Honda out (old news)... Harley in?

[OreoGaborio]

HD and Kawi 250 Spec Classes are a possibility down the road... maybe even a Yami 450 class too.

http://www.cyclenews.com/articles/ro...for-ama-racing

[Evil_Weasel]

actually i don't think those spec classes sound bad at all.... however in true DMG fashion i'm sure an idea that sounds great will be all pooped up in the excecution.

[Speed Demon 828]

wooo hooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Awesome]

let's have a spec class for custom chopper roadracing too.

[GixerJockey]

let's have a spec class for custom chopper roadracing too.

hessosmart

[obsolete]

Aren't spec classes usually aimed at budget minded people to get into racing? Competition by taking $ out of it? Seems dumb to do that with a 10k Harely. Maybe they're looking to attract Harely riders in to the sport?

[Kurlon]

let's have a spec class for custom chopper roadracing too.

The USCRA ran a tank shifter class this year...

[Awesome]

Aren't spec classes usually aimed at budget minded people to get into racing? Competition by taking $ out of it? Seems dumb to do that with a 10k Harely. Maybe they're looking to attract Harely riders in to the sport?

Possible, did you get that from the part of the article that said 'we're trying to attract harley riders to the sport'?

[obsolete]

Guess I missed that in my quick skim, but it's good to know that my intuition was spot on.

[Pittenger5]

I was never a racing fan until I started racing. I never knew Harley's were popular racing machines in the dirt track world. I never knew they were road raced until I saw Robs at the track.
Its good advertisement for both Harley and DMG. Maybe you'll draw a Harley crowd to the roadrace community, and Harley will draw some fans that see they're not all accountants playing dress up and getting in 26 bike pileups on the highway.

[a13x]

AMA Pro Racing used to have a 883 class. This isn't something new. Anything to get the millions of motorcycle riders that don't currently know shit about AMA Pro Racing to the track is okay with me.

[eboos]

If anyone wants to get there new bikes for AMA Pro Racing, I have a few of them is stock.

[butcher bergs]

Why does this reek of a ploy to attract Harley people for them to see that AMA has a Buell?

Not trying to stir the porn. Just thinking out loud here.

[eboos]

Why does this reek of a ploy to attract Harley people for them to see that AMA has a Buell?

Harley people do not give the tinyest rat's ass about Buell.

They do want to capture this huge market of motorcycle riders and show them that there is more to riding then just poker runs.

[Johnny B]

The USCRA ran a tank shifter class this year...

Everyone in the picture is on a tankshifter except #21X, but he was 87 years old, so I let him out anyways.

[lrrs313]

Everyone in the picture is on a tankshifter except #21X, but he was 87 years old, so I let him out anyways.

87 years old?!?! I hope I'm still MOBILE at that age, let alone able to ride (and race).

[Johnny B]

87 years old?!?! I hope I'm still MOBILE at that age, let alone able to ride (and race).

Here's Ed Fisher racing at Loudon in 2006. I think he was 82 at the time. He won the Laconia Classic in 1953, a month before I was born.

[csmutty]

Everyone in the picture is on a tankshifter except #21X, but he was 87 years old, so I let him out anyways.

Some of those things smoke like bastards. Probably need to put in a quart between races.