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Wrong fuel. Need use fuel with the Pectin🐚🐚.
But isn’t making wholesale changes putting blame on the bike?
Putting aside how the Prado-Kawi relationship degraded last year, it absolutely was the bike; Jorge re-appeared at A1 and confirmed it was the Kawi by winning his heat race and getting third on the KTM.
You can say that Prado should have tried harder to make the Kawi work, that a top level pro should be able to ride any factory bike to podium, but the only thing that changed in Prado's world is the bike and team.
Sexton has been able to win, crash, and hit the gate any bike he's been on. No surprise there. What Chase does on a bike has no relevance to Prado and Kawi; only what Prado does on Kawi or KTM.
Decoster's recent comments on Prado's setup sort of confirmed what I was thinking throughout last summer - Prado didn't know what he wanted and had the Kawi team chasing their tails. KTM group in Europe knew the secret sauce and was probably having a good laugh.
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How much did they change the bike from the std team template for Chase?
Let’s see…fork, shock, triple clamp…other special chassis parts? If I’m not mistaken, they switched to PC kit parts and clamps along with a few other new chassis tuning parts…? Is the shock a hybrid of works and kit…?
This isn’t Apples to Apples when comparing Chases bike to last year’s bike. The Team has been allowed to “look outside the box”. I’m completely stoked for them…& guess what? It’s Working.
That team…that rider…that crew…from Dan to Rango…all…belong on The Box.
It has also been reported that they found 20% with the 450 from last season, so they must have been pretty far off in the first place. You would also have to think that they don’t want the same thing to happen again. Whether they thought what happened last season wasn’t their fault or not, if you have a rider willing to give up $6M+ just to get off your team then I would hope that would lead to some kind of self reflection
RC, that you???
The bike also got a PC linkage and a longer header pipe for more bottom end power.
AP shock caused him to crash?
We’ll never know as that info usually doesn’t come out until down the road someday but AP did say he had no idea why the bike did what it did. From the issues last year it isn’t a stretch to think it MAY have been a shock issue. Of course maybe there was a kicker no one hit on that jump all day also?
I think we have all jumped on bikes and thought...how the eff is this thing even rideable? There is no doubt some bikes just feel weird to people. The older Yamahas (2000-2005 or so) always felt fkng oddball to me. I could never get myself to get one even though the 125 had the great engine. The CR, though a bit slower, was such a great feeling and ergo bike. The Kawi was like a riding a pig. Just wide everywhere. I can't imagine at the pro level how they do it from one brand to the next.
I think that possibly after the horribly public break up between Prado and Kawasaki may have to the team being more open to changes than what they were in the past. I mean, they took the suspension off of a Pro Circuit and slapped it on their factory 50. That is something I don’t exactly see them doing in the last few years.
But I will give a huge kudos to chase for you being willing to try every last thing.
He hasn`t been that comfortable with the bike until now?
All new WP stuff over there compared to last year
Why is it so far off to think that Chase having ridden multiple brands now (and fast at that) is successful in asking for meaningful changes that are positive to his riding?
One of the interviews mentioned how the original setup for him based on Jason Anderson settings didn't work for him.
Here we are, Chase with a win as proof of positive changes.
Thankfully you’re on here to psychoanalyze us and call out our projection😂😂😂
Didn't Jorge also get a second in his first heat race on the Kawi?
Where’s my dang beating a dead horse emoji
Pit Row
I wish.
A rider that doesn't quit and mail it in for the season?
It was absolutely the bike for Jorge. His results show that clearly. Some riders are talented enough to win on anything like Chase and Eli. Jorge, not so much
Prado is doing fine. If you expected him to be contending for wins by rd. 3 you’re delusional. This is kawi’s first win in 4 years, and it took an entire front end swap to get there.
Well looking at the top tier of every sport and what decides these guys results is like 1-5% usually. If a guy is 10% more comfortable on a steel chassis then that is a pretty big ordeal. I’m not a fan of Prado giving up in outdoors last year but if you sit back and look at it, that makes a lot of sense. I’m a fan of all these guys and only want the best out of the best each race. So get them on the bike they love and let’s see them rip!
Outdoors is where we see
Sort of like going from gf to gf. Need to adapt. No?
Your comparison is kinda weak. While you’re right that MC hated the 97 CR250 (first gen AL frame for any manufacturer) and switched to a steel frame, he also went back to Honda on a third gen AL frame and ran with the lead pack during his retirement tour. It wasn’t the material, it was the lack of development on the 97 Honda.
Jorge couldn’t ride a fully developed AL frame, and made himself look really bad in the process. He does look a lot better on Orange, but that doesn’t erase the last year..
Double layer meaning. Big respect on this post.
Said it before and I believe it still to be accurate.
Never was the bike, it was Jorge's inability to set up the bike to work like he wanted it to. And his inability to adapt to a bike that wasn't exactly what he was looking for. The whole "it's dangerous" BS was just too much to take for many of us former fans.
Back on the KTM, he doesn't have to set the bike up, it works "his way" with their standard setup. And we see it in the results so far. He's wildly better on the KTM in my opinion.
Nobody gonna talk about how Ando all of a sudden looks really fast again on yellow after being a mid pack guy for the last couple years?
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