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All you Bubba fan boys need to get over it. It's not the bike. Bubba has always hit the dirt a lot. He got cocky, he got complacent. He started believing Ralph's FMOTP hype and it bit him.
RV2 came on like a hurricane, and so far only Reedy has stepped it up to try and challenge RV2. Reed is a bad dude.
Even if the bike is not at 100%, who's to blame? JGR, Bubba, Showa, Pirelli?
RV2 came on like a hurricane, and so far only Reedy has stepped it up to try and challenge RV2. Reed is a bad dude.
Even if the bike is not at 100%, who's to blame? JGR, Bubba, Showa, Pirelli?
Also, great post pal!!!
The Shop
James did NOT crash the Kawasaki 450 as much as he crashes the Yamaha. Period. Now granted maybe a contributing reason he crashes the Yamaha this much is the cumulative number of concussions, but the bike doesn't seem to be helping.
Not a JS fan boy whatsoever, just saying what it looks like to me.
It just seems top me that with all that NAZCAR knowledge and Bubba being the baddest MXer ever to walk the planet, that the results should be better. All this blame the Yamaha is just an excuse IMO.
I like that bike and have wanted one since they came out, but I have heard Bailey say he thinks the bike has issues, Chad called it a turd, Ferry said he rode it once and didn't want to ride it again, Michael Byrne call it an odd duck, RV say " if it's an odd duck how good can they really make it?" and Matthes has said many other top pros say it has issues, and these are just the comments I have heard.
I think it's a great bike for for 99.9% of people, but I have to wonder after all those comments is it really good for the top pros.
Run a blue Honda with Yamaha stickers, and Dunlops with Pirelli badges. Now that's thinking outside the box!
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Pit Row
It's so sad that its predictable. I shit you not that I told my girlfriend right when the heats started "Awesome, long whoop section tonight! I guarantee Stewart is going to go down in them in his heat or the main." ... and it happened! I didn't say it because I wanted it to happen (I'd never wish that), but that is the longest whoop section I've seen in a LONG time... and I cringed every time they showed him going through them.
while i don't think it is entirely the bike's fault, i certainly have never seen a NASCAR blitzing the whoops........ and without full factory support, it is like JGR trying to set up an Michael Schumacher's F-1 car.......... two entirely different machines.
running around in a big circle 500 times at 180mph without having to ever shift gears is entirely different than clearing a 90 foot triple
the only thing JGR has over other race teams is more cash and a hell of a machine shop......... talent in bike set-up...... no more than the rest of the teams.
Gives me hope to start doing the novice class again at 27 after not riding seriously for a few years
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