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Judging by the crash photo, it looks like he's in Endonesia.

I really wish Cianciarulo would have changed brands early in his career. His stats could be completely different.

I don’t think the issue has been finding a guy that is properly motivated. Kawasaki has been known for telling riders “this is our bike and you must ride it this way” instead of collaborating with their riders to set the bike up in a way that makes them comfortable. There’s been some pretty consistent evidence of those guys either winning or crashing out in the past 20 years. The lone exception being RV, who basically said “f it, I’m out” at 28ish years old because he was done dealing with it.

If you really think about it too tomac and rv were 2 guys who ride like nobody else. On top of that rv really was the only guy who was in peak form on the kawi. Sure tomac EVENTUALLY put a few championships together on the kawi, but he was there forever and he went from looking even faster than jett lawrence on the honda 450, beating kenny and dungey by over a minute outdoors, to underperforming for years on the kawi and having tons of “weirdo” rides. The second he left kawi and went to yamaha he won everything...

Kawasaki has been my ride for 40 years. They went through this exact thing in 1980 with Gary Mathers, I called this years ago. They will be hurting until Dan Fahie is gone! This could be a really long mess!

You are new here, right?

They're going to have two guys in Mookie in Garrett where the expectations aren't too high, so they only have upside when either one puts in a surprise top-5 ride. Obviously, after Jorge and Chase, they've shown the world that they still don't have an answer for how to set the bike up for a championship-caliber rider. They need to continue to develop before making another high-value signing with the intention of a serious championship run. Personally, I say give the reins to Mitch, if he's be willing to take over.

Kawasaki signed Stewart to boost their completely demolished PR situation. Stewart signed for the Benjamins.

They already signed Mookie

Just wanted to bring this thread back to life... Jorge what's your address so we can send ya flowers and chocolates?

Chad has a ton of experience and all that, I'm sure he'll do well with the team.. If he did say that, its very shortsighted. He doesn't have more to offer than Roger and Ian, or Mitch.

Not perfect, just forgiven. 🙏 Now get the fuck out of my way before I break your goddamn kids leg. 😝

Jesus people think that is a get out of jail free card.

Busted out ole God card!

“Take him to pound town” 😂 This must be a joke right? No one says that in a serious conversation.

Why does the track owner want someone to break a kids leg?

If this is where he ends up, and chiz has been working on the bike for him after learning what chase is looking for during the kawi testing, diabolical lol

Rigid/stubborn/bad management -> stunts development of bike -> new bike sucks as a result -> management finally changes their ways after struggling and allows big swings but it's too late and you can't polish that turd, top riders still hate the bike -> management is bitter because they're finally doing everything they can and still aren't getting the results/credit for changing -> they lash out and say things publicly that no boss should ever be saying about top talent.... and here we are. Not sure how you move forward from that without a clean slate. With new bike this year...