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aees Added a reply to Panic Button for Chase/Kawi?
4/26/2026 6:48am It's not just Chase. It's Chase, Prado, Seewer, Paul's Jonass. Elite riders all capable of doing way better. Seewer said the bike turns like a oil tanker. Chase has said he has to ride outside lines because can't get to the inside, and around the bumps due to chassi/suspension. That chassi seems to work for people with a specific riding...
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aees Added a reply to Panic Button for Chase/Kawi?
4/26/2026 6:27am As soon as they move to 250 they start at latest, so between 14-16. You think they all ride SX first time they get pro license? 😄 Most have access to someone with private SX tracks.
aees Added a reply to Prado at Elsinore today
4/25/2026 2:37pm It typically provides a goat trail to aim for. Blue groove concrete on the trail. Like riding on a plowed field if you go outside it. One of the worst experiences riding it when I have been there.
aees Added a reply to Panic Button for Chase/Kawi?
4/25/2026 2:32pm It's simple. He gets a start he goes for it as long as he doesn't take to much risk. Midd pack start or pace to high, he just backs off and logs laps. 4, 5, 10, 15 really doesn't make any difference at this point. I could see him take some more risk if a podium is there and it's...
aees Added a reply to Panic Button for Chase/Kawi?
4/25/2026 2:27pm The same. Still ridden SX less since they have been on SX tracks for years. And of course, not all of them.
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/25/2026 2:24pm What would they have said that made an impact on Chase? "The shitty bike you are about to ride you will just have to suffer through first year on. Then the 2027 comes and it fixes all the issues you don't know about yet". Something like that? That bike has been in development for several years before Chase even touched...
aees Added a reply to Panic Button for Chase/Kawi?
4/25/2026 12:13pm We all know how much those laps at the practise track gives you race experience under race conditions. That's why every rider always nails the settings every year and isn't lost when they get on the race tracks 🤦
aees Added a reply to Panic Button for Chase/Kawi?
4/25/2026 10:56am When Prado has 6 seasons of SX behind him. Prado has ridden less SX than the 16y old SMX future kids.
aees Added a reply to Bench Racing | Philadelphia Supercross Timed Qualifying
4/25/2026 10:36am So we live in a world now where Prado is just straight up faster than Chase in SX? But bike is still ok. Who had that on the radar 12m ago. Chase is 1sec slower than on the KTM.
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/25/2026 9:00am Wasn't just Chase. But it was a WP/KTM USA thing.
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/24/2026 12:01pm 3 SX races in US and like 3 weeks of practise before that. It's not 8 years of SX data they had with Prado. If the bike is designed oddly, then there is no band-aid to help. Will be very interesting to see what rider Kawi can get next when Chase leaves. No championship contenders, so they go Kitchen and...
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/24/2026 11:35am They couldn't make the bike work for Seewer in MXGP either. Prado is not a picky rider it seems. He is probably the fastest riders to not have changed anything on the KTM, until a few races in when they updated suspension setting. Doesn't change a click during racing Ian H said. They had 70 settings at Kawi. 1 at...
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/24/2026 11:25am Chase has KYB on the KTM, that was it. And we should remember that was with failing wp shocks. If they would have had this years new suspension for Chase last year I'm not sure he would have switched. Even if they did test other stuff with KTM, it was never as bad as it is now. So it's not...
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/24/2026 6:37am They need to provide a good base. At most, riders should have to adjust suspension valving and engine character. That's is plenty enough in terms of combinations. When you have to throw linkage, clamps, offsets, rakes, swingarms and so on as a rider, there is something wrong from the start. Probably bike design, it's a rear steering bike and has...
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/23/2026 2:39pm Unless they made a complete 180 on philosophy, 2027 won't be different. It was designed well before Chase and even Prado joined. You can compare the change probably needed like between KTM 2022 and 2023, but again that's a very radical design change from KTM to go with a no squat design for 2023. KTM went from feeling like KTM...
aees Added a reply to Panic Button for Chase/Kawi?
4/23/2026 2:34pm Seewer said that an oil tanker and the kawi has the same characteristics when it comes to turning. Chase has said he needs to ride outside lines and around the bumps. So it's probably very narrow window for when the bike works, and it needs to suit the riding style. Chase ain't a rear end steering guy. If the fundamentals...
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/23/2026 12:37pm Chase has already thrown the team and bike under the bus. It translate to exactly the same meaning: bike is not good, team is lost. They just used different words 😄 Kawi is probably not stoked on that interview if it was just before his crash, or first one after.
aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/23/2026 12:34pm That's exactly what it was. Monster refused to even discuss early release before that.
mx691 Liked a reply to forum topic Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/23/2026 12:34pm
Not a Jorge thread but people still does not see that the ”quitting” / trying not to qualify probably was to make absolute sure he got out from there. Not pretty but he had to. If he was made to stay, trying to make things better for two more years, it was going to be absolutely career ending, resultwise or injuries and he knew it. What measures will Chase have to take to get out? Banged up? Epstein barr? Try to not qualify? All 3? Riding out the contract will be… career ending!
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aees Added a reply to Does Chase ride out the 3 years?
4/23/2026 12:33pm Everything is excused by now. Prado clearly said that we had no idea what was happening behind the scenes. I interpret that as Kawi being asholes, and possibly Monster. Monster refused to discuss the option of letting Prado go early, that is already established. If I where Prado, I would have done everything I could to get out early including...