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It all started with Wilson's bike cutting out during Supercross. The bike cut out and he lost the lead to Anderson. Lucky he did not crash. At Glen Helen, the bike started to cut out again and Wilson had a devastated crash (and an end for his title hopes). I also read somewhere (interview Wilson or somewhere ...) that they had it before during training and now in Hangtown Baggett had to stop because the bike was also cutting out ...
What the heck? That's like 4 months and they still have the same problem. I don't think the Kawasaki bikes at the GPs have the same problem? How can Mitch expect his riders to be out front when the bike does not cooperate?
What the heck? That's like 4 months and they still have the same problem. I don't think the Kawasaki bikes at the GPs have the same problem? How can Mitch expect his riders to be out front when the bike does not cooperate?
Once is an anomaly
Twice is a coincidence
Three times is a problem.
The tough thing about these sort of incidents is that they are tough to duplicate in the "lab". When Dungey's bike wouldn't start at Southwick, I remember an interview with Mike Webb where he said they tried everything to recreate the issue and couldn't do it. When something mechanical breaks, they can see it, inspect where and why it broke, and fix it. It's hard to fix something like this because there are a number of different parts of the electrical system that could have failed.
Still gotta be frustrating like nothing else to Mitch who expects perfection.
Baggett speculated that it was a rod or something engine related. Seems more consistent with an electrical problem to me than mechanical. Didn't Cianciarullo have a mechanical of some sort at some point also or am I misremembering.
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I still can't believe that guys want to jump ship from that team. The latest podcasts said that Hill and now possibly Baggett are looking at changing. Either other teams are throwing big $$ around or riders are thinking the bikes are better elsewhere? A few years ago you would have to be really really stupid to choose to be off that team.
If it is the same issues that plagued their SX bikes then this is really bad. Not sure if it is, just sayin.
Like Ramrod said, it's hard to imagine the PC team not being the best rig out there. That's been the case for so long, it's weird to not really expect them to win week in and week out.
And there has to be a limit of how far you can push a bike. Maybe they're pushing a little too far.
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Could have also said "only raced once"...
I bet $20 on tank / fuel temperature.
Otherwise please just bring them on the 11 bike or something like that when they killed it. The more battles the better !
Wasnt hot enough for that this weekend. Barely reached 90 on saturday.
If they are having those issues at that temp, good luck for the rest of the summer.
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