Let’s remember that most of the teams that competed at TTXGP for example, were small operations and university courses with relatively tiny budgets and a timescale of about 5 months. You want to get a motor in a bike that will handle reasonably well straight off the bat then you butcher something that exists. Simple.

From a commercial point of view, bikers won’t admit it but we are a very conservative bunch in general. New technology is largely greeted with suspicion and radical changes often flop. As you say, the ‘tank’ on the Ep1c helps it look ‘like a bike’ and I’m sure something like this is the way forward. The right mix of new technology in a familiar form. I just hope this doesn’t go the way of the previous bike in a state of perpetual development that never makes it to market or a podium.