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People seem to be missing the point repeatedly. It's not about whether the bike was good or bad or better than other bikes in that era. It's not about whether some guys could win on them. It's not about whether a guy would have had a better or worse career on a different team. It's about whether guys had freedom to try the things they wanted to try and were made to feel like their input on the bike mattered. Several guys have said that wasn't the case and from that they lost confidence, got burned out, never got the...

To reiterate, Jake stated many times he was referring to efforts back then, not current Kawi.

I have said this quite a few times. Chase likes a softer setup for feeling in his hands. The initial part of the stroke becomes super twitchy and then you watch his bike. Corner entry the bike is unstable, then he waits through mid corner and the bike settles again. But when he hits the throttle it squats so much from the load under acceleration it robs his forward momentum. I am a nobody and can see his bike is super twitchy and not settled anywhere. Learn to understand the motorcycle, hire a coach to walk that path with you...

With regard to prado and chase lacking judgment by signing with kawi, it shows you how pointless test riding a bike is. What you feel riding at 80% for a few laps doesn't tell you much about what you'll find when looking for that last few percent. And for all the rear steer talk, maybe I'm imagining things but in the RV days it seems like a lot more hard pack dusty bowl turns and less rutted tracks than now. Hard to swing that rear around when it's in a rut. Anyone catch Steve on pulp basically saying the chase...

Suzuki drops factory team, HEP recovers and builds brand with two elite level riders in Roczen and Andersen. Yamaha fumbles factory 450 team and creates reputation of "blue pig", let's 250 team (Star) take over. Championship winning under Tomac and Webb. Kawasaki......

I don't see Bajaj selling Gasgas. More to the point I don't see why anyone would buy Gasgas. I mean design, engineering and manufacturing is all done in house in Austria. Gasgas do not have any assets on their own, there is no "Gasgas factory" per say (IIRC they've just closed the trials factory in Spain to regroup all activities in Austria). So what would anyone buying Gasgas would get would be... the right to put the badge on the tank? Bajaj has an opportunity to do what Pierer did not: build a proper identity for the Gasgas brand (and...

Weimer told a fairly convincing story and it puts kawi in awkward spot. They either have to say weimer is just wrong about things, or have to explain why it's different now, but if they do that it goes against what they've already said about the whole narrative being fake news.

1 hour 33 minute mark it starts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf2Mmc1tPvQ

I do get a kick out of all the "panic button", "Kawi career killer", "disaster so far" comments in the myriad of threads on Sexton. While also seeing "Prado is killing it", "so impressive", "made his point", "proved it was the bike" comments on Jorge. But he is 10th in points... This is not to be negative on Jorge, but more to emphasize the comments on Chase are pretty absurd. Chase, who is 5th in points, only 18 out of the lead... and has a race win already? These comments on Chase are for when he is 25 out with...

I didn’t see any “Blue Flag Infraction”. All I saw was a hella-sore young man getting into the main and “making it last” for 20 laps and pulling off a 1:02.7 Honestly, after last week’s absolute ass-kicking crash? I’m surprised he rode as well as he did and for the entire main. Witnessing his crash with a birds-eye view during qualifying at San Diego, damn…that dude got torpedoed into the ground and the bike took another swing at him as he got smashed into a jump face. At the end of the night, last night, when I told him I...

Most fucked up part, my local Yadkin county sheriff is trying to hang his hat on solving this to get re-elected. Dude never got out of his cruiser to introduce himself to me day of the robbery. I had this thing solved within 2 weeks. I took this video nine days after my home was robbed — November 16th. Let me back up. On November 7th, my wife woke me up in a panic. Seventeen of my dirt bikes — mine and my children’s — were gone. Vanished from our home. We immediately called 911, and the Yadkin County Sheriff's...

We once had about $20K of canola stolen from a bin on our land once when my dad and I were still farming. I’ll admit that in my anger I’d have liked to have seen the thieves strung up by the balls. But that’s not the best time to judge. Upon sober reflection, that’s not the kind of person I want to be. I’d just like the value of our stuff back and put the thieves away so they don’t do it again and so other would be thieves know that if they get caught they will lose their freedom...

Good observation. As someone that has everything from Pro Circuit to Race Tech to Factory Connection and in-house WP, Showa and KYB goodies…all of which are amazing… I’ve had work done by JB…and his work is stellar. His in-house hardware is “Kit level”…and…he’ll work with you…after the fact…to get it right. When you see him at the track? He comes over and sees how things are going and helps with input and knowledgeable adjustments. I had an RMZ with extremely nice suspension revalved by someone-else…and it wasn’t cheap…and it had thier decals allllll over it…didn’t matter…JB is who helped me...

He’s 18 points out of the lead. He’s one of 5 riders that’ve won this year….so far. 11 races left to go (65% of the racing left to go). Man, maybe it’s just me…but…the whole “Panic Button” thing seems silly.