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Want to see more of what DRT Kawasaki has up their sleeves here?
Head here... https://www.vitalmx.com/features/Vital-MX-Pit-Bits-2018-MXGP-of-Valkenswaard,5883
Nobody can deny the effort Dixon puts in. I had a race motor dyno'd at their workshop a few years ago and Steve showed me around. Incredible place for sure and the amount of work they put into their bikes is incredible.
The Shop
fuel in the tyres,
think of all the positives...
The only thing I think is less "trick" looking about the gp's is the way they do their numbers. It looks weird how the points leader only has the red plate on the front plate. Also how the 250s only have the black plate on the front. I dont get why they do that its pretty weird. I think it looks better when its consistent all the way around. Besides that things like the ram air kawi are absolutely badass and they have us covered on basically everything else lol. What is the reason they only do the front plate though? Is it just to be different than us?
Pit Row
still nobody ever put in question the production rule that the AMA forces, and is responsable for the that......
it is clear, looking at the "bikepark" of both series, that the production rules takes out the capacity of private teams to be competitive, evan small manufactures, it only serves the dominance of the big 5 and it is very visible when the factory riders cant race, they just chose the next best brand rider, leaving the team that betted on him "walking dead"......
looking at the 2 series and how things happen on each side, i think the production rule is a mistake, not good for the business of racing, only serves the big 5 manufactures and is one of the reasons for the loss of competitiveness of american motocross and its not like that in supercross also, because nowhere else in the world supercross is that important......
i find it strange that no one here discusses this.......
could you see a small manufacture team, like TM in mxgp that came up with the 2 exaust exists now followed by honda, doing the same here in usa ???
Also like I said the rule over here evens it up because Reed said his stock husky had more power and was lighter than his factory Yamaha. Pingree said that Husky/KTM only drop cams in their engines and use the stock tranny ratio with different material for reliability but they basically throw cams/exhaust on their factory bikes and call it a day because they already make SO much more power and are SO much lighter than all other bikes thats all they need to do. That means the USA privateer can buy a stock KTM/Husky and compete with anyone. In the MXGP's they could drop $100,000 of unobtanium on an already light/fast KTM plus port/polish/cams/crank/whatever tf they want and blow away the privateer on a Husky.
Of course, it's sure to be a very special version of the old 'Big Head'.
He can run anything he wants to. And, in any combination / configuration of what KTM have in their box of tricks.
The GPs allow so much variation and innovation, which is such a great thing to see.
But, it it can be surprising to those that think it's all Works Bikes, how often riders and even big, well financed teams still use production items. I think Pourcel when he was last in the 450 GPs declined the use of an 'SR' level bike, to use a modified production bike / engine.
Straightest line equals less restrictions
Intake on the rear of head requires mixture to turn almost ninety degrees to enter cylinder at valve.
With airbox where the tank was it would be a straight shot into the cylinder thru the head.
Almost zero valve shrouding and volumetric efficiency would increase
Ford ran a small block at Indy in the late 60s early 70s with this design. It was a dohc that had intake runner between cams and exhaust ran out into the valley between heads where the intake normally mounts. Made a very narrow engine
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