Is your class on the chopping block?

GoGo

GoGo

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Open Twins goes I may go with it. Only class my bike actually fits, and barely at that.

Perhaps eliminating classes that are light on AFM entries now isn't the only possible solution. After all just about every AFM class has gone light on entries depending on your perspective. Do we really want to offer less opportunities to race your favorite motorcycle?
 
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LongGoneJohn

Gone
Personally I don't see the point in making a class for every bike.

No one likes racing in empty, or light classes. It's boring to watch, boring to ride, and everyone gets a trophy. I know a lot of us are millenials, but it's silly.

Personally I'd like to see the AFM consolidate classes and make it so there are not nearly as many. Make fewer classes, longer races, and if you want to race -- buy a bike that fits into one of the classes. Or don't race.

I stopped racing with the AFM because of the million classes, novice classes for each million classes, a billion trophies, and the lack of racing because of it.

Limit the classes, reduce the number of races and increase the length of races that do stay, and see what happens.

Now, which classes you ask? No idea, I don't have the data to make that decision.
 
GoGo

GoGo

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You do it long enough and the desire to buy just any bike to fit just any class loses its draw. Ten years in, if you last that long, even the newest 600 seems old. So you start building weird shit to race, and when you win on weird shit let me tell you there’s no feeling like it. Twenty years in, if you last even longer, you become weird shit racing weird shit. And somehow that’s even better. I can’t define thirty years in just yet, but I’m trying, and this canceling cool classes thread is weird shit.
 
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LongGoneJohn

Gone
GoGo said:
You do it long enough and the desire to buy just any bike to fit just any class loses its draw. Ten years in, if you last that long, even the newest 600 seems old. So you start building weird shit to race, and when you win on weird shit let me tell you there’s no feeling like it. Twenty years in, if you last even longer, you become weird shit racing weird shit. And somehow that’s even better. I can’t define thirty years in just yet, but I’m trying, and this canceling cool classes thread is weird shit.
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GoGo, you're a fucking animal though. Us mortals are not.
 
SVJ

SVJ

That Looks About Right
I was planning to pick up an SV this weekend and return to AFM next year. Is there going to be a class?
 
GoGo

GoGo

Well-known member
synfinatic said:
BoD kept all the classes. The SV will be legal for all the same classes it was last year.
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Best news, cause the last guy to call me a fucking animal had just beat me in Open Twins by eleven feet, for the third time... Those marks don't wash out easy.

Thanks synfinatic
 
synfinatic

synfinatic

Wannabe Fast Guy
GoGo said:
Best news, cause the last guy to call me a fucking animal had just beat me in Open Twins by eleven feet, for the third time... Those marks don't wash out easy.

Thanks synfinatic
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You gonna be sound legal for Sears this year? :p

Seriously though, what you said above really hit home with me. I'm knocking on 10 years with the AFM now and I don't think I would of stayed around this long if I was riding on the same bike as the guy next to me.
 
GoGo

GoGo

Well-known member
I've got that and more in the works for this KTM. Sound is just the start. Spears has the motor and Gerry the swingarm. Learned some fascinating stuff about suspension this fall that I should share. So much motorcycle knowledge around here.

I hear you on the ten year mark brother. New challenges, weird bikes, big twins, whatever it takes. Racing grows with you if you let it.
 
synfinatic

synfinatic

Wannabe Fast Guy
I'm picking up my motor from Gregg on Monday. :) Can't wait to drop it in the frame and put it on the dyno and see what we've got.

I'd definitely read what you've learned on suspension. I've been reading all I can on the subject and still find it ~50% black art.
 
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