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So.
I've missed racing this season. A lot. I've had a lot of fun and good times racing bicycles this year, but I miss the excitement of a race weekend. I don't have the crazy anticipation and excitement that I got racing motorcycles. I only got to race motorcycles 7 times a year which meant every time was a huge deal to me. I race bikes pretty much every weekend. This is why I decided to do it, because I get to race every weekend and train as much as I want, but that makes each race a little less special.
I plan to race bicycles again next year, but I don't see why I cannot race motorcycles as well.
That being said, I still have my motard, I can always make a come back on that. Sadly, racing bicycles means I don't have is ANY free time. I literally spend every available minute on my bicycle. Year to date I've ridden my bicycle 290 hours and over 5k miles...this does not allow me the time to maintain a motard. I also work a TON.
I don't really have any ambition to race an SV. I know this makes the most sense but I just don't want to. Racing bicycles isn't exactly cheap (surprisingly) so I don't want to run a 600 either due to the costs of crashing/expendables.
Part of me wants to explore a gp bike. I'm a relatively smaller dude (5' 7ish" 155lbs) and very agile, so I think I can make one move pretty quickly. I know finding one isn't the easiest, but they are out there for sure, typically with a ton of spares. This also means my resale would be exactly the same as what I bought it for. A quick ebay search shows a slew of parts still for sale and i know there is an awesome group of dudes that can help me out with these things. My biggest question surrounds the maintenance and how prone these things are to blowing up. The problem with the motards is that these things are not made to do 100 miles an hour. Holding the throttle wide open the entire time just beats the crap out of them. Turning that massive gearing is a huge strain they were not designed for. I think the 125s are purpose built for this which would mean they should withstand the abuse of Road Racing better than a machine built for Motocross.
Two strokes are easy to work on and maintain. I know these bikes are designed to be easy to work on whereas on the 450s its almost easier to remove the motor before doing any work on it as its just crammed in there. Every weekend, assuming nothing went wrong, I had a minimum of 2 hours of maintenance on the motard to check and adjust valves and change all the fluids. I'm hoping with a 125 I can simply check compression, change the case oil a couple times a season and be done with it.
So let me know guys...maybe this is a dumb idea and I should just get an SV. I hope to be back next year on something cool, lets see what I can do.
I don't really need the specifics about different makes and models quite yet. At least not until this proves to be a viable option for me.