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andyinchville1
Guest
HI All,
I am thinking of organizing a race of motorized bicycles here in Charlottesville (This could be applied anywhere though) but thought it might be a good idea to see what some peoples ideas are as far as rules would be concerned.....Maybe we could form some sort of organization for the racing of our motorized bikes.....Kinda like NASCAR is to stock car racing....Any ideas?...Here are a few of my ideas to get it started....
1) Have 2 classes Street Legal (less than 50 CC class) and Stealth class (70
CC and under). Maybe a stock and modified class too withing each
category.
2) Have a weight limit on the bike of say 50 lbs (discourages somebody from
taking a small motorcycle and putting pedals on it and calling it a motorized
bike).
3) To keep costs reasonable, Have a claim system where the winning bike
has to sell their engine for $500 (or some other price) if somebody wants
to buy it (this would discourage all out big $$ entries from dominating the
field)....(they sometimes do this in RC car racing to keep things lower
budget....Of course we could also have an unlimited class to really push
the state of the art even higher)
4) Of course all bikes should be roadworthy and safe.
Any other Ideas?....
Andrew
I am thinking of organizing a race of motorized bicycles here in Charlottesville (This could be applied anywhere though) but thought it might be a good idea to see what some peoples ideas are as far as rules would be concerned.....Maybe we could form some sort of organization for the racing of our motorized bikes.....Kinda like NASCAR is to stock car racing....Any ideas?...Here are a few of my ideas to get it started....
1) Have 2 classes Street Legal (less than 50 CC class) and Stealth class (70
CC and under). Maybe a stock and modified class too withing each
category.
2) Have a weight limit on the bike of say 50 lbs (discourages somebody from
taking a small motorcycle and putting pedals on it and calling it a motorized
bike).
3) To keep costs reasonable, Have a claim system where the winning bike
has to sell their engine for $500 (or some other price) if somebody wants
to buy it (this would discourage all out big $$ entries from dominating the
field)....(they sometimes do this in RC car racing to keep things lower
budget....Of course we could also have an unlimited class to really push
the state of the art even higher)
4) Of course all bikes should be roadworthy and safe.
Any other Ideas?....
Andrew