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He had two years to back it up and didn’t, while also being hard to work with
He had a Star offer for ‘24, Dylan choose the privateer route thinking it was going to be better, probably the same with leaving DV too. He wanted to be on that Honda for his whole career is what I think he said lol
Seems like the new gen Yamaha 450 is worse outdoors than the last.
Eli and Dylan were beasts on the old bike.
His results were better in ‘23 on the new gen Yamaha outdoors than they were on the Honda he wanted. But ya, they were beasts on that ‘22 Yamaha, hearing Tomac on that bike was insane lol
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more "changes". Ugh.
Anything top 5 is a huge win for him.
So they are finally doing what everyone else on works Showa suspension has been doing all year…..Time to remove the clowns at the top….the real question should be what took them so long…
I think it was the Thursday Matthes, JT, and Weege show where Steve said Chase tried to find another ride before outdoors. Not sure if he was just joking around but he snuck that little remark in very quickly, then they moved on. Anyone catch that?
He's been saying that in that same fashion for like a month or more now too. I don't think it's really a joke at all.
doesnt mean it will work though.
I have a feeling it's gonna be a tough summer for Chase. If he doesn't like the bike and we have Eli, Deegan, Prado, and the Hunter Bros. And the Coenans for a couple of races.
I was watching the Main Event blog last night and DB's take is that if Chase stays flat and level throughout this summer, it will be a win. I kind of agree. Be workmanlike, try to find a good setting, power through and gain some decent results, and prepare to be elite again for the next SX season.
EDIT: Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUIG3RP9pvE
It's on "lead story #5."
Well it is team Kawi….They are the architects of their own misfortune…..
Sounds like sexton is on active ride suspension now…..
If I'm a Kawi 450 team member right now I am making sure my resume is tightened the fuck up, especially if I'm in the suspension or engine department. All these salaries just to have Twisted doing engine/mapping and Active Ride valving stock suspension...
Kawi team manager role consists of taking a handful of production bikes, drop them off at Twisted and send suspension to Active Ride, go home and have a beer.
Mechanic scrubs the frame, installs 3rd party engine and suspension, also goes home and has a beer.
Maybe a lap on your MTB down Luge before the beers. Sounds like a great gig while it lasts.
It's evident Kawi needs to clean house, it all starts at the top!
Yeah and i want to win the lottery.People on that level that aspire to win don't just accept that 5th and 8th is what is on the table and we go again next year.
Your one to talk?
Pit Row
Do you mean 'you're'?
Mum will be proud of that image.
I like Chase seems like a nice kid.
I don't understand the following,
Hated the Honda couldn't trust the front end had to get off it. Didn't even say by to Lars..
Then cant get the KTM to go through whoops pre season and is going around them. Then doesn't like or trust the KTM. Apparently at some stage they weren't talking to the team.
Goes to Kawi and tells Matthes on a tailgate of a ute/ truck that he will have no issues. Somehow spends 3 mths on his set up and after round 1 throws that all away for a pro circuit 250 set up. Now months on still lost trying Active ride stock forks.
Surely this bike isn't that bad, maybe time to look in the mirror.
Star for 27 I guess!
Where does it come from that he hated the Honda? I always thought it just because he didn't like the situation with Jett coming up and only looking at being the #2 rider from now on?
The KTM deal is just as weird as with Kenny back then. Kenny also won on the KTM and looked great in his whole rookie season, even won the outdoor championship as an rookie vs Dungey on the KTM. But still didn't like the bike somehow and signed with RCH.
I'd guess Chase signed with Kawi long before outdoors last year even before the disaster with Prado happened. I'd be curious if that would have changed anything with his decision leaving KTM and signing with Kawi. I mean something is obviously going on with that team, there is no way two proven top guys all of the sudden look like that on the bike, even though Chase won races this year but that probably shows how good he is.
It's easy for us to say "The bike isn't bad", "it's not the bike, it's the rider".
But we have now seen two units look night and day on the Kawi. If Prado is a consistent podium guy while battling for wins while Chase is "chasing" top 5 finishes this summer, that only puts the nail in the coffin for me.
He talked crap about the Honda (and the KTM) for days when he rode there. Yes the Lawrence thing at Honda and management thing at KTM where problems but he did bash those bikes too.
Chase won championships and lots of races on Honda and ktm regardless of how he felt about the bike or the team. Always a head scratcher to me when people try to act like the kawasaki experience is just more of the same. It's not.
Nah its the same thing.
Put Jett or Hunter on Kawi and they win.
Yes lol. Its amusing tho
It’s the same thing. Yes and he won races on the Honda, KTM, and Kawi. Yes it’s a different level on the Kawi, but it’s the same thing.
Chase has said they need to work on the cornering of the bike but all we hear is that they are working on engine and suspension. Sounds like they need to focus on the chassis and or this is where Kawi is inflexible and Chase is frustrated about that.
Wait so you can win two SX races and the bike sucks?
Just ask JS7.
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