25 Shitbox Honda looking good :)

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Edited Date/Time 1/20/2025 12:17am

All the crap I read last week about the 25 Honda and now look at qualifying. 
Looks like they made some progress and maybe should of tested in Cali!

Mates got two 25 450 and raves about them….

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1/18/2025 2:55pm Edited Date/Time 1/18/2025 2:57pm

It must be a shitbox because I have never heard folks make more excuses for a bike. Strange last year nobody wanted to hear when Chase complained about the bike and called him a whiner.

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1/18/2025 2:56pm

The massive oversteer is still there.

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1/18/2025 2:59pm

Did the 25 HRC get the fake holeshot yet?

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1/18/2025 5:47pm

cool story bro 

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1/18/2025 5:49pm
MxAddic wrote:
It must be a shitbox because I have never heard folks make more excuses for a bike. Strange last year nobody wanted to hear when Chase...

It must be a shitbox because I have never heard folks make more excuses for a bike. Strange last year nobody wanted to hear when Chase complained about the bike and called him a whiner.

Hasn't everyone complained about the change to the KTM chassis since '22?

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1/18/2025 6:06pm

I hear excuses. Literally. The smx rounds they rode they said it was soooo good.. could they have put 25 plastics on their 24 race bikes or something like others are doing?

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1/18/2025 6:50pm

It's over for the old dogs tonight. Jetts chassis is dialed. 

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1/18/2025 8:35pm Edited Date/Time 1/18/2025 8:42pm

Not bad for a shit box !

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1/18/2025 9:07pm

Was never a bike issue.  Lawrence bros had an off week and that is all

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1/18/2025 9:08pm

It's over for the old dogs tonight. Jetts chassis is dialed. 

I love when posts age well....

 

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Was never a bike issue.  Lawrence bros had an off week and that is all

Lars claims the bike was never as bad as people thought. I wonder where they got that idea?

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1/18/2025 9:23pm

Jett wasn't going to push it. He knows he's only going to get faster week after week. I'd say the Honda chassis looks fine.

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Jett wasn't going to push it. He knows he's only going to get faster week after week. I'd say the Honda chassis looks fine.

No, it STILL oversteers. Out of every bowl corner or flat corner without a rut you can see the back tyre brake loose in a way that neither the KTM or Yamaha does.

This will probably go away when they get to the east coast, but the bike is still far from on point.

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1/19/2025 2:03am

Tinfoil hat take: they ran a 24 frame this weekend..

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1/19/2025 6:20am

Jett wasn't going to push it. He knows he's only going to get faster week after week. I'd say the Honda chassis looks fine.

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No, it STILL oversteers. Out of every bowl corner or flat corner without a rut you can see the back tyre brake loose in a way...

No, it STILL oversteers. Out of every bowl corner or flat corner without a rut you can see the back tyre brake loose in a way that neither the KTM or Yamaha does.

This will probably go away when they get to the east coast, but the bike is still far from on point.

I did notice on one of the 180 turns that both Hunter and Jett looked like they were going to run off the track from oversteer consistently. Lost a lot of time there. 

On pulp this week they were talking about bike setups and how the guys run the sag really high. Obviously you would think just run the sag lower but I wonder what issues that’s causing for them to not do that. 

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Philly215 wrote:
I did notice on one of the 180 turns that both Hunter and Jett looked like they were going to run off the track from oversteer...

I did notice on one of the 180 turns that both Hunter and Jett looked like they were going to run off the track from oversteer consistently. Lost a lot of time there. 

On pulp this week they were talking about bike setups and how the guys run the sag really high. Obviously you would think just run the sag lower but I wonder what issues that’s causing for them to not do that. 

Yes, it’s clear that they have a traction problem in the rear.

Now I have said multiple times regarding Sexton and the same goes for Jett that a good rider needs to be able to work around imperfections in the settings, and I think he did that good last night. 

 

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