Wow, that’s awesome that you got to see the bike on-track. I think they have the right idea in that they have to innovate because the current factories (with their armies of engineers) can evolve designs faster than MotoCzysz can possibly hope to accomplish. Like James Parker’s RADD, it is possible for the individual to beat the factories at the creativity game.

I definitely agree with Dean about the MotoCzysz project being held back by lack of development. That has consistently been Kenny Roberts complaint about this Proton team. I’ll be surprised if the C2 shows up at Laguna, much less whether it can turn lap times that allow it to qualify.

Still, I wish ‘em the best…

Development, development, development. Development, development, development.
(Picture Steve Ballmer saying it, and you get how important it is.

Until and unless Czysz has the budget and will to blow up a couple dozen motors and let a serious development rider throw a few copies of his prototype down the track, it’s a fun exercise but ultimately doomed.

Don’t get me wrong- I’m all for his concept and if my lunch money would make a dent in the millions he needs to spend to get where he wants to go, he’s welcome to it. America needs a modern bike, the industry as a whole could use a few innovations, and I don’t see them coming from anyone else. But the gentlemen of the GP grid are going to eat him alive if he shows up at Laguna Seca without first having spent the GNP of a medium-small country and with a trailer full of spare motors, parts, and a couple complete bikes.