Re: Ban electronic aid's?
Fizz, you raise a good point. Some people who have been brought up on powerful bikes with no TC fair better without it - this is nicky haydens case, he likes the bike to be sliding about. Likewise in WSBK, nori haga uses no electronic aids, he dosnt even have the power capped in the lower gears.
Turn to e.g. casey stoner, who couldnt ride the ducati when the electronics where wrong, but a few tweaks later and he;s back to being a dominant force as he can just hammer the throttle open and let the bike sort itself out.
F1 shows that removing the electronics dosn't change the common front runners, but it also showes that when things get a bit slippery, the person with the most sensitive throttle control will shine through. Step forward Mr Hamilton at silverstone.
I see no problem with electronics on bikes - at the end of the day, the rider still has the biggest input - Rossi showed this in 2004 when he won that first race on an inferior M1. The electronics, if anything can make things better as tyre managment is better and we don't get these horrible spectacles of a close race and then one of the people fading off because he ate up his rear tyre.
Matt
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