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Message: [QUOTE="wardy, post: 1126005, member: 16710"] HEY! Eric, from a guy who was riding what a 525 somethin with an electric starter the last time i seen ya!! here is the deal. They blew us out of the water mainly because of the 250 heads up. We felt todays machines were much closer competitiveness then 125-250 we have now. But it goes straight against the "direction" the OEM's want to go. Basically we screwed with thier marketing plan. That simple. They say they will "study" it for a year and then see, like we haven't asked for this rule the last few years. Actually they wait this out, they know time makes this problem go away. You see when congress voted straight up and passed this with this kind of support, they had to listen, for a while. Before it was just a few of us they call trouble makers? We tried to pass a rule to level the playing field, allow a better opportunity for lower price entry level racing, and fix something that was needed to be done for a long time. We felt it was a good rule, because it didn't add a ton of classes, in our district it wouldn't add any, but in some that didn't keep open class it would add 2-3. It worked with machines that are currently being made, we didn't ask anyone to make special bikes or change that end. 150 deal, Dave, the rule is what passed congress, 150 in schoolboy or/and supermini only. With a little lengthening of the wheel base in the "lites" class with old rules still in place. Today the 150 meets that requirment but it has to be long enough. Ultimately the 150 will get pushed on us in the 85 sr class, i can see how this will be an issue til it happens. When you show up at a committee meeting with all the OEM's there, and you are presented with 5 pages of honda marketing, easy to see what is "desired". Oh and the rule change for the 150 to be in even the 7-11 class, presented by "staff". So we expect to see that rule back in front of us again and again. Hey last thought, eric, see if they can someone on the radio from staff, seems they like to get on internet radio and blow the rule change out prior to the vote, actually made the vote sound like a forgone conclusion. I would listen to that one and then call in!!! Maybe pitpass would take my phone call, LOL the other guys wouldn't wardy [/QUOTE]

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