At the end of the 2024 season I retired from motorcycle road racing. 25 yrs involved with the sport. 17yrs in comp, 8 yrs safety crew/crash truck.
Couple reasons. Last 3 yrs of racing was just becoming a chore. Missed a few weekends from just not wanting.
Also the new owners of CCS/ASRA (now just ASRA) are idiots. Final straw was them announcing that 1000cc v-twins would be allowed in Thunderbike if they were rated at under 125hp by the factory. So that included the non R and SPS ducs up to the base 999. No rules prevented racers of those bikes from building the engine up to 175hp. This would affect me in Lightweight Formula 40 since one of the 2 classes rules used for LWF40 is Thunderbike. No fucking way in hell is a 900-1000cc duck (or any other 1000cc vtwin) a fucking lightweight bike. It was bad enough that 140hp 749R’s were allowed in LWF40. Had 1 show up once. He was half a lap ahead after the 1st lap. Even the great Ed Key (RIP) couldnt keep up with his famed 100hp SV650.
