Kevin Schwantz to ride 45mins before Indianapolis GP

 

The fans favourite Kevin Schwantz is to ride a 1995 RGV 500 before the
main event but with the crusade against two-strokes by the FIM why are
they allowing this? I still think the change from two-strokes is a
cynical attempt to manipulate motorcycle manufacture that serves
little purpose other than to create heavy motorcycles and the only
victims of this are - wait for it - people who have suffered leg
injuries from motorcycle accidents or who are otherwise disabled and
lacking bodily strength. The shift from the two-stroke by the
mainsteam manufacturers is a self imposed restriction and is not based
on analysis or fact, but it would appear: prejudice. The actual
exhaust quality from an RGV 250 engine might well be of greater
inefficiency than a Toyota Prius but the total volume of car users vs
motorcycle riders and thus absolute pollutant levels from each section
of vehicle users shows us that the non-balancing road users are by far
the greater offenders. Without even bringing in the use of trucks,
boats, trains and planes who's volume use of fuel and occasional gross
inefficiency is almost immeasurably greater than that piffling
minority known as the stink wheel brigade. With the vile
discrimination shown by the FIM and associated manufacturers (the
Japanese do not have a good history of tolerance towards social
inadequacy - its why we went to war with them) Kevin should not ride
at the event presented by the FIM but it would be more advised for him
if he wants to ride, to turn to street riding and their better
representation of the values of history.

 

wrote:


Fuck me - that is an Olympic class rant.  Well done.  I can just
imagine the spittle flying as you typed it.  Did you even draw breath?

BTW - for you information, in many parts of the world powered
two-wheelers outnumber four-wheelers many times over.
--
Champ

ZX10R (road), ZX10R (race; breaking), GPz750 turbo (classic) Hayabusa (touring)
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Baldy wrote:

don't worry, most weed wackers are still 2-stroke

 

Yes you are right about the rant, it just seems to me that what we see
from the FIM and Dorna look like knee jerk reactions but are surely
well thought out. Of course I will be the first to admit that I have
probably gone too far.
I know that the actual number of motorcycles can seem a lot compared
to other vehicles but thats not quite my point. for instance a
Kawasaki superbike will have a 4 gallon tank but a B-52 long range
bomber will load up with a maximum of 39,948 gallons and burn this in
an afternoon. A Panamax Merchant vessel could carry a fuel load of
7,000 tonnes (difficult to find out about this) and so on. Trouble is
that a motorcycle being the type of machine it is, is the easiest to
analyse and influence. Whereas shipping vessels, locomotive or
aircraft use vast amounts but we never hear of them getting a
hammering as the two-strokes have done and my comment about
discrimination (albeit unwitting) is a verifiable point.