I would love to race on a track like that and go those speeds. I am alot better rider than most of you have given me credit for. Remember, I started out racing dirt bikes! I would challenge any who think they could keep up my pace on equal bikes. Smaller tighter roads dont make your bike faster...its just an illusion with lots of G forces.You still need the power in the straight-aways to get ahead of your apponent.
You can race on a track like that and at those speeds. You just have to want to do it.
Ever noticed the lap times between big race bikes and little race bikes? Not that much in it when you consider the massive power advantages the big guys have. Ain't no illusion man.
Smaller bikes (or bikes with less horsepower) usually don't need the fat rubber the big guys need to hook up. And here's the catch - for any given corner speed a bike with skinny tyres won't have to lean over as far as a bike with fatter tyres - so the skinnier tyred bike can carry more corner speed (even ride around the big fellas in some cases). The higher the corner speed the quicker you get to top speed down the straight.
Do a search on track days/ride days here and you'll see guys commenting on how sometimes the big bikes were holding them up in corners.
This is why we used to have 'Formula' classes. From memory F2 used to be 250 two strokes, 650 4 stroke fours and unlimited twins. Big power variations but the lap speeds were similar. Dunno what it is now, haven't raced for over 10 years.
As has been said before (I think) It's easier to ride a slow bike fast. You can crank 'em and get on the juice without as much worry about the thing snapping sideways and sending you over the longdrop. The easier it is to ride, the faster you will ride. Have more fun too.
Any one can ride a rocketship fast in a straight line. I guess the question is do you want to be anyone?
