What bike have you ridden to the limit of it's performance?

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Skub wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:10 pm It used to be if a rider was noticeably faster in novice or inters,they were moved up a group. Does this not still happen?
Focused Events used to put transponders on all the bikes. At dinner time they were put in the proper groups.
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Yorick wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:46 pm
Skub wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:10 pm It used to be if a rider was noticeably faster in novice or inters,they were moved up a group. Does this not still happen?
Focused Events used to put transponders on all the bikes. At dinner time they were put in the proper groups.
I liked it, but they only do 3-4 UK days a year now
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weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:18 pm
Skub wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:16 pm
weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:13 pm

Lol you're funny 🤣
What about getting demoted then,if you're too slow?
Stop it, you're killing me !!!!
We were marshalls as well as instructors. Riders got moved on our day so.
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Yorick wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:46 pm
Skub wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:10 pm It used to be if a rider was noticeably faster in novice or inters,they were moved up a group. Does this not still happen?
Focused Events used to put transponders on all the bikes. At dinner time they were put in the proper groups.
Sounds like a good idea, somebody other than Les Battersby must have thought of it.
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Re: What bike have you ridden to the limit of it's performance?

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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:54 pm
Yorick wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:46 pm
Skub wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:10 pm It used to be if a rider was noticeably faster in novice or inters,they were moved up a group. Does this not still happen?
Focused Events used to put transponders on all the bikes. At dinner time they were put in the proper groups.
Sounds like a good idea, somebody other than Les Battersby must have thought of it.
F.E. were doing it at Euro events 15 years ago. A few years later in UK
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I regularly got the collector box and centre stand on the 400-F down on corners - most often round the old roundabout in front of Buck House :) - and sometimes pushed it hard enough it did a tank slapper... so I'd say I probably took that to its limits. 30-odd hp.

The XBR got close from time to time, notably when I overheated the single front disc on a series of downhill bends, leaving me no front brake into the final corner. Somehow I found some extra lean and got round it. Claimed 44 hp.

The GS500E was probably the most powerful bike I've been able to ride about as hard as I could manage - full throttle, rear wheel lifting under braking. Claimed 54 hp.

The Hornet ran out of rider before it ran out of competence! 80-90 hp depending on who you believe.
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