Chase changing the whole setup!?

This is what keeps me coming back to the Vital forums....well done. 

One round and they threw out the suspension components AND the linkage😅 That is just wild. 

And i wonder if Keefer still stands with his firm opinion in the aftermath of A1, that the bike IS NOT the issue.

Good thing he got off that POS Honda and that POS KTM

When is St. Patrick's Day ?

Until yesterday everyone was saying team kawasaki wasnt willing to change anything to accommodate the rider. Sounds like they're committed to helping chase with what he needs to wim races.

Of course, just as Webb leaving KTM gave them a reality check, Prado leaving did the same for Kawi. Not because Prado left, but because Kawi can under no circumstances allow Chase to be perceived to fail at the same time Kawi is perceived to have made no changes to their program.

Doesnt mean that it wasnt the case before. They kinda have to do something now lol

Relax, he's just taking the PC throwback serious!

It was already a big weekend for Sexton given the result last week, but this makes it even more important. If it’s another sub par performance and result then where do you even go having already thrown the kitchen sink at it after one round? 

Honestly… can we just set our expectations that this is just how Sexton is. 
I wouldn’t be surprised to see him win by 10 seconds this weekend and a 4th the next. 

I respect the hell out of what Chase brings to the table in this sport and genuinely think he’s a good dude but there is no doubt he is hands down one of the biggest mental midgets in the paddock. I’m not sure he will ever get ahold of it either. If he didn’t have the mistakes on the Honda or the Ktm you could maybe excuse it, but this is all on him. Reminds me a lot of James. One moment you’re in amazement of their capabilities, followed by the moment you’re amazed by their ability to make it all go wrong when it was all going so well. 

Meanwhile I think i heard that Roczen hasn't even made a clicker change from what he raced last year.

Luckily for chase and Kawi there isn’t anywhere else for him to go. They’ll get it figured out I bet, but it is going to take them a while. Neither one of them has a choice but to figure it out.

The bike looked awful in the race, but chase also made a lot of mistakes. The landing in the face of the jump was completely on him. I couldn’t help but keep thinking about Jorge saying that he could do one fast lap on that bike, but couldn’t put a race together for some reason.

I heard that Mitch has banned the whole team from eating paella during the season

He is not a mental case. Its his riding style and speed that makes him very sensitive to bike setup.

If you want to go 0.5-0.8sec faster than everyone else consistently, setup needs to be in point. Not even Jett can work around that. Jett is one out of 100 that can work around it slightly, but even him backed of and took a third when not comfortable on bike. And he has a more neutral riding style allowing for bigger window.

Chase could ride around with the setup he had last week and probably make it to podium. But that ain't good enough for him. Just as for Prado. 

This mental stuff is used way to easy for people that don't have another explanation. Mental can be applied when you make mistakes under pressure or making poor decisions under pressure. But that actually happening isn't often.

I wanted to have him in my fantasy picks, but if he's indecisive on setup, I'm leaving him out this week. Cmon Chase, and Kawi, please stay calm and make this work.

I want to know what’s up with the swingarm. There is a big circular weld partially covered by the DID logo. Reminds me of the two stroke linkage through hole. Added rigidity with the weld being there? Or something completely different 

I said this in the off-season, and its still true after Rd. 1. 

Chase and Kawi really screw up by not doing off-season races. Yeah, it's only one round, and he'll more than likely turn it around. But his main competition is already pretty far ahead of him on points. All of the top guys who raced some or all of those off-season races finished ahead of him. Tomac got passed by Deegan in Australia, and then came out swinging at A1 because he figured out his setup under race conditions. Roczen rode amazing, just as he did in the off-season, and because he probably is still on his setup from 2016 and knows it works in a variety of conditions.

Chase thinks he is ALWAYS the guy, and never wants to show his cards to anyone until A1. Well, year after year it shows that even though he should be the guy, he continues to leave A1 as the race to figure out  bike setup. If this was MMA, chase would be getting knocked out in rd. 1 every fight. 

I did not pick Sexton to win today…..so he will win ….

Chase needs to revise the whole SETUP of his head. The damn Kawa was good enough to post a Qualy lap 0.6secs faster than the next best at A1.

Jett said it a while back, his HRC 450 had some issues, but him and Hunter adjusted and rode around those problems, and they got results

Chase easily can be on Jett's level, but his constant harping and seeking of the perfect setup has manifested itself into trying to perfect the fine tuning of a black art. It ain't gonna happen and he needs to be held accountable.

I've spent countless hours with the best chassis, Suspension and engine guys in the industry and the common consensus is that there ain't the perfect bike. 

The greats like Jeremy, Villo, Reed, Ricky, Dungey. I'll throw in Stew, all had gray areas with their equipment. Everything was not perfect but what made them great was their ability to adjust and adapt...

Chase arrived at San Diego with major changes. It ain't gonna work in the long run. It may work for one evening and we will see the entire team get broken down over the next few weeks. These guys put in looong hours only to have their rider grab parts from PC. I can tell you now that the morale over there can't be good.

Chase will grenade himself again.

This is why I stopped playing fantasy 

If he gets on the podium, will he be thanking Pro Circuit Kawasaki?

Is anyone surprised?  

It’s all gonna come down to his results. If he does well he’ll be vindicated. Poorly it’s the same old chase. 

That should tell everyone that whatever is happening over at kawi isn’t working. You had two riders not finish the season last year (maybe Anderson was actually hurt, who knows) one rider quit leaving millions of dollars on the table. The two new riders, one crashes in the heat, one doesn’t make it through the heat, then crashes in the lcq and doesn’t make the main. Also, crashes during the week and misses a round. Then you got chase who looked like an average sx racer on the weekend, and now has a full set up from a different company. Sounds to me like Kawasaki corporate should look at this and go “yeah something needs to change here”. Morale might be low at Kawasaki, but it’s on them. 

seems a bit of a knee jerk reaction, but it makes sense to utilize the Mitch / pro circuit brain trust if needed..

they even changed the graphics in the last 48 hours. What happened to the Chevy Trucks throwback???

Seems wild to change that much. I could see swapping the shock and forks. Going to different link and clamps is changing a lot of variables. Guess we will see if it was worth it tonight.

Find a good base. Make changes one at a time, so you don't get lost. Don't throw the kitchen sink at it.

Putting in a qualification lap on a decent track, and riding 20min at the end of a night is not comparable. Anyone that has done testing knows that. You will get away with a lot earlier in a race day during sprint laps.

Non of the riders in the field today can ride around a bike that they are not comfortable on and still podium. None. Shock was slightly off for Jett and he had to settle for a third last season. So not even he can do it.

Certain riders have speed because of how they setup their bikes and need to hit that window. Dungey was no exception, he didn't ride around anything and end up winning.

I get tired of listening to people being 20-30sec a lap slower on a national track, repeatedly telling championship winning riders how to handle their bike setup.

Chase ain't winning riding around a setup issue. He is here to win championships, so there really isn't any option is there.

Being from Illinois I'm a Chase fan, not saying it isn't difficult at times though.