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Evident by the fact that he calls it a "feeling". If you knew what the "feeling" was then you would be a lot better at describing what you are looking for. I think he's had so many people (his dad) telling him what he likes and needs his whole life, that he himself does not know what that is anymore. James is better at describing what the bike is doing from TV than Chase is.

So i listened and to be honest there wasnt a lot that i hadnt already heard, save for Jake calling out Fahie for being a liar. But as i always bang on about, there are people in Factory Teams, that would rather lose than win with something that wasnt their idea, and this 100% confirms it. In 2009/10 we had six different sets of clamps, 3 Specs of Swingarms, and 3 different linkage shock clevis set ups for our SXV 450 Aprilia's , and we were working out of the corner of a barn. 3 Sets of Ice Parts clamps...

Really nice guy, got to visit with him at length at Rio around 2004. He was haulin' that day.

MCGrath like the 93 because it flexed. In the 90s we were all brainwashed by the magazines to think flex was so bad. Jody/MXA loved calling bikes “flexi flyers”. Come to find out, the mags were wrong. Not shocked. And now theyre pushing flex onto us. They say the Suzuki is SO rigid. Everyone that rides them shrugs and says idk it feels fine. While Honda is adding pieces to their frames to add rigidity. So. When are we gonna realize these “test riders”. Are really just good bullshitters. Contradicting themselves constantly .

Love the kids riding. Everything else is just lowbrow WWE garbage.

My dealer was told the same thing, that they had some reliability problems come up in testing. As I said in an earlier post, they were told now it will be late May or early June. So we will see. I have a 25 250X, but I may switch to the 300, if and when it comes out.

MC famously rode a '93 Honda right up until 1997, when he couldn't get away with it and ended up switching to Suzuki instead of riding the aluminum Honda. RC's frames could have been different model years or have different gusseting and still be in compliance with the rule. Same with bore & stroke; you can make adjustments to the engine as long as the cases are the same. Even run works cylinders AFAIK. (But again, I don't know what the rules actually said in 1996, 2002 or now in 2026.)