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If you’re doubting his shock blew, then you are either blind or don’t know much about riding dirt bikes.
Especially when you take into account his hand injury that hampered his results for about 3 races, if I remember correctly. He was cruising around the back of the top 10 one race with his bad hand and before that he was getting better every race. But I guess the argument is the hand injury is on him. I'm not ready to make any declarative statements yet. I'll let Chase do that
When I'm watching the race and I talk to RC like he's in the room, it's not good. I used to do it with Ralph all the time. Not so much with RC, as bad as he is. Last night I was like, "STFU Ricky!" My gf just sits there and laughs at me. Get it all out, she says lol
The worst part for me was when he tried so hard to question why Deegan try to clean up his riding style instead of giving him credit for trying to do what he can to perfect him self as a rider.
I can’t stand the whole Deegan clown-show but i really like that they try to get rid of his amateur riding style and adapt to the modern way of riding a bike.
Bailey or JS would never have sounded that stupid on the broadcast as RC did there..
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Watched in slomo, right, it's the shock.
Still surprised by the amount of smoke and the fact that he went past the third whoop...
If I’m sexton I’m telling ktm to keep my 1-2 million dollar contract and go get on another brand.
Ktm had a throttle recall in the early to mid 2010s. I'm sure after that debacle of injuring many riders the lawyers said you can never ever talk about the throttle assembly sticking, so throttle body it is 🤭
It would take a miracle for a rock to hit the throttle body. The throttle housing maybe.
Agreed, they need to post a pic of that for it to be believable. That's like saying a rock caused Roczen's shock to explode.
Obviously it takes a while to sort a bike out but he doesn’t look at one with the bike yet. Glad he is banged up and will be ok
Wow good thing that rock missed hitting his leg or he may have bled out.
Could it simply have been a case of "Whiskey Throttle"?
The rock story just seems so unlikely. Guys race KTMs in the desert with lots of rocks. Or does Chase have some ultra-lightweight throttle body??? We will never know. I admire Kenny..."shock broke". Not a "rock" broke my shock.
So Sextons switch to KYB forks wasn't a game changer?
I thought no bike was rideable without sss inserts jammed in?
It will never happen but Sexton would actually suit the Suzuki, the front would be what he likes and Roczen has proven it's capable. Hope he's all good
I think it was last week Brayton said on race day live he feels like it takes 8-10 months to get used to a new bike.
Last year with 3 races left sexton was 21 points behind tomac. This year with 3 races left he's 7 points behind him coming off a DNF. And this is evidence of chase having issues, or something?
Unless you're arguing that chase will never get comfortable on the KTM and all hope is already lost, I'm still not really bothered by any of this.
Jett is going to have same impact on other riders and teams that Nick Saban had on SEC football. Everyone self sabotaging trying to be like the once in a lifetime talent instead of just being best version of themselves.
The stock KTM throttle housings* are cast and do break, pretty sure the team runs a billet one like Nihilo makes to prevent issues.
Probably never get the truth, we have already seen how protective the team is of their brand/image
Touch a shock body right after someone is done riding, tell us all what you feel.
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I did as well until I saw the video in slow-motion from the side, posted in the Roczen thread. You can see the rear wheel compressing and rebounding several times on its own, clearly only running on the spring.
edit: just saw similar post and that you saw the video.
Chase could probably have been leading the points before last night if he didnt have that hand injury. How many points did he lose in those few rounds?
I feel like he had been doing pretty well on his new bike all things considered. Doesn't look as fast as he did on the Honda. But he had been incredibly consistent aside from those rounds he was riding injured.
Being closer in points than the same point of last year despite that hand injury. With a more stacked field. The crash has ruined his season. But before that he was having a solid season IMO.
Anybody thought with a tiny bit more juice he could have turned that into a double? Originally that's what I thought he was doing ha.
Im sorry but i think this is a bit crazy. These guys have grown up racing since they were kids no way it takes 8-10 months to get used to a new bike. It’s a dirt bike not an F1 car sorry. A lot of these guys struggling need to look in the mirror at them selves
Chase is so resilient, I swear. How many season ending getoffs has he had? He just bounces back.
I can't wait to see if he can get the speed up on thr KTM now that he seems more stable.
That was yelled in our house too. Carbon fiber incoming if it was damaged by roost etc.
Did you forget about Barcia giving everybody birthday presents when he sent Jett to the shadow realm?
No, it just doesn't have anything to do with anything I said.
Pretty sure Webb is on a new bike. So is AP, I believe.
RC is the goat...for now bcause Jett is coming
but I hope he stays in the booth, I love his commentary. as for sexton, He's a champion but will have to hope for some help against Donuts
When did webb start riding that bike? July? SMX and 5 months in at Paris he looked like garbage on it. 7-8 months in he looked like a different guy on it. Almost seems to support Brayton's theory.
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