First, see you all there at BW with my 65 hp class-slowest r6.
Second, no one is going to cheat the 450 races by running an extra cylinder. If i'm going *there*, i'm just running an R1 with a 450 sticker.
There are always ways to cheat in a class. Catching cheaters, from my limited understanding, mostly is initiated by complaints by fellow racers. Tech is then able to verify that there was/was-not something shady. So, tech has to be able to do that, with some degree of confidence. In some classes, that means mechanical tear-down. For us, I think it's going to be more like a tear down of the wiring harness. I can imagine burying a receiver somewhere under the tank and activating it via a fob hidden in my glove. I can imagine that the circuit to the cheater cylinder could be controlled by arduino or similar. But really? It's going to be so obvious to run an extra cylinder. But what about the case in which the cheater-cylinder is fired occasionally, like Marcus suggests. That's harder to catch. Hence, there will be the need/option to tear-down the wiring of a bike.
Any extra boxes in the wiring harness would need to be validated. And extra scrutiny will need to be given to the injector circuits -- checking for auduino and similar is not enough. For instance, I believe that I could send a signal out from some data-loggers to open a circuit.
We will need to work with tech for our class to stay credible considering the improvements we want to evolve.
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How do we know if a bike is making great power because of legal development vs cheater-cylinder. That's kinda gray. I know there's one bike which is up almost 10% on other bikes -- but knowing the rider, I *don't* suspect that it's firing the cheater-cylinder at partial duty. But what if I didn't know the rider ???
Second, no one is going to cheat the 450 races by running an extra cylinder. If i'm going *there*, i'm just running an R1 with a 450 sticker.
There are always ways to cheat in a class. Catching cheaters, from my limited understanding, mostly is initiated by complaints by fellow racers. Tech is then able to verify that there was/was-not something shady. So, tech has to be able to do that, with some degree of confidence. In some classes, that means mechanical tear-down. For us, I think it's going to be more like a tear down of the wiring harness. I can imagine burying a receiver somewhere under the tank and activating it via a fob hidden in my glove. I can imagine that the circuit to the cheater cylinder could be controlled by arduino or similar. But really? It's going to be so obvious to run an extra cylinder. But what about the case in which the cheater-cylinder is fired occasionally, like Marcus suggests. That's harder to catch. Hence, there will be the need/option to tear-down the wiring of a bike.
Any extra boxes in the wiring harness would need to be validated. And extra scrutiny will need to be given to the injector circuits -- checking for auduino and similar is not enough. For instance, I believe that I could send a signal out from some data-loggers to open a circuit.
We will need to work with tech for our class to stay credible considering the improvements we want to evolve.
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How do we know if a bike is making great power because of legal development vs cheater-cylinder. That's kinda gray. I know there's one bike which is up almost 10% on other bikes -- but knowing the rider, I *don't* suspect that it's firing the cheater-cylinder at partial duty. But what if I didn't know the rider ???