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I was with you until you said Dylan would have won on a Vespa. He was the best guy but let’s not get crazy here. He didn’t go 24-0.

No, factory Yamaha couldn’t make that bike good. They had been trying since 2010 and that bike has been bad mouthed by riders ever since. Star made that bike great in a short amount of time, which is very impressive. I can’t wait to see tomac on it

He'll just say it's always been good outdoors and that it's still a blue pig because of SX.

Sounds like Yamaha was Yamaha's worst enemy. Bike had the speed if it weren't for Yamaha. Strange, yes! Kind of like Webb having to grab the torch and cut the KTM to make him relevant again......

I get what you’re saying; but, these days? Having 3-4 great riders under your banner means you’re increasing your odds of having one of them STILL running at the seasons end and competing for The Red Plate. What Star is doing now is exactly what Honda did back in the day.

Seems like Star made a 'works bike'.

In Australia you don't understand the purpose of the 2nd Amendment. It is not about hunting or even protecting ourselves from robbery or bad guys. Yes it does both of those things but it is mostly about protecting us from tyranny. If you don't think that cops beating the hell out of citizens who aren't wearing masks is tyranny I don't know what to tell you. We are not about "The thin blue line" blindly, we are about the rule of law and citizens having rights.

No one. There's two things I care about in this world 2-stroke and reducing poverty.

LOL. "debacle" "quell" This forum is just wild speculation.

it's worse than that.... much much worse. What we have done, as being imprisoned citizens, and thus not economically active, almost guarantees a dramatic decline in living standards and life expectancy for the world's poorest. This is a humanitarian crime on a biblical scale because we are petrified of a virus, that while is very nasty (and something I have been OCD about), isn't that bad on a historical standpoint. I would say what we have done is a crime worse than any genocide if we think in pure numbers and life years lost to poverty via economic lockdown/restrictions. https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2021/f-June-21/Large-in…...

How could this post get that many thumbs down, do people like getting their asses kicked by cops?

Yep, both Lawrence brothers wanted to go. Jett said in an interview that someone higher up decided they weren't going. To me that sounds like an HRC/American Honda decision. There are also a couple guys in Europe already. The hard part would be getting guys from Australia there, both in terms of riders and management

Yep I’m in Qld with no restrictions at all. However the Covid situation in Australia has zip to do with not sending a team to MXdN, because the team would have been made up of America and Europe based riders. Just like team USA, it’s a total cop out by our mob.

Australia is now the sad example, why you should never give away your guns.

I had a hunch when I heard an interview with Plessinger just before the outdoors started. You could hear it in his voice as to how confident he was about the the bike. Congrats to Star and lets face it the Yamaha production team for coming up with a solid platform to work off of.