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I noticed in one of the Pala motos he tried passing for the lead twice but his rear shock was bouncing around like a Pogo-stick. As the moto progressed his Suzuki was always hopping badly in the chop and it was easy to see why he faded so bad. I don't know what the issue was exactly but I was wondering how a factory team could miss the set-up so badly. Compared to the other bikes it looked like he had hardly any rebound dampening at all.

Are the threads ok inside the swingarm? To clarify, the jamnut is just loosening up and the bolt is winding itself inside? The threads are not slipping/stripped? If the threads are ok and it's just backing off, completely remove it all and clean it making sure there is no grease or anti-seize on the surface where the jamnut contacts the swingarm. You only want grease on the threads inside the swingarm. You have to get this solved because you can royally screw your bike riding like this. Seen this happen before and when the guy landed a jump it cocked...

While the result of the Vegas incident was unfortunate, it's hard to make the case that Barcia intended to injure Bowers. He didn't even crash him. It was just a freak incident with some mid level contact, especially compared to lots of passes we see. Bowers, though, launched his bike like a weapon. Huge difference.

Aldon has something others CANT ever have. Dungey was with Beams the year before aldon - and left to go to aldon. I promise you beams had dungey in just as good of shape if not better because both of them were chasing a benchmark they set of what they THOUGHT was enough but didnt' know (and likely over estimated the benchmark) What aldon has is a HISTORY of success - that gives him respect and credibility and AUTHORITY to tell a rider who thinks his shit doesn't stink - that his shit DOES stink. He gave dungey peace of...