In the words of the good dragons den... Ill tell you where im at....

My initial responce was NO WAY!

Old ripper is just about keeping going, and already only has a small amount of top armour to get it in weight. 102kg without gas.

Theres pysically no way it could loose 2kg without a major overhaul of the drive system.... something im not prepared to do on the old girl !

The new ripper, has 4kg of gas, and already it is slightly over weight and the plan is to loose enough to give it a hardox body, and the thought of loosing 4kg is scarey.

Baring in mind though that it would be the summer of 2009 before it was officially weighed at the new limit, i know that it most probably will hahve been rebuild buy then, and the new weight limit would be taken into consideration.

I am warming the idea to a grandfather type of rule, all it means is that we fade the rule in slowly... all be it very slowly... old machines can continue... new machines use the rule as they could be classed as an improvement on old machines anyway.

When would grandfather rule kick in.. machines built from when January 2009, or January 2008??

I think that is possibly the way forward to accommodate everyone.

John
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