Eric
you state you raced superbikes for 4 years... What bike and with what sanctioning body.... i have been supplying most professional and club level racers with motorcycle bodywork for the last 28 years (since 1983) and i cant find any record of ya... Sean and Evelyn at WERA don't know ya.... What club did ya say ya raced with?
AFM and AMA, #2 Open in the Sears Point '82 enduro and a heat race win in AMA superbike in '83 when we were lucky enough that they segregated the privateers from the factory rides. Lots of crashes and other finishes that were impressive for a minimum wage privateer in a big money sport and not impressive on any record book. I was pre-John Woo, if you remember that era and got out after his death (for other reasons). Funny thing, I ran into Scott a few years back and we both remarked about how much thinner we were then... WERA wasn't around then, I'm older than that. In my day (geezer comment coming) we weren't ALLOWED to have bodywork on the bikes unless we were GP. Don't even get me started about the tire and wheel width restrictions...
If you don't like what I have to offer, post some test results or ignore me. You make some good observations, why not test and learn from the data?
What's the world's fastest land animal???
An Ethiopian chicken!