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General Two Stroke Talk / Jerry Robin at Lorettas
« on: August 10, 2013, 01:42:36 PM »And this is because of the quality of the suspension? Or is there a handling difference as well? More stable on the '07? Less swapping? Better in the air? The '07 motor is easier to manage? More power? That seems like a big difference for bikes that both have 12" of travel, water cooling, and disk brakes and probably weigh within 5 lbs of each other. I guess 20+ years of development really have moved things forward!I suppose you can compare laptimes to get a sense of that. Of course that quagmire track chnaged from minute to minute so its not quite real...
So do you folks think if Jerry was on a practice track and kept going back and forth between the '07 and '85 bikes that his lap times would be hugely different? What specifically does the '07 do so much better than his trusty '85?
At the training facility he rode at before Loretta's (SOB MX) they did mock races everyday. On the '85 he was a 5 thru 10th place guy, on the '07 he was 1st thru 3rd regularly.
Obviously those are questions for either Jerry or the people at the training facility helping him. The only real issue between the two bikes they mentioned were starts. He would get killed on the 85 and have to make passes, on the 07 he would start up front. That was mirrored at Loretta's itself where he pulled a monster holeshot in the 2-stroke B/C but never anything in the top 15 in 250B.