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Still wondering how much it cost him to get out of that commitment...

Mmmhmmm he hated the bike. At least racer x produced one of the best practice videos from his old property aka the dog pound these days.

Does anyone remember when Chad Reed left Kawasaki mid outdoor season?

Rigid/stubborn/bad management -> stunts development of bike -> new bike sucks as a result -> management finally changes their ways after struggling and allows big swings but it's too late and you can't polish that turd, top riders still hate the bike -> management is bitter because they're finally doing everything they can and still aren't getting the results/credit for changing -> they lash out and say things publicly that no boss should ever be saying about top talent.... and here we are. Not sure how you move forward from that without a clean slate. With new bike this year...

Wow If some management changes are not made at Kawasaki now, I will be shocked. Two high profile shit shows two years in a row, some heads need to roll.

Team Billabong cause you know, he surfs all the time.

Good on Stewart, he's not a title contender, so performance isn't the deciding factor, he's taken the best financial offer.

You'd never see Hunter pull a 38on2 to his brother or Jett to Hunter. Race each other hard and clean, each will. Neither will punt the other so knowing that, they push each other vs slowing each other. TM

Coenens are coming, its going to be tough for the rest.

The advantage the Lawrences have isn’t that there’s two of them, it’s that they are brothers AND they’ve been brought up with a strong sense of family. Each is as heavily invested in the other's success as their own. No individual riders are going to share with and support another elite rider on a team the way the brothers do. It just can’t be replicated by throwing two guys together.

Ya think Jett was beating hunter when they were on 65's and 85s? I'd say Hunter was the rabbit early on, Jett had to get better to keep up and beat Hunter. One raised the others level and maybe now the shoe is on the other foot. Both are examples how injuries play into who is on top.

Look it, all you have to do is ignore the multi time mxgp champ who hated the bike so much he tried not to qualify so he'd get fired who has returned to winning as soon as he got off the bike, and also ignore the guy who's won 450 titles on two other brands who also hates the bike, and you can see the bike is not the problem. Just be logical about this.

It both did and didn't have any effect. It was not just the MXoN but also the AJMX that pushed M.A to not give it official Aus Supercross Accred. The MXoN affected the three riders who represented the country, which in itself was a bummer as both Tanti and Beaton will be front runners in the Aus Series, and Larwood a championship contender in SX 2. The reason KTM was not at the opening in an official capacity was the AJMX, they are the naming rights sponsor of that event, have all their race trucks at the Junior Aussie event...

Webb is a legend.

It's your culture and I believe facilities are the problem, culture being number 1(the new America). I was thinking about facilities, I'll just take Star for example, Star operates like a dick measuring contest, they want their riders to kill each other out there and the riders want to be the top dog. The problem with this environment is that the riders want to be the top dog at the test track, whilst they are out there trying to beat each other they sacrifice technique in order to beat their team mates. Using Deegan as an example, you have a...

The bike was gurgling all day per multiple sources. Marchbanks also had issues during that race and even made gestures when passing by the mechanics area indicating something was going on with the bike. It's pretty obvious it wasn't Chase's fault. Can't believe we're still talking about this.

Amazing that a situation repeats itself almost exactly 1 year apart and instead of looking at the common denominator (Team) you look at the 2 variables (George and Chase).

Jorge's whole fiasco aside (which he has now shown his opinion about himself and Kawi was correct - amazing I know, explains the 4 world titles), Chase blames his knee injury on the bike, it was spluttering at Thunder Valley according to multiple people and nobody would crash like that on purpose either. Is Chase probably hard to deal with? I'm sure he is - most elite level people are a bit weird in any environment, but you cant blame the guy either, how does a factory level team have a spluttering EFI-equipped bike? How does a factory level team...

The iPhone stuff on YouTube shows the condition of the track better than official content.

iPhone, burkeen provides some really great footage and content. I don’t care if it’s an iPhone or a $6k camera, he gets footage and shots guys with 40k in equipment never will. Dude works hard, runs all over the track side literally running from turn to turn to get the angles and views he does. Some high end established outlets will absolutely not be running up the hills and up the jumps to get these views. But sure “the best” will remain. The ones “they” say are the best will remain. And so it goes.