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Zycki bud... You just redefined what it it means to be a core sx fan if you can remember a track design from 19 years ago. 😮

lol thank you sir. To be fair, I am from the St. Louis area, so I was there, and in that weird off camber turn that reedy took stew out in. Also easy to remember for me because RC was talking about it being his last win on the broadcast recently. Spoke to all three of them boys that night. Funny little tidbit, while talking to Ricky a golf cart was honking to get by and he had to grab his Gatorade out of their way. He apologized and moved on talking. I distinctly remember looking at him in the...

Staying with the scoop after the track deterioration was an absolute fail. I’m always amazed when riders get so hooked on something, they can’t see the forest for the trees…

I've been saying it for weeks. He's not injured. He's reverting back to his classic head case ways. He should be at least a 5 time sx champ

Outdoors…

your ROI there is the time spent racing with your boy that is priceless.

In 1978, there were over 1000 AMA pros. They ran out of numbers and had to add letters. Only one class in SX and three in outdoors. One license for everything. Picture is 1981, guess the venue.

And lets keep in mind that AC has only experienced Kawasaki his whole life. We have multiple riders and entourages with experience from other teams telling us that Kawasaki is rigid. And this is from a very broad timespan, we're talking 15 years or more (At least 2010-2026). The evidence is there, it's undeniable. It's up to Kawasaki to realize they need to step it up and change. Yamaha did it when they scrapped the inhouse 450 factory team and let Star Racing run it, the rest is history.

If you listen to the interview Jake says, RV wasn’t happy with the bike especially in the second motos outdoors. The bike beat the crap out of him, “paraphrasing”. He also said, it was a chassis issue and they would not allow any changes to the chassis. Jake gave Dan props for getting the 13? Chassis homogenized so the could run it early and RV won on it right away. I like it when these guys are able to speak their minds by no longer being connected to the brands.

Posted the main part of this in the Chase thread too, but made a few changes. Snapshot of Kawi to the start of the century. Ricky Carmichael (1999-2001) Didn't RC leave because he felt they wouldn't make the required changes to the bike? James Stewart (2002-2008) Red Bull/ Monster gate. Ezra Lusk (2002-2003) Michael Byrne (2003-2006) Tim Ferry (2007-2009) Ryan Villopoto (2009–2015) Their best guy in recent times continues to express a team change would have extended his career. Relationship tarnished with Kawi USA for doing the GP deal. Chad Reed (2010) - Bad go of things. Jake Weimer (2011–2014)...

I wonder if Kawasaki need to hand their 450 program over to Pro Circuit, worked for Yamaha. Remember how bad the Yamaha 450 was and nobody had success on it for years, then they handed it to Star and just like that it was the best 450 around.

Last year during the Prado saga, Kawi had Taka do some testing for them, and I can’t remember who interviewed him, but he said along the lines of; “ you test the factory suspension, then ride on stock suspension and it’s better, somethings wrong”. Yet everyone continued to throw Jorge under the bus. I also see Taka’s now at HRC, not surprised after that 😂