Who takes the risk on Kawasaki?

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Star isnt letting Davies go. His style is made for a 450, Jett 2.0. 

yardsailor wrote:
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...

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. 

gt80rider wrote:

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... 

i don't think anyone makes that decision other than Bobby Regan.....

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mavrick121 wrote:
"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...

"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. 

Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies are way better than any 10 -17 yzs 

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I've been thinking about the history of this team quite a lot recently.

They were lucky and fortunate to have these riders, RC, JS7, RV, and Eli, the first 3 were soo exceptional it didn't matter what they did with the bike, these riders won it themselves, they all have one thing in common, they aren't setup princesses they just get along with the program.

I believe the flaws in the team/bike showed it's head during Tomac era, if you go back and watch his bike it looked like shit comparing to the other top teams but Tomac being who he is he also made it work.

A lot of people have skipped over the AC era, how would AC's career gone if he was on a different team? he also had a lot of weirdo crashes on that bike.

If Kawy are serious in their race team in the US heads should be rolling already, in any other professional sport heck even regular person job/business, if something like that happened heads would roll from the Prado situation here we are a year later and nothing has happened even with Sexton leaving.

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mavrick121 wrote:
"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...

"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. 

MX558 wrote:
Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies...

Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies are way better than any 10 -17 yzs 

Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8 years to right that ship.. 

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mavrick121 wrote:
"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...

"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. 

MX558 wrote:
Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies...

Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies are way better than any 10 -17 yzs 

USA wrote:
Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8...

Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8 years to right that ship.. 

And it took Honda like 16 years so I guess they are twice as bad?

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mavrick121 wrote:
"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...

"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. 

MX558 wrote:
Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies...

Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies are way better than any 10 -17 yzs 

For the 800 millionth time. It’s not the bike. It’s the dumb ass team tuning the bike. Mega dollar factory program can’t build a motor better than twisteds first attempt, can’t build suspension better than stealing kitchens set up from pc, can’t build a clutch to last a Mudder on and on.


The teams a joke:

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MX558 wrote:
Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies...

Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies are way better than any 10 -17 yzs 

USA wrote:
Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8...

Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8 years to right that ship.. 

soggy wrote:

And it took Honda like 16 years so I guess they are twice as bad?

I guess? Honda completely restructured in that time so I think you have a good point even though I dont think you meant to. 

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MX558 wrote:
Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies...

Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies are way better than any 10 -17 yzs 

USA wrote:
Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8...

Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8 years to right that ship.. 

soggy wrote:

And it took Honda like 16 years so I guess they are twice as bad?

Actually no, cause Honda won many 250 titles, just not 450. Kawi hasn’t been able to win anything since 2019 whether 250 or 450. 

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mavrick121 wrote:
"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...

"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. 

MX558 wrote:
Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies...

Yamaha won an SX and MX title on late 2000s then brought out the 2010 and took them 8 years to right that ship. The kawies are way better than any 10 -17 yzs 

USA wrote:
Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8...

Lol kawi won their last championship in 2020, do you expect them to win one in 2027? Looks like it will take them at least 8 years to right that ship.. 

Kitchen, Thrasher, Hammaker, and Adams have some outdoor potential. Don't count them out yet!

And yes, I get your real point. Mookie and Marchbanks aren't likely a title threat.

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Could turn that question around and say who is going to take the chance on Chase?

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Jkawi wrote:

Could turn that question around and say who is going to take the chance on Chase?

Kove would take Chase.  

I was hoping Beta would take him.  Seems like people have high praise for the bike. 

I may buy one here shortly.  

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