To be fair, if they put bags on to race, it may not look so ugly.
Are they going to mount sliders on the bags for when they drag them in the corners?
I think it's absurd to have a race class for bikes like this that are inspired by production non-race bikes if they don't even look like something people would buy in a dealership. Better if they're using bikes that actually sold in some required homologation numbers, with minimal mods.
I think the idea of racing this class of bike, at least on a technical road course, is absurd.
If they wanted to take them to the Friday Night dragstrip, then, yea, no problem. Heck yea. Punch it, Chewie.
To quote the famous Suzuki Samurai ads "They really go straight".
At least for me.
Honestly, that's part of what road racing is all about. Seeing these riders, coming over a rise, knee down, elbows down, head down, bike down, "leaning the right way" as they carve through a corner, at speed, then flicking it back over in a heartbeat to attack the back half of the chicane. Who doesn't like to see the start of a race as the bikes line up like a colored ribbon around the corners. There's a reason folks are camped under trees up at the Corkscrew to see a single corner of the entire track.
These bikes will carve like a butter knife through gristly meat. Hippo racing. No elegance or poise. Maybe (maybe) the single distinguishing factor of this series will be the return of racers breaking free and backing it in as they take these bikes on wild slides trying to navigate through corners, like Yates in the old days at Turn 10 in Laguna or the last turn at Hotlanta.
But -- I doubt it. Be too dangerous. Frames flicking the riders off like a spring. They'll probably end up wearing steel shoes and flat foot these things through the corners.
At least when they did Harley nights at Speedway, it was interesting.
