Are you a Superbike fan who looks back on the golden years of the 1990’s Superbike and sighs in nostalgia? Get yourself to the UK for the Golden Era Superbike Class starting from next season, which has been designed to revive the 90’s Superbikes and their racing glory with models like the Ducati 851, Ducati 998, Kawasaki ZX-7RR and the Yamaha OW01.
According to BikeSportNews, ThundersportGB boss Dave Stewart is working on the project, and the new class will have restrictions on modern technology and electronics to reflect the bygone days of Superbikes.
Stewart says:None of those bikes were particularly good road bikes, but when you stripped all the clunky and ugly road bike detritus off of them and they stood there in their race prepped glory, just waiting to be spanked around the race track, their true purpose was revealed.
At world level they were seemingly ridden by a highly talented and committed bunch of axe wielding maniacs and the racing was simply fantastic.
Marco Simoncelli would have looked like a girl scout compared to that lot and the appeal of Superbikes was infectious and spread far beyond motorcycle fans.
More after the jump.
Golden Era Superbikes Superbike racing was where it was at and the crowds flocked to both Donington Park and Brands Hatch to watch Scott Russell, Giancarlo Falappa, Yasutomo Nagai, Colin Edwards, Aaron Slight, Carl Fogarty, Anthony Gobert and a host of other riders who didn’t complain about a bit of fairing bashing, they actually expected it and so did the fans.
So what are the rules of the Golden Era Superbike class? No tuning restrictions apply, but parts that can be used will be restricted to anything available before 2003 (except tyres).
Period engine specials will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
The models eligibile are:Ducati 888 all models (926 & 955 kit permitted)Kawasaki ZXR750 all model years (840 kit permitted)Yamaha OW01 all model years (840 kit permitted)Suzuki GSXR 750 SRAD all model yearsHonda RC30 all model years (810cc kit permitted)Kawasaki ZX7R and RR all model yearsYamaha YZF 750 all model yearsYamaha OW02 R7 both model yearsHonda RC45 all model yearsDucati 916 all model yearsDucati 996 all model years inc 996RAprilia RSV Mille & Mille R up to 2003Suzuki TL1000S & TL1000R up to 2003Honda VTR 1000 SP1Triumph T595 up to 2001MV Augusta F4 750 Oro & S models to 2002