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Great interview.
Hearing Tickle talk about working with Marchbanks, it sounded to me like he had the desire to be more involved with Chase but maybe Chase wasn't interested?
JA21 had Tickle with him a lot in 2022 and those results were pretty top tier, albeit a different generation.
Something i just remembered while reading through this.
Back in the day when Zach Osborne came to race GP's for Steve Dixon's Yamaha team, they built 3 Speed 250's and i believe that Zacho used to rev the bike so hard, the stock cases would only do a couple races if that. I believe that they did their own billet cases, at one point, and i know they did a 4 Valve head as well.
But the point of the post, Zacho would test the bike, and come back in and say it didnt feel 'quite right', and ask them to retorque everything, and it always went up a bit. Nothing was 'loose' but it wasnt fully tight and loaded up.
He will be doing a great job for Beta.
It’s a long story*, but not exactly. It was still a good bike but could’ve been even better had they been a bit more supportive.
(*which is why I put it all down in a book).
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This is just insane! 🤣
Imagine this mindset is still real at Kawi? WTF?!
@LewisPhillips , when is the Mitch podcast happening?
its amazing how much guys like Matthes refuse to see what's in front of them. They just say the guys at Kawi are smart, they'll figure it out.
it's the same thing that was being said before factory Yamaha switched to star.
Maybe we should have all seen this coming. Rider who expects way too much from a bike joins a team that doesn't know how to set up there bike. not a good recipe.
Maybe we should have all seen this coming. Rider who expects way too much from a bike joins a team that doesn't know how to set up there bike. not a good recipe.
This is exactly what I thought when I read he was going to Kawi.
Well now with SX season out the window, hopefully can focus on getting the green pig dialed for outdoors.
Same generation bike in 23, new bike wasn't until 24.
Broc’s hands are tied by a couple buffoons that think they know better. To have the simple mindset that if “x rider” can win on it then Chase should too is idiotic. In no way should a person that has never gotten off the Vet track be allowed to set the parameters to operate within on a motorcycle. Each and every pro’s bike is probably 80% similar in setup with the last 20% being extremely personal to each individual. That’s the part where Bruce and Mike need to listen and make change and stop with the idiotic belief that they know otherwise.
I agree with all of that. In other threads I have tried to figure out how the team has not been completely reorganized starting with the top. It doesn't mean they have to fire everyone, but someone else clearly needs to be driving the ship. It is a failing business and the manager/leadership is responsible for that.
That was superb, thank you!
Average Joe here, bike feels perfect
Matthes, Weege and their type are the same people who say the broadcast team is great and that broadcasting is a hard job and that the fans don't know what they are talking about and have no right or basis to judge how the sport is presented. To your point, 110%, what I mean by that is....
That was a very cool and informative interview. Well done Lewis And Broc seems like a solid dude. The part about changing all those triple clamps was really interesting.
I think Chase and Kawi will eventually get the bike dialed in, but it's definitely taking a lot longer than it should.
I can't figure out how Chase could look so good in the race he won, then so bad in the races after that?
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