Built for a Brit singles series. Some here have seen it in photos, here she is on the track at Mallory Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3FDUBv34Kk&feature=rec-HM-fresh div
Gavin Trippe is a huge proponent to this type of racing: http://motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofbiopage.asp?id=373 Roland Sands Design is already building the kits for conversion: http://www.rolandsands.com/450.html 450Moto.com is also doing kits: http://www.450moto.com/ BlipBlip
So far as I understand, under the proposed 450 series class rules here, only Honda, Yamaha, and Kawi 450's are homologated. However, since the Husky is sold here in sufficient numbers, no reason why it couldn't gain approval as well. Now for one of our 65hp Highland 450's.......Tee, hee
they had a couple of them at Laguna seca usgp on display a Hon and I don't remember the other I think a kaw,,I think they were Rolands bikes.
Yeah, a Honda and a Kawi. And, yes, they are Rolands' bikes. I understand there are others being built by a few teams and they will be racing as an exhibition class at selected AMA pro-races in '09. At least that was the word in November, I think... Frankly tho', I'm not sure what the point is, an SV650 can run circles around these singles at lower cost. Ditto of course for I4 600's. A spec class can easily be created around those. For that matter, on most technical tracks [read: shorter tracks], a well-prepped 450 Motard is really quick; why spend mucho dinero trying to make it look like a pukka GP bike??
Buy the forks/wheels/brakes/fairings...and you have a street-legal bike, if it's a TE frame. It's all in the title work. The TE's are legal and you are using the same frame with the same VIN. Add just enough lights to get it through inspection, and you have a winner.
That's pretty cool!.... But I still like it as a SM for hooligan riding... and it can whip the S%!$ out of most sportbikes in the twisties
