is more minimal (no tank cover and fewer fasteners) and they claimed reduced weight on transmission components

The 8 lbs is not just a sum of the parts weight reduction. Yes it is included in the verbiage, but the listed wet weight went from 237 to 229 lbs

The Sacramento River Delta can't dry up. It is at sea level. And there is no single point in the 1,100 square miles of naturally fertile Delta agricultural, residential, and recreational land at which it "discharges into the Ocean." That geographical ... more »

Press release has frame 1.5 lbs lighter, subframe .7 lbs lighter, shock .24 lbs lighter. Exhaust doesn't give a specific figure.

Honda put it on a decent diet: Lost 8 lbs.

Both of those as well as engine braking characteristics, different center-of-gravity, rotating mass,and overall weight.

Lake Oroville: 3.6M acre/ft Lake Winnebago (WI's largest interior lake): 3.4M acre/ft

Rode my bike up to Folsom Lake (adjacent Hangtown), and this was in late May when it hits peak volume:

Every dude complains about that when they can't get the job done. Said as somebody who has made that complaint.

Schwartz also had top 10s at Thunder Valley where HP is always in short supply and in the east at High Point on that powerless yellow pig. Dude is ripping in any condition.

You mean like owning a team that wins 20 out of 24 Motos for a national championship?

You can already get that: http://www.asiawing.com/moto_detail/productId=43.html

Max Antsie seems to fit the bill to me: Fast enough for top 10s in any series. Experienced tester. Probably looking for a ride somewhere after this season. Likely at a point in his career that he would be willing to help develop a new team/bike just

I'd be looking at a market-based approach. Build an engine that can be used in different states of tune across multiple lines, street and dirt. Chassis dimensions similar to current successful design, but that you can pull off with your facilities/suppliers. ... more »

I just was watching this vid where AJ Cantanzaro rode a '21 CRF450 back-to-back with a '95 Cr250 (ripping damn good on both), and aside from the primitive brakes, he picked the old 250 as his winner of the two for rideability: "I could totally ride this ... more »

It also varies quite a bit by manufacturer. All the bikes' MSRP are in a range of somewhere around 10-15% of each other. Parts, on the other hand, are widely variable.