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Wonder if that's part of the problem...
The Shop
Actually I have one more morsel I want to throw out there ..... Has anyone noticed how much smaller the sparse for the frame are on the yamaha compared to all the other aluminum framed bikes? I kind of wonder if the frame is flexing in a negative way .... Makes sense a little since bikes with less than rigid frames for sx are known for doing wildly unpredictable things that put the rider on the ground. Travis Preston said that about his factory ktm it would flex and boom! It would just go bananas...James has echoed the same problems he was having when he was at l&m not knowing what happened when he crashed or the bike would do the strangest things and boom he's on the ground again. When I watch James riding that bike its pretty clear he can't go "crazy balls" on that bike and I've never seen James ride so timid ever in his career and I don't think its a coincidence.
Some people ask odd questions just to make a post.
Pit Row
Q.E.D.
JRI is owned by Jeff Ryan. He worked for Fox, but also Penske for years. If you look at his bio page, most of those championships he mentions comes from his days at Penske Shocks.
http://www.jrishocks.com/ourteam/bio.cfm
Is it possible that it isn't the actual bike that's the problem but what's in his head? Maybe in his head he thinks the bike is the problem and no matter what they change on the bike he has it in the back of his head that the bike just wont work.
Here's my question...
If JGR was using a different bike, say Honda, that's proven to work good, do you think they would still be doing the special things they are with the Yamaha? Or is all their work in vein to try a dial in a so called "sub-par" Yamaha?
My idea is that regardless of the bike, I feel with the types of people JGR employs, it's in their nature to test, develop, and be creative with their technology and tools to better a product regardless of how good it works.
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