Deans bike smoking

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Edited Date/Time 1/26/2014 7:53pm
Anyone see deano's bike smoking out the bottom (breather maybe?) in his heat? Think it was mechanical, not a stall.
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FGR01 1/25/2014 9:57pm
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Yep, from his heat win...

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Katoomey 1/25/2014 10:30pm
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too bad for him. he was flyin'
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stoop 1/25/2014 11:05pm
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Could it be possible it was running out of fuel?
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40Plus_922mx 1/25/2014 11:59pm
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Last week:
MP: Deano whats wrong with you!!? Is it the bike?
DW: No it's my body.
This week:
MP: Deano what's wrong with you!!? Is it your body?
DW: No it's the bike.

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enketchum 1/26/2014 12:22am
1/26/2014 12:22am
Was that from the main?
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gjbruny 1/26/2014 12:27am
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enketchum wrote:
Was that from the main?
no it was when he won his heat. that pic shows it much better. you had to be looking for it in the broadcast to see it. i thought i saw something on lap 4 then for sure saw it on lap 5.
Motocross83 1/26/2014 2:42am
1/26/2014 2:42am
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and missed something (surely they have a B bike on standby?). These things happen I guess, but you've got to feel bad for Dean - not am die hard fan but he definitely had that one.
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jock 1/26/2014 2:56am
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gjbruny wrote:
Anyone see deano's bike smoking out the bottom (breather maybe?) in his heat? Think it was mechanical, not a stall.
Smoke or steam?
lostboy819 1/26/2014 3:07am
1/26/2014 3:07am
Motocross83 wrote:
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and...
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and missed something (surely they have a B bike on standby?). These things happen I guess, but you've got to feel bad for Dean - not am die hard fan but he definitely had that one.
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it done in time.
Motocross83 1/26/2014 4:29am
1/26/2014 4:29am
Motocross83 wrote:
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and...
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and missed something (surely they have a B bike on standby?). These things happen I guess, but you've got to feel bad for Dean - not am die hard fan but he definitely had that one.
lostboy819 wrote:
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it...
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it done in time.
Ah, I see.
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abn166 1/26/2014 6:59am
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gjbruny wrote:
Anyone see deano's bike smoking out the bottom (breather maybe?) in his heat? Think it was mechanical, not a stall.
jock wrote:
Smoke or steam?
It was a bunch of smoke. I noticed it once over a jump. I could see a lot of smoke coming from a breather hose by the rear shock leakage. I was wondering if his team noticed and would replace the motor. I guess they didn't.
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Big Lenny 1/26/2014 7:26am
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Motocross83 wrote:
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and...
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and missed something (surely they have a B bike on standby?). These things happen I guess, but you've got to feel bad for Dean - not am die hard fan but he definitely had that one.
lostboy819 wrote:
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it...
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it done in time.
Yep...
str8shooter 1/26/2014 8:08am
1/26/2014 8:08am
Motocross83 wrote:
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and...
Yeah I also saw it a couple of times in his heat race. Look's like PC may have "possibly" dropped the ball with this one and missed something (surely they have a B bike on standby?). These things happen I guess, but you've got to feel bad for Dean - not am die hard fan but he definitely had that one.
lostboy819 wrote:
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it...
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it done in time.
Big Lenny wrote:
Yep...
Ok so what part of the bike is "the main part" that goes through tech? Is it the frame?
What if a rider tweeks a frame in an early practice crash......Can they swap all the parts over to a different one?
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Xeno 1/26/2014 8:12am
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abn166 wrote:
It was a bunch of smoke. I noticed it once over a jump. I could see a lot of smoke coming from a breather hose by...
It was a bunch of smoke. I noticed it once over a jump. I could see a lot of smoke coming from a breather hose by the rear shock leakage. I was wondering if his team noticed and would replace the motor. I guess they didn't.
I saw that, too. But I thought it was caused by him whipping the bike upside-down on the last lap of the heat race.
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resetjet 1/26/2014 9:08am
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I saw it and was thinking, ok here we go with deans bad luck again.........I would guess they changed the engine or something and a wire was loose somewhere.......Notice also dean was late to the line.....
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GuyB 1/26/2014 9:26am
1/26/2014 9:26am
I heard them mention at the podium that they swapped a frame when they were talking about the MMI Top Tech award. Not sure what was going on there.

I saw some smoke as he crossed the finish line in the main, too.
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bullpen658 1/26/2014 9:45am
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What are the odds that the bike quits on the last lap of a 15 lap main and then works just fine again? I'm guessing something is up here. Has anyone checked Mike Alessi's helmet for a laser guided ignition interrupter pointer gadget? I think I saw someone hiding behind the grassy knoll by the Raiders sign.
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motogrady 1/26/2014 10:39am
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lostboy819 wrote:
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it...
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it done in time.
Big Lenny wrote:
Yep...
str8shooter wrote:
Ok so what part of the bike is "the main part" that goes through tech? Is it the frame? What if a rider tweeks a frame...
Ok so what part of the bike is "the main part" that goes through tech? Is it the frame?
What if a rider tweeks a frame in an early practice crash......Can they swap all the parts over to a different one?
Good question. I was under the impression the frame must be stock, that's the one thing you
can't "aftermarket out".

Anybody got a rule book?

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lostboy819 1/26/2014 10:59am
1/26/2014 10:59am Edited Date/Time 1/26/2014 11:00am
lostboy819 wrote:
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it...
Can't race a back up bike, you have to race the bike that goes through tech. You can change the engine if you can get it done in time.
Big Lenny wrote:
Yep...
str8shooter wrote:
Ok so what part of the bike is "the main part" that goes through tech? Is it the frame? What if a rider tweeks a frame...
Ok so what part of the bike is "the main part" that goes through tech? Is it the frame?
What if a rider tweeks a frame in an early practice crash......Can they swap all the parts over to a different one?
They tag the frame during tech inspection , but then again if it gets damaged they cant make you ride something that could fail so there must be protocol for replacing the frame. I am sure someone will be able to tell us or find it in the rule book because I have no idea what they would do in that situation.
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Flynn842 1/26/2014 11:04am
1/26/2014 11:04am
When the bike quit on him you could see flames shooting out of the exhaust while he rolled the take off of the tripple
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al711 1/26/2014 11:15am
1/26/2014 11:15am
Don't they run a dual ignition setup? It looked like he was fiddling with the switches on the bars to me, ignition went bad and he was swapping maps maybe?
BornA'Lil2Slow 1/26/2014 11:19am
1/26/2014 11:19am Edited Date/Time 1/26/2014 11:24am
1 ignition 2 maps. map is software. either the ignition works or it doesn't
madmaxperformance 1/26/2014 11:23am
1/26/2014 11:23am
The smoke was likely due to blow by coming out the crankcase vent. Probably due to something failing in the engine, such as a piston ring, or a cracked piston...
ihatemotocross 1/26/2014 1:15pm
1/26/2014 1:15pm
dudes lucky it didnt give up the ghost on the face of a triple or through the whoops
louis.bernard.564 1/26/2014 1:22pm
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FGR01 wrote:
Yep, from his heat win... [img]https://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1512632_10150358684064955_2022950993_n.jpg[/img]
Yep, from his heat win...

Hypothetically, my bike does this in a heat, I do not go on it for the main until they changed the engine
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cudby 1/26/2014 3:09pm
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Cudby-RacerX photo. Thanks...
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just James 1/26/2014 5:49pm
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I wonder if PC may have tried some different engine part, or tune, to gain some power for this race. Something which didn't work out very well in the reliability dept.
After all, they haven't exactly been dominating the races lately.
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CRF505 1/26/2014 6:16pm
1/26/2014 6:16pm
He posted a photo on instagram earlier today. It looked like his chain was falling off on the last lap of the main. I just looked again and the photo was down though.

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