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<blockquote data-quote="vibrac" data-source="post: 126736" data-attributes="member: 60"><p>I am going to commit heresy now! To an old boy in the UK the plethora of records and specific record classes in the US in a Bonneville context is bewildering.all those capacity, age, streamlining, etc etc classes so many records very confusing.</p><p>We have a 'person' over here called Henry Cole who drives me mad on a TV program because he is the face of motorcycling that UK TV sees and it makes me shudder . I usually reach sensory overload about half way through his program, but I think he got a record over there by picking some out of the way class for an old bike in a sparse capacity class which has kind of devalued the term 'world record' in my eyes.</p><p>I must not be too hard on the US diversification of motorcycle sport into many classes is everywhere</p><p>The days of simple capacity classes are gone forever even modern motorcycle racing has two or three disciplines real road racing, Moto GP racing,superbikes. Even within Vintage racing we have 28 (<strong>Yes 28</strong>!) classes in BHR! and 3 classes for scooters! I am simply lost, is it a desire to make a level playing field for all (manufactures and riders) or a case of if you cant win make a class where you can?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vibrac, post: 126736, member: 60"] I am going to commit heresy now! To an old boy in the UK the plethora of records and specific record classes in the US in a Bonneville context is bewildering.all those capacity, age, streamlining, etc etc classes so many records very confusing. We have a 'person' over here called Henry Cole who drives me mad on a TV program because he is the face of motorcycling that UK TV sees and it makes me shudder . I usually reach sensory overload about half way through his program, but I think he got a record over there by picking some out of the way class for an old bike in a sparse capacity class which has kind of devalued the term 'world record' in my eyes. I must not be too hard on the US diversification of motorcycle sport into many classes is everywhere The days of simple capacity classes are gone forever even modern motorcycle racing has two or three disciplines real road racing, Moto GP racing,superbikes. Even within Vintage racing we have 28 ([B]Yes 28[/B]!) classes in BHR! and 3 classes for scooters! I am simply lost, is it a desire to make a level playing field for all (manufactures and riders) or a case of if you cant win make a class where you can? [/QUOTE]
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