Talk:Superbike racing

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[edit] Weights and Measures

Bobblewik, regarding the change of "363.76 pounds" to "364 lb." and "360.45 pounds" to "360.5 lb."

I used the Google calculator to get the previous values, and I get the same results if I calculate using 2.2046 lb./kg. Are you saying that the calculations are incorrect?

If the calculations are correct, and measures are supposed to be rounded to one decimal place, shouldn't the first value be 363.8 lb, instead of 364 lb.?--DrunkenMonkey 03:14, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reconstruction and Splitting

I believe this article needs to be reconstructed and split up, the Superbike racing article should be about the general term for production motorcycles racing with World Superbike Championship and other national superbike championships getting their own articles (some of them already have). I think the Touring car racing article (superbike's car equivalent) is a good example on how the article should be structured Chris Ssk 12:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I made a page of what I have in mind for User:Chris Ssk/Superbike racing|Superbike racing with all the info about world Superbike moving to a new article Chris Ssk 22:29, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Having reconstructed the piece of tosh that was here 18months ago, its always good to see an article get to a "split" type debate. I am not sure that its too large at present, and I would also be inclined to keep the term "Superbike" together at present with the information related to "World Superbike" - much as though its lost the inter twining between world and national championship thanks to the one tyre regulations, its still the pinacle of the sport. The split debate has been held off for a while thanks mostly to the creation of some great national level articles, so I am wondering why you think it would be worth while doing now? Am very open to a debate on this one, although have stated my present thoughts above. Rgds, - Trident13 10:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm suggesting a split not because of the size of the article but because of the context, as I said above, I think the article "Superbike racing" should be about the general term for production motorcycles racing. I feel that the corrent structure of the article is more likely to confuse than help someone understand what "Superbike racing" is.

a brakedown of the article

• first few likes talk about Superbike racing in general
• Superbike racing#Overview talks about the World Championship, information there does not apply to national championships
• Superbike_racing#World_Superbike_series after talking about World Superbike in the past 4 paragraphs, there is an overview of the series
• Superbike_racing#National_Superbike_seriesoverview of the manjor national series with each one pointing to its own article, nicely done but if national series are important enough to have their own separate page why isn't world superbike?
• Superbike_racing#World_Superbike_champions
• Superbike_racing#List_of_World_Superbike_riders both this and the list of champions should be made into list pages, there are 100s of world superbike riders but only about 40 are mentioned here

again a page I made of how Superbike racing could (and in my opinion should) be User:Chris Ssk/Superbike racing using the Touring car racing article as a base. World Superbike can be moved to its own page with all relevant information (History, rules, list of riders/champions etc...) there Chris Ssk 13:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Does it really say that?

2nd sentence of the article:

Superbike World Championship is the worldwide superbike championship.

Is this a sentence or a riddle? My brain hurts from trying to understand it. WikiTony (talk) 22:03, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Is it better now? If not please rephrase it so it makes more sense. Chris Ssk _talk 22:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I really don't know much about this topic. That's why I looked it up. I actually only went to the article because i saw it here (a good read). I still don't think the "sentence" in question makes sense, but i admit i do not know much about this topic and do not feel comfortable making changes to it. To me it sounds like saying "Dog poop is poop from a dog." pardon the crass analogy but its the best i could do. WikiTony (talk) 02:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Superbike World Championship is a name. It's the name of the international superbike championship. "Bank of America is an American bank" could be used as an analogy I guess. Chris Ssk _talk 02:43, 10 February 2008 (UTC)