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Hasn't Prado been collecting a paycheck and calling it in every weekend all year? Well the half of the year he wasn't injured anyway.
Great insight from Kawi’s main test rider on Prado’s setup and what was being done to help him.
https://youtu.be/_vkjt4pb_QU
Even if Prado DOES podium on a KTM/GG at MXDN, I can’t imagine the echo chamber he lives in that says future teams will accept his lack of accountability and team trashing. Seems unreal.
He raced his factory gas gas against everyone last yr and got smoked at mxdn.
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Great interview in general!
Nothing about Prado has anything to do with Reed or any other rider. This is a multi-year multi-million dollar contract Prado signed with an international multi-billion dollar international company. Kawasaki does not give fuck one about a contract signed ten years ago with some Ausie. They do not give shit one about RV when he was in Eurooe. They have share holders and board members that care about the multi-billion dollar now. And some piss ant from Spain that they pay millions to right now, with a support staff the size of the supporting cast of the Ben Hur movie shit talking them pisses them off no doubt.This dumbass is pissing off the wrong kind of people. Who does he think he is dealing with.
Man I wish Jason would've stayed healthy this year just to see the contrast when these bad motos happened. Give Prado, Anderson's 24 or 23 outdoor season results and we're here talking about what a successful season it would have been. Which also shows you how low the bar for being an acceptable season this year was for him. Now, no matter where he races next year, the expectations, pressure, and scrutiny is going to be off the charts.
Great interview.
Kawi USA spend 8 races and Taka comes over and immediately find things that they throw in the bike next weekend that improves it drastically.
I think Prado wont find what he need on Showa spring forks. Its well know that its difficult to run suspension that holds up well but is plush/soft at same time on springs. That's why pretty much everyone is on air on Austrian bikes and they use air or hybrid on Yamaha i guess.
40-50k for a factory frame, jesus? 😄
Maybe Jason didn't want to ride the bike outdoors?
This!
”Kawi USA spend 8 races and Taka comes over and immediately find things that they throw in the bike next weekend that improves it drastically.”
-”The team were surprised”…
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Moto 2 Jett, Eli, Hunter and Tim went past him like he was standing still
Still beating a lot of the guys 2 of 3 times that weekend. With Kawi he hasn`t even been close this year.
Its not the bike its between the ears
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Herlings rode a us spec ktm and smoked everyone at Ironman
Herlings didn`t change brand. Vialle choosed to ride his AMA bike at MXoN with good results.
He tried to not qualify on the weekend to get sacked.
He never takes any responsibility for setting the bike up.
He is bad mouthing Kawi to the world.
ITS NOT THE BIKE
Put Jett on it and he smokes the field.
Taka also said in an interview on Gypsy Takes that he tested the factory Showa suspension and was questioning whether it was actually any good, then rode stock suspension and it was better.
I can’t imagine Kawi was happy with him putting that out there but Taka’s a straight up dude.
Pit Row
Maybe Jason didn't want to ride at all.
Jett got third because his shock setup was off a few weeks ago. He aint smoking anyone if the bike isnt near perfect.
Third is still a hell of a lot better than riding around at 50% and acting like a spoiled brat.
well, 50% gave him 6th. So 100% would have gotten him championship then.
He has ridden at 90-98% of the leaders pace, being uncomfortable and "riding around".
Can take the first or the second, you chose.
Not accurate. He said he came over from Japan with new parts that they installed and immediately found made a big improvement. Not sure why people want to make it look like the US Kawi team is inept. In this case they just didnt have access to new factory parts until the factory test rider brought them here.
If anyone here has ever actually ridden a motocross bike with skill, then you know that they can feel like a miracle at 5/10ths, still really good at 7/10ths, and then feel like a complete death trap at 11/10ths - especially once you're tired. I think Prado firmly believes this about the KX now and doesn't care what it takes to free himself from what might happen if he stays on that bike and pushes it to 11 for the next two or three years. And I don't blame him. If you already have money (and he does), your HEALTH should trump everything else by a country mile, even the sacred reputation of the Great Green God, Kawasaki. This from a man who's current race bike is a Kawasaki - and I love the damn thing.
Prado is willing to speak the truth with candor even if it costs him both a fortune in cash and his reputation in the industry. In my weird little world, that's a man worth knowing.
The biggest takeaway for me was the fact that Febvre is on a production frame and swingarm. This means that there is no reason Prado couldn’t get his bike setup identically to what is currently leading the world championship. It is hard to believe that the best he can do on the world championship leading bike is somewhere outside the top 10. Either A) Prado isn’t trying at all, or B ) the level of racing is really that much higher in the AMA.
He got 6th because so many fast riders were out. Probably would have gotten 10th. And he was getting beat by privateers riding a factory bike.
Flame me all you want, he's acting like a pussy. Needs to grow some balls, take some accountability and move on.
The take I’ve seen repeated many times of ‘“ even stew rode until he cartwheeled on the pos jgr 2010 that he hated” is one of the most inbred takes I’ve seen.
Yeah totally 👌 , you should blindly push until you could end your season or your career rather than having brains.
Even mathes repeated that line on pulps show this week. I love most of what mathes does and the content, but that’s such a shit take.
He did go on to say, look he’s 6th overall In points, it’s not even bad honestly. He just needed to keep his mouth shut because American to euro translation is not going well. As much as Americans want people to be open, they actually just want political robot canned answers lol.
“they just didnt have access to new factory parts until the factory test rider brought them here”
This tells me Kawi USA wasn’t doing all they could as soon as they could. Taka brought them here on request, why not sooner given the urgency?
Hindsight is 20/20, perhaps Kawi USA thought they were almost there on setup perpetually, and then finally raised the alarm for Taka’s help late. But it does beg the question given Kawi USA’s reputation (from Tomac days) as being hard to work with.
The team had already developed a number of different parts they could use to get the bike working for each riders specific wants. They ran through all the previously developed parts and found they needed something new/different for Prado. Those new parts were developed, tested, manufactured and flown from Japan and then installed and tested again here. None of this happens overnight.
He also said Febvre has been there forever. The whole bike is built around Febvre.
It's like asking Jett to ride Tomacs setup and expect a podium.
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