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the fascination with getting Kitchen on a 450 makes no sense to me.
he's spent years in the 250 class and hasn't really sniffed a title (SMX doesn't count sorry Feld). Kawi needs a killer, Kitchen and Hammaker aren't.
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The idea is that maybe the change will suit them better. Certainly getting them away from all the rest of the “hair’s on fire” youngsters would be helpful.
There’s nothing wrong with the green bike. A championship caliber rider that doesn’t make excuses could win on it. You’re delusional if you think otherwise.
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Tomac's gone buddy, you have to let it go.
Any of the four brothers currently at the top of everyone's list would win on it, if lured away from their current contracts by enough cash.
I wonder how much Dazzy could charge to sort the bike out for them? 500k?
Jett 100% (unless it shut off mid jump)
Hunter 50% (if he pays Jett again to let him win)
Jason 0% :bike would get stolen or/and he wouldn't show up to the start
Randy 0%: Would keep talking about jetting and confuse the team
How come Gajser couldn’t win on the Yamaha this year then?
I'm from the PNW and a Kitchen fan, but you're right.
Maybe next year will be it, hopefully.
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Chase was able to win twice on it, so I see no reason another top rider couldn't do the same.
To a way more competitive class? I don’t think so.
Coenens havent even won a championship in the AMA feeder series and now they can apparently jump on a kawi and win championships here
Star isnt letting Davies go. His style is made for a 450, Jett 2.0.
US bikes typically get a lot of the stuff the euros were running in the prior year (sometimes earlier). the comparison works over the length of time i showed you.....the bikes are similar enough
Davies is fast, but he's not Jett fast.....just yet
Don't know about Gajser, but Febvre did ok on the same bike last year.
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Why would Kawi need to obtain a high buck rider as long as their sales are strong? It's a business decision.
I agree with you. The team makes a difference. I'm just not convinced that the Kx450 is a bad bike.
The same bike, using the same frame, which is mostly what can be changed in MXGP but not AMA, with a different rider and team, did extremely well. Almost all of the rest of the components can be changed, so theoretically, Sexton could've run the same bike as Febvre.
It seems unfair to mark the Kx as a bad bike, then have amateurs who like the green brand stop buying KXs.
"The Kawi is fine" ppl are just burying their head in the sand. Remember 2022 when JA21 won 7 SX races and had a career best season? Won 2 MX races too. And then the next year the results fell off a cliff and never recovered? They introduced a new model in '23 and since then the team has been a massive dumpster fire. Maybe this new gen Kawi will be better, but it will be several years until they are able to attract the talent that is capable of more than MAYBE 1 win a year. Kawi is in a slump. Like Yamaha in the late 00's early 10's. But corporate Kawi thus far seems uninterested or unwilling to make the changes that Yamaha did to regain relevance.
Sorry I may have been confusing with what I mentioned. I’m not talking about any advantage or disadvantage the MXGP has on what parts they can use. I simply describing the team setting up a bike to be competitive for a top 3 rider in the world, it takes way more than a 5-10 guy.
A better example of what I was trying to describe could be like the factory Yamaha versus when Star took it over it magically went from a bike nobody was winning on to one of the best bikes out there.
Another example is ride two identical bikes with completely different tires and it will feel different, quite a bit different in certain conditions.
I appreciate the laugh, but let’s get serious, 500k is way too low.
Davies on a 450 will make Dangerboy nervous. Davies will use Danger as a stepping stone.
Davies persona, he is all business.
He reminds me of Ivan Vasilyevich Drago and Ive wanted to make the correlation for some time.
For those of you who know, you will know what I mean.
I don't disagree, but both are winners nonetheless, and these types can respond well when making a jump up (Sexton himself comes to mind).
And if you can't make good use of your minor/major team system when the big one is in dire straits, what's the point of having it?
I think the airbox design makes it harder to meet the sound limits on the Yamaha.
The 23 bike was the same as 2022.
In RacerX 's supercross preview for 23, they brought up that Jason being on a familiar platform set him up well for the 2023 supercross season.
So his results changed before they went to a new model in 24.
Febvre was on the new bike this year.
Febvre also left the team for next year and despite throwing out very large offers Kawi could not attract a top 5 (10?) rider.
There is no way cringe lord gonna allow Davies on "his" 450 team... he won't let anyone faster than him be on that team, including sexton...
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