So when does Team USA land..

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Edited Date/Time 1/26/2012 10:43pm
on Italian soil?

Thursday?





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When the red carpet is delivered Cool

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cdm806 9/29/2009 1:54am
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I would guess that they are already there. Changing 6 time zones is a bit taxing and takes more than a day or two to adjust to before the race.
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jamma10 9/29/2009 2:14am
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cdm806 wrote:
I would guess that they are already there. Changing 6 time zones is a bit taxing and takes more than a day or two to adjust...
I would guess that they are already there. Changing 6 time zones is a bit taxing and takes more than a day or two to adjust to before the race.
Yeah its a bit like racing the GPs, the travelling can be pretty tough. Wink
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USA is showing up to this thing? why bother.

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6ixeight wrote:
USA is showing up to this thing? why bother.

...when USA kicks AUS to the curbTongue
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What is James doing this weekend?
geordieshaft 9/29/2009 6:50am
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Had to charter one of these for all the man friends, hangers on and ass kissers !!
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They are leaving today..
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Killer Customz 9/29/2009 7:49am
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Yes they are leaving today! Tuesday morning. A friend of mine who works for the AMA and will be traveling with the team was in our shop here in Michigan on Saturday and was filling us in on some of the excitment. Even got a sneak peak at the team pit shirts and jackets. Very cool looking! Sounds like there was some other interesting rumors too, but my mouth is shut on that.
Paul-Africa 9/29/2009 7:52am
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Dumb Question: How do they get the rigs there?
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geordieshaft wrote:
[img]http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/33000/Airbus-A380-Superjumbo--33309.jpg[/img] Had to charter one of these for all the man friends, hangers on and ass kissers !!


Had to charter one of these for all the man friends, hangers on and ass kissers !!
Pretty much!!! lol I heard they booked somewhere around 120 hotel rooms just for Team USA. Each rider has 2 mechanics and of course family, AMA staff and journalist. Its going to be crazy but I think USA has a real chance. These guys are good under pressure and every team except AUS has at least 1 weak link.
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jamma10 9/29/2009 7:54am
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Lets hope they don't try and smuggle any pretzels and Kool-Aid into Italy via they're bike containers!!
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Paul-Africa wrote:
Dumb Question: How do they get the rigs there?
They usually link up with other GP teams and work out of one of their rigs.
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geordieshaft wrote:
[img]http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/33000/Airbus-A380-Superjumbo--33309.jpg[/img] Had to charter one of these for all the man friends, hangers on and ass kissers !!


Had to charter one of these for all the man friends, hangers on and ass kissers !!
Killer Customz wrote:
Pretty much!!! lol I heard they booked somewhere around 120 hotel rooms just for Team USA. Each rider has 2 mechanics and of course family, AMA...
Pretty much!!! lol I heard they booked somewhere around 120 hotel rooms just for Team USA. Each rider has 2 mechanics and of course family, AMA staff and journalist. Its going to be crazy but I think USA has a real chance. These guys are good under pressure and every team except AUS has at least 1 weak link.
no wonder it costs so much... it will be just like being in America for the riders still cocooned in their own wee red white and blue world.
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geordieshaft wrote:
[img]http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/33000/Airbus-A380-Superjumbo--33309.jpg[/img] Had to charter one of these for all the man friends, hangers on and ass kissers !!


Had to charter one of these for all the man friends, hangers on and ass kissers !!
Killer Customz wrote:
Pretty much!!! lol I heard they booked somewhere around 120 hotel rooms just for Team USA. Each rider has 2 mechanics and of course family, AMA...
Pretty much!!! lol I heard they booked somewhere around 120 hotel rooms just for Team USA. Each rider has 2 mechanics and of course family, AMA staff and journalist. Its going to be crazy but I think USA has a real chance. These guys are good under pressure and every team except AUS has at least 1 weak link.
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no wonder it costs so much... it will be just like being in America for the riders still cocooned in their own wee red white and...
no wonder it costs so much... it will be just like being in America for the riders still cocooned in their own wee red white and blue world.
Why do Team USA feel they need to bring their own Journalists? Surely they should be independent inorder to be subjective, isn't that what journalists are supposed to be?
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GuyB 9/29/2009 9:32am
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I think he meant someone covering for the AMA, not regular journalists.
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Killer Customz wrote:
Pretty much!!! lol I heard they booked somewhere around 120 hotel rooms just for Team USA. Each rider has 2 mechanics and of course family, AMA...
Pretty much!!! lol I heard they booked somewhere around 120 hotel rooms just for Team USA. Each rider has 2 mechanics and of course family, AMA staff and journalist. Its going to be crazy but I think USA has a real chance. These guys are good under pressure and every team except AUS has at least 1 weak link.
mccread wrote:
no wonder it costs so much... it will be just like being in America for the riders still cocooned in their own wee red white and...
no wonder it costs so much... it will be just like being in America for the riders still cocooned in their own wee red white and blue world.
jamma10 wrote:
Why do Team USA feel they need to bring their own Journalists? Surely they should be independent inorder to be subjective, isn't that what journalists are...
Why do Team USA feel they need to bring their own Journalists? Surely they should be independent inorder to be subjective, isn't that what journalists are supposed to be?
have you read some of the Us magazine reports on the MXDN?... it's mainly just about the US team and their weekend not really the race itself ... and mostly photos of the AMA riders. not exactly independent.

But of course GuyBs report... we won't even know he is American... he will be so neutral ha ha Tongue
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GuyB 9/29/2009 10:43am
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Actually, I'm not going this year. But you can expect a cool Vital MX report from Jeffrey Beerdsen. Jeffrey's cool with keeping things neutral, too. Smile

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Paul-Africa wrote:
Dumb Question: How do they get the rigs there?
For '07, as I understood it, most visiting teams had to pay to rent a team semi, from a US team. I heard anywhere from $5-10k for the week, depending on how far it had to travel back and forth to BC.
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you're not? you will be missing out GuyB- I think it will be one of the best atmospheres ever, I was at the Italien GP last year and it was crazy the MXDN will be even better!! Il check the report for Dutch Bias ( HErlings) ha ha Cheerful
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Paul-Africa wrote:
Dumb Question: How do they get the rigs there?
Highsider wrote:
For '07, as I understood it, most visiting teams had to pay to rent a team semi, from a US team. I heard anywhere from $5-10k...
For '07, as I understood it, most visiting teams had to pay to rent a team semi, from a US team. I heard anywhere from $5-10k for the week, depending on how far it had to travel back and forth to BC.
Italy where in a U haul truck....
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rocrac 9/29/2009 10:50am
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Neutral Smeutral. I wanna hear about some good ole American Ass kicking. With all do respect to the other competitors of course.
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Paul-Africa wrote:
Dumb Question: How do they get the rigs there?
Highsider wrote:
For '07, as I understood it, most visiting teams had to pay to rent a team semi, from a US team. I heard anywhere from $5-10k...
For '07, as I understood it, most visiting teams had to pay to rent a team semi, from a US team. I heard anywhere from $5-10k for the week, depending on how far it had to travel back and forth to BC.
mccread wrote:
Italy where in a U haul truck....
...while their bikes were sitting in customs until the last minute.
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GuyB wrote:
Actually, I'm not going this year. But you can expect a cool Vital MX report from Jeffrey Beerdsen. Jeffrey's cool with keeping things neutral, too. Smile
he is??? we'll see about that.... he has to spend the whole weekend with kardy, which is enough to put anyone off americans... Wink
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GuyB wrote:
Actually, I'm not going this year. But you can expect a cool Vital MX report from Jeffrey Beerdsen. Jeffrey's cool with keeping things neutral, too. Smile
ayearinmx wrote:
he is??? we'll see about that.... he has to spend the whole weekend with kardy, which is enough to put anyone off americans... Wink
Whole weekend??
Make that a week, including driving him down to Italy and back to Amsterdam. That's about 1500 miles. I'll think I hate the US by then. Laughing
I'll do my best to keep it neutral though. Wink
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ayearinmx wrote:
he is??? we'll see about that.... he has to spend the whole weekend with kardy, which is enough to put anyone off americans... Wink
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rocrac wrote:
Neutral Smeutral. I wanna hear about some good ole American Ass kicking. With all do respect to the other competitors of course.
Last I checked we are "Americans" I don't want anyone else to win. I'm NOT neutral.
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FastEddy 9/29/2009 2:15pm
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I wonder if TFS is going over there again this year?
He used to bring us some pretty good pre-race detailed info.
Like what kinda cars the American riders rented and all sorts of stuff to make us feel like we were there.
Hopefully Jefro can come through with some super cool stuff!
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Trip 9/29/2009 3:09pm
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Really, how important is the race if Gibby and JBS are not attending?? Wink
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GuyB 9/29/2009 4:10pm
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I didn't say we weren't covering it, I just said that I'm not going. Wink

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