When Kenny Cummings teased me and my buddy to watch him at Barbers. I was awed by the whole show but those 125's blew me away watching them spank everything through the turns - it took almost half the straight for the hp bikes to over take em - again. There is no doubt in my mind that if they had the power they would have plenty of traction to not be caught up with but lap the others.
I'm only hear-say familiar with 125 race bikes behavior, mostly from fella that rode em when the triangle profile tires were the rage. He said that he ran right at the apex then flung bike over to max and as sharp as max. Most turns could have many lines of attack with such on rail hook up.
Hobot — I was lucky enough to ride an RS125 Honda (if that's the machine I think you mean). As you know, these are proper, thoroughbred GP bikes, designed to do only one thing — circulate round a track as fast as possible. And they are very good at it. At first, you have to re-calibrate your braking and peel-in, otherwise you brake and then have to accelerate again to the peel-in point! You can ride around the outside or underneath almost any road-based bike. Those and the 250 racing strokers ruin you for anything else on a track.
Dave
Man oh man Dave your 125 description sure matches the fun I have on Peel.
Had to recalibrate my braking earlier or non at all to be on max acceleration by peel in. Could wait till very outside edge to fling a turn or hug the inside curb.
Could just wait for others to commit to an apex line so no chance to collide then pick any clear path out of there and be gone by time they started exits.
So is Peels advantage turning below the ton tire size or dampened compensating chassis twist? Peel's mass is almost twice a 125 but don't know about tire size differences yet. Hope to find out what 3X's power means to my tire philosophy.
Anywho like 125's GPs, Peel did not need much power to get bored with 1200's of various brands, as long as there is more time spent leaned a bit than straight up straight ahead. Ask those 1200's riders where they can use that power and they'll tell ya -any where they want, can zip up 150+ in seconds, as long as straight ahead and mostly upright. I know Peel could hook up more power on leans, though not when she was still a factory isolastic, nor Trixie Combat which stays a factory isolastic pleasant museum ride noy a sports bike spanker.
Will see how much more power can be hooked up on narrow rear someday.
Will see if 125's spank Ms Peel or not in their element too some track day.
hobot
