440 big bore kit

[Ballsout Racing]

Stu
You can protest, it costs £250 and you get your money back if you're proven correct. So, you have to be very sure that the bike is illegal, and that's why it doesn't occur very often, I guess because without conctrete proof, you ain't going to stump up the cash

[Ballsout Racing]

I regularly race against a Honda with a big bore kit.

I don't mind though, because i keep beating him.

That's why they do it, they don't beleive that someone can actually ride faster than them on a legal bike :smt013

[Jamz]

PS, I know for sure that there have been some 440cc race bikes out there though :smt013

I can gaurantee one, if you can find it!

But how can you get away with it, anyway?

When I had mine bored out the difference was massive! I would have thought it would stick out like a sore thumb especially driving out of the corners?

[Ballsout Racing]

But how can you get away with it, anyway?

When I had mine bored out the difference was massive! I would have thought it would stick out like a sore thumb especially driving out of the corners?

Well, mostly they're done by people who can't believe that the front runners are actually faster riders than them and therefore must be cheating, then find that they still can't beat them

On a race engine they don't give that much extra top end bhp, maybe 2 bhp, but can give as much as 10 bhp midrange along with the added torque. As you say it shows coming out of the corners, that speed is then carried down the srtaights. But, a good rider will just have to work the legal engine harder to get out of the corner better, ie, use the power at higher revs. In other words the 440 bikes are 'easier' to ride fast!

[Jamz]

So they're basically only ridden by crap riders, otherwise they'd be off into the distance every race and everyone would know?