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I'm digging through my brain at the moment and I'm going back to the interview with maybe RJ or someone that was excited at that mudder SX earlier in the year "I'm excited because I know the Honda's run hot".
It didn’t run Hot. The front fell off.
The ole banana in the tailpipe
Could have been as simple as the mechanic accidentally dropping some sand in the intake from changing the filter.
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They for sure didn’t prepare it with gauze pads and didn’t prepare with 10 quarts of quaker state antifreeze! 😂
Did we ever find out why Jett's bike blew up at Redbud last year?
The way the filter position is designed its very difficult to drop sand in the intake
Moto media will ask this simple and obvious question on camera with the team manager right? Right?
Well, there is that. But they can always say it was a different set of electronics than what they got from their sponsor. "Oh, the GET ignition was working fine! The problem was something deep inside the kowahinitsu conflubuglator. You never know when one of THOSE is going to blow!"
I always crack up when they say "electronics." They never mention that the electronics stopped working when the piston came through the cylinder head and smashed the ECU into component bits.
That's a fair statement. Maybe it's taboo? ML and Lewis have been asking some tough questions and it's very refreshing. I seem to remember Mitch getting grilled about a couple high profile failures a few years back.
It's all ball bearings now....
maybe you need a refresher course!
The technical answer is......Sand caused the Muffler Bearings to fail, creating an increase in back pressure which placed high forces on the Piston Return Spring, ultimately causing the Piston to hit the Exhaust Valve, resulting in a catastrophic explosion within the Cylinder and Cylinder Head area.
Don't forget Jett's bike grenaded last year also.
That was horrible.................. I loved it!!!!
Matthes mentioned that on Pulp this week.
Man, that fkr got hottt!
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Piston failure.
Muffler bearing burned up.
Blew the intake boot off as well .
70s GP story:
Works bike snapped in half. Official DNF explanation was ‘electrical failure’.
Mechanic in the beer tent Sunday night explained that when the bike broke, it snapped the wires leading to the coil. Hence the bike did indeed stop because of ‘electrical failure’…
😂 Like the early days of the modern four stroke- a dropped valve would hit the spark plug electrode and close the gap- no spark, electrical fault.
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