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He’s usually fast af, there have been no flashes since he won. Quit fucking with the bike and just ride it
If you want to compare Prado to Chase then it kind of looks even worse. All from a guy who has less gate drops on a SX track than you have fingers and toes...
I feel the bike is still a steer with the rear and Chase needs to figure it out. Deegz would probably do good on that bike.
Suzuki drops factory team, HEP recovers and builds brand with two elite level riders in Roczen and Andersen.
Yamaha fumbles factory 450 team and creates reputation of "blue pig", let's 250 team (Star) take over. Championship winning under Tomac and Webb.
Kawasaki......
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If you're chasing a feeling that doesn't exist, it doesn't matter where he goes.. Chase needs to just accept the bike won't ever be perfect and take more accountability. When he gets this 'feeling' he is arguably one of the fastest people on the planet, but it is very apparent at this point that he is a severe headcase.
Kawasaki 250 and 450 were sharing the frame in 22'.
Not sure if they still are, but I can tell you, at my very slow speeds, the 22' & 24' 250's are the best handling MX bikes I've ever owned. They have blown my mind on stabilty in fast straights to either carving tight deep ruts to powering around a bermed corner. I run stock clamps on both, and only my 22' has a PC Linkage and Link.
They either are just that much different than the 450's or maybe they just fit me well.
Or maybe I don't know what I'm missing and would be blown away even more the other brands handling?
But yeah, zero complaints on the handling from me and I've had ill handling bikes before
He's working for HRC now.
Right on, thank you for clarifying. I’ll have to check this one out tonight.
I don't think their ability to secure a top rider is awesome at this point already. But that wasn't my point here. My point was it is Ironic that most riders issues with Kawasaki, would probably benefit Chase at this point. I mean it's apparent that Chase doesn't know how to test or set up a bike either.
Would you agree, or do you think it's better for Chase to have an open canvas? Actual Question BTW.
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2021 is when they started sharing. It actually became a common complaint on the 250 that there was a lack of front end bite because they didn't move the motor forward in the frame when they should have. There's still a big gap between the frame and motor.
You think it was Weimers wife’s fault the bike was shit?
Dan and the Drunk have no idea how to setup a motorcycle, but yet act like they do. If they would both put their ego aside and let the people who actually know what they are doing, do it, it could be a great team. Weimer was/is a great test rider, they didn’t listen to him, they didn’t listen to Eli, and they won’t listen to Chase either. They will continue to be a shit team until they can find another RV type rider that can win on any bike. When KYB was helping Eli, they didn’t even know what rake and trail were, how the he’ll can you run a professional race team and not know that?
Oof. Giving Uptite a run for his money with the scoops. Who is the Drunk? What's the detail on KYB not understanding geometry?
So i listened and to be honest there wasnt a lot that i hadnt already heard, save for Jake calling out Fahie for being a liar.
But as i always bang on about, there are people in Factory Teams, that would rather lose than win with something that wasnt their idea, and this 100% confirms it.
In 2009/10 we had six different sets of clamps, 3 Specs of Swingarms, and 3 different linkage shock clevis set ups for our SXV 450 Aprilia's , and we were working out of the corner of a barn.
3 Sets of Ice Parts clamps. 19/17 Offset, 17/14 and 14/11 , and then 2 sets with an degree of rake taken out , swingarms at -25, -40 and -50 length, and then ride height at +5 and +10, and each one that made the bike better , we went again , until it either didnt work, or the benefits were lost elsewhere. i reckon £10k total, and we sold probably 50 or 60 sets worldwide after.
And Jake Weimer on a Factory Kawasaki couldn't get anything. As Weimer rightly pointed out , they killed his career, and the only justification was that it worked for RV, who had never ridden anything else and had no clue what a good bike was.
I like Chase, i dont want him to fail, but Christ he has a job on his hands.
And no wonder Jorge sacked it off, if only he had done some homework before he went.
With regard to prado and chase lacking judgment by signing with kawi, it shows you how pointless test riding a bike is. What you feel riding at 80% for a few laps doesn't tell you much about what you'll find when looking for that last few percent.
And for all the rear steer talk, maybe I'm imagining things but in the RV days it seems like a lot more hard pack dusty bowl turns and less rutted tracks than now. Hard to swing that rear around when it's in a rut.
Anyone catch Steve on pulp basically saying the chase ktm relationship went bad from the start because chase caught Ian Harrison in a lie? He threw this out there as if it was a guess but I found it to be far too specific of a thing to just throw out there as speculation. Felt like he knew exactly what he was saying and wanted Lewis to take the bait and expand on it. Or maybe I'm reading way too much into a throw away comment.
Crazy to think that RV2 was a beast his whole career. Imagine how much better he would have been if he had a bike that was actually "good."
What was the lie?
No idea. Steve threw it out there when talking about how interpersonal things at KTM went south immediately and that at least doesn't seem to be the case at kawasaki. It was just an oddly specific throw away comment I thought.
RV didnt know any better.
If he had got to a good bike, he might even have raced a few more years.
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What could hurt...? Give to 450 Program to Mitch and I bet that bike sings.
News flash, a bike every regular rider thinks is awesome because it's comfortable isn't great for one of the fastest riders in the world in a discipline that only the top 1% of riders race. Man, who would have thought...
Is the Kawasaki a bad bike for everyday riders? No, it's a great bike.
Is it great for professional racing? Moto is probably okay, supercross probably not.
Prado said it was okay in sx but dangerous in mx so that doesn’t look good for sexton!
I have said this quite a few times. Chase likes a softer setup for feeling in his hands. The initial part of the stroke becomes super twitchy and then you watch his bike. Corner entry the bike is unstable, then he waits through mid corner and the bike settles again. But when he hits the throttle it squats so much from the load under acceleration it robs his forward momentum.
I am a nobody and can see his bike is super twitchy and not settled anywhere. Learn to understand the motorcycle, hire a coach to walk that path with you if need be. Either way, his bike needs to be stiffer to accept his ability to go so fast and muscle it around.
Last updates I heard were the frame was stiffened and the forks softened.
This stuff takes time, and when you look at someone like Eli who knows exactly what he wants out of his motorcycle compared to Chase who is looking for a “feeling” but doesn’t know how to get there. Naturally this will take longer.
News flash if anyone thinks it’s the bike and not the inbred team around it , man who would have thought.
needs a crossbar....
Mitch needs to worry about getting his 250s to win first...
I don't recall where Mitch took a championship caliber rider and dragged him down. Hell, they are using his suspension components anyways.
PC bikes aren't the problem....and minus one fast Yamaha rider, PC really wouldn't have many problems at all thus far in 2026.
Well Chase tested the Kaw plenty like a year ago before signing so pretty much on him.
Evident by the fact that he calls it a "feeling". If you knew what the "feeling" was then you would be a lot better at describing what you are looking for. I think he's had so many people (his dad) telling him what he likes and needs his whole life, that he himself does not know what that is anymore.
James is better at describing what the bike is doing from TV than Chase is.
KYB knew what it was and was trying to explain it to one particular guy on the team to get their components to work with the way Eli rides. That guy had no idea what they were talking about. That same guy fired Gilly because he was doing stuff to get the chassis better that they didn’t agree with.
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