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He has also called the bike a "turd" on PulpMX, and said it is very difficult to set up for a rider that likes to push its limits.
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if he were to go the route that Chad did and start his own team based around the bike he liked best... would it still be the Suzuki? Or would he go to the bike that has dominated the past few years in the 2012 KX450F? James and Kawi's gelled well together and we all know that.
Or would he agree with Reed and feel the Honda has the best potential to win?
Or maybe he'd go with the company that seems to offer the most support to teams (with the recent introduction of many new teams who have chosen to ride their bikes) by going with a KTM?
Then again... if the JGR deal goes south he may just end up doing what Chad almost did, and be 'sitting in the stands drinking beers with the fans'
Theres a constant through the years but bike/ set up isnt it imo. I m starting to think that red hair is james kryptonite
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I'm sorry but are you suggesting that James was in the right to turn on flashing lights and chase down another car on the highway?
The "socially conditioned lense" you are talking about is called the law......what he did was against the law.
Wow......just wow.
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James could put his own deal together and maybe it would work with Suzuki or whatever, but that's a big leap without the right people around you. I'm not sure James has those people.
I'll break it down for you.
James is a HUMAN BEING. The "police officer" is a HUMAN BEING. It doesnt matter who pulls who over. If YOU think its ok for a police officer to pull over another human being (that is driving like a dick), then it shouldnt really be an issue for James to pull over another human being and simply tell them they are driving like a dick. It's not like Bubba wrote them a ticket and took money from them. He simply told them to "slow down". No harm there. Really, James did nothing "wrong".
Hell, had he just been pulling a prank, I still wouldnt be condemning the kid. Kids pull pranks. Big deal. But this wasnt some case where he was just driving around fucking with people. Not even close.
As for my whole "socially conditioning" part. I dont think you got it. And I probably shouldnt even try to explain it to you. But on a simple level, I'll explain it like this... you refer to "the law" as if it is some sort of absolute right or wrong, when in fact, the law has nothing to do with actual right or wrong. Youre simply lead to believe it is. No rational person would ever equate right and wrong with the law. Really examine the laws in some states or countries and its easy to see that its an entirely subjective scale of judgement that has no basis on logic/reason. And to live by any "legal" definition of right/wrong is not only asinine but would only make sense to a person that has been socially conditioned by "the man" or "the matrix" or "the system" or whatever hippy-as-fuck term one likes to use.
Here is where we differ;
James is a human being that has a job racing motorcycles.
The police officers are human beings that have a job enforcing the law.
Yes the cops were wrong to be driving too fast.....but James was also wrong to pull up and flash blue lights at them.
You know what they about two wrongs......
Of course the law is not an absolute but there are some pretty clear lines that you can draw between what is legal and what is illegal.
We aren't talking about some esoteric concept of right and wrong.....we are talking about doing something that is illegal, kinda stupid and then being caught while doing it.
Yes it is "wrong" to break the law, you can try and dress it up with talk of social constructs and conditioning but that is just a lot of BS excuses.
And he is not a kid......I'm not sure why people keep saying that.
James was 26 when he did this the guy with him is in his late 30's.
That is not a couple teenagers pulling a prank, that is two men who did something dumb and got caught.
Now I am not trying to say that he is the only person to do something dumb, not by the longest of long shots.
Hell I have done some pretty stupid things in my life too.....but I don't try to justify them.
We'll never know but it was a great prank for a 16 year old.........
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