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I might have to listen to it again I think he said the biggest issue was the power. It didn't have that grunt down low torque? He even said you can get a little car to do the same speed as a Ferrari, but it is how the Ferrari gets to that speed is what makes it.. Something long them lines.
Just pondering if this knee is a sideline for a few rounds, I would ask for the new 2027 and start on that thing now maybe do a last couple outdoors and SMX give him time to sort another new bike way early and just focus on that and get it to where it need to be for SMX and next year.
That was what Prado meant when he said the Kawi lacked power. It’s okay on the start, but if you’re a guy who likes to pull gears early in the curve or lug a high gear in corners, you need grunt.
Kawi needs to outsource their 450 effort once and for all
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Take a year off Chase.
Just found this, from the other angle. It was on the big triple top of the track. You can see the finish line to the right in the original video
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17icoPd47X/?mibextid=wwXIfr
welp.
full throttle. Check.
big brake lock. check.
loss of ignition afterwards. check.
"out of my control"
maybe altitude/tuning related. or flywheel too light.
Any word on whether he’s going to line up on Saturday or sit it out?
Yep, can still hear his bike after the lip, and see his right leg move forward prior to the nose dropping.
Very surprising
Wait, there’s people who believe Chase Sexton forgot how to brake tap his motorcycle?
hes already headed home
Anderson could make the bike work, loose and off the back.
This comment gave me ptsd. But surprisingly the bike that everybody said blew up the most I never had an issue with was those kxf rmz250
looks like complete sabotage
Beastie Boys, you say?
Dissenting opinion here, but are we sure this was a bike malfunction?
The video looks somewhat like a Chadapult-style OJ to me.
The "out of my control" comment could just mean he missed a kicker on the jump face.
I know these guys can handle torn up jumps in their sleep, but mistakes do happen to the best of them. Think of Kenny at A2 in '17.
You're smoked.
The 2004 was a toilet but the 2005 was all better.
Pit Row
Nothing like the chadapult imo; Reedy’s bike broke loose on the jump face and pitched him. That’s not what happened here.
Oops, just saw the FB video. I don't see a kicker, although it still might have been a "forgot where I was on the track" OJ. Sexton had one of those in SX this year, I can't remember which round.
And we probably will never get the true story what happened. Chase was vague because he would most likely get reprimanded by Kawi, and Kawi, especially at these times would never admit that the bike quit on him.
That was another brutal hit that he bounced up from. Chase Norris?!
Yep, Reed’s rear hit a rock or kink in the rut and kicked sideways. He was doomed by half way up the jump face.
It’s press day, the track is smooth as glass. And I hardly doubt he forgot where he was a motocross track he probably has 300 plus laps on. This is not SX where he jumping in to a 3 - quad- step on double with a 3’ transfer in between each obstacle for only a few laps.
He didn’t hit a rock, his rear wheel spun out damn near sideway on the face of the jump.
That motor didn't grenade. If a motor grenades mid-air the bike has a pretty violent reaction and that didn't really happen here. He also reportedly rode the bike back to the pits and you aren't riding a bike that just exploded the motor.
I can't believe he got up after that and was able to walk off to the side of the track! It was a terrible crash to happen but Im glad it was caught on camera, if it wasn't and we just got news Chase was out this weekend due to a press day crash I feel like the pitch forks would have been flying. Nice to see most people here supporting the dude for change, it gets old seeing so many here kicking a dude while he's down and struggling to make things happen.
Good riders make mistakes when their head isn't in it and Chase's head definitely isn't in it under this Kawi tent. If Chase is out there thinking about somethign other than riding, understandable given the last week, he easily could have had a brainfart and stalled the bike. He forgot where he was on the track in sx earlier this year and that was wildly uncharacteristic.
That sure looks like the bike died when he tapped the brake.
I think he lost a hand off the bars, as well.
Yes you can stall them in the air by jabbing the rear brake and not pulling the clutch in.
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