KR 94 Technique

The difference between a rider looking comfy on a fresh prepped practice track that he can ride with his eyes closed and a rider looking comfy on a Supercross race track 15 laps into the final main event of the night is vast.  Not saying he won’t be more comfy on the Suzuki, but we’ll have no idea until late next Saturday night.

After a few races I might have an opinion..

Love to see KR race to his potential, and hopefully he has fun and enjoys the next few seasons. He’s a legendary rider who’s accomplished a lot, he’s probably in his last 2-3 seasons, at some point he should relax just a little and enjoy the position he’s in.

JMO

That's even tough as Ken usually comes out hot anyway.  I'm in the "whatever makes Kenny happy" club.  You can't count him out.

My wife puts ketchup on everything. Doesn’t matter how precise I am with the seasonings, she breaks out the bottle of Heinz every time and absolutely covers the plate with it. I’ve always felt a little offended by that, since I’m so meticulous when it comes to crafting the taste of whatever dish I make, but now I’m starting to wonder if my cooking just tastes like ass and I’ve been in denial this whole time.

Anyways, I’m a mustard guy, and Kenny looks comfortable.

Imo . Ken looked amazing on the honda on hard pack . When the track was more rutted he struggled more . He looks amazing on the Suzuki atm . Hopefully the bike will give him more range of comfort on different track surface s . Also a reason why I think as the year went on he struggled more when it went east

No joke, his first few races are usually his best. 

Agree about “whatever makes him happy”!

I think Ken is simply more comfortable on the Suzuki. It's the bike he's had the most success on, so it makes sense, but I guess we'll see. I don't know how he could have been confident on a bike that bucked him over the bars on a massive triple for seemingly no reason anyway. 

I have ridden a suzuki in production form with a couple things added to suite me, then i rode a ktm suited to my liking, and i swear i had to be 8 seconds a lap faster....

so knowing the facts its gonna be hard for me to believe that its gonna be a better situation for the man. But i have Hope High hope because i personally have always liked the suzuki.

I have watched a couple of vids of him on the Zook....he looked as fast as he normally is, bike seemed to be reacting almost the same...better some places, worse or same in others. Go figure.

All I know is…

He HAS TO start the night at A1 with Motley Crüe’s Kickstart My Heart…

I can never take anything away from videos of riders by themselves at the practice track, they all look great, comfortable and fast to me..

I always liked the ergonomics of the Suzuki similar to the Honda some where before the 08 model. I could get off the Honda and onto a Suzuki and felt pretty comfortable in the saddle but then the Honda got real slim and a lot smaller the last few years. The last Suzuki i rode was a 15 rmz450 and it was a larger chassis than the Honda and fealt good. Kenny said he likes that it's a bigger bike and I agree. 

The bike looks like it simply fits him better. As a cycling metaphor it looked like he was on a too small of frame when he rode the Honda. Then again, Chase seems taller yet does just fine. 

I predict that he will have big swings in his best and worse (not counting potential crashes and mechanical DNFs) results. At best he could win, at the worst he could barely get into the top 10 on weekeds when he and the bike are just off.

8 seconds a lap? Sounds like a you problem to me. My times on a 450 versus a 250 would be closer. 

i think it was the fact the bike was sprung for 250lb rider and i weighed 160 at the time, bike was terrible compared to the ktm!

Bro, why would you even bring it up? 100Lbs is a huge difference. Cmon man!

KR94? Do you mean KSK ( kick start Kenny )? Gotta keep current.

true quentin...