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1/5/2020 12:12pm
1/5/2020 12:12pm
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1/12/2020 6:53pm
'First off thank you for the support to my fans, friends, family and my team!
From previous experience i have set my bike up very stiff for safety reasons. I have realized that even before going to Anaheim 1 that it May be on the stiff side. At the same time i didn’t want to flip everything upside down and keep messing around with anything just before the season starts. Ultimately i wanted to get to the races and then go from there. The tracks get really rough in the main and having a too stiff of a bike doesn’t help the whole situation and conditions. I felt like i was riding a BMX bike 😂No excuse though! Not pointing fingers or anything. We all know i can be and should be up at the front. The first race is down, i got the speed and i have put in my work over the off season no doubt. This week is about taking everything a step down and come to St Louis happy and motivated!'
He sure is on the sensible side when it comes to setup....
From previous experience i have set my bike up very stiff for safety reasons. I have realized that even before going to Anaheim 1 that it May be on the stiff side. At the same time i didn’t want to flip everything upside down and keep messing around with anything just before the season starts. Ultimately i wanted to get to the races and then go from there. The tracks get really rough in the main and having a too stiff of a bike doesn’t help the whole situation and conditions. I felt like i was riding a BMX bike 😂No excuse though! Not pointing fingers or anything. We all know i can be and should be up at the front. The first race is down, i got the speed and i have put in my work over the off season no doubt. This week is about taking everything a step down and come to St Louis happy and motivated!'
He sure is on the sensible side when it comes to setup....
Lol then shut up and don’t make such a stupid statement.
Here is a bunch of excuses....but no excuse.
The Shop
We want you to tell us how your night went; so, then we can bitch about what you said and how you said it.
This isn’t the first time KR has blamed the bike since being at Honda. Personally I think it’s very tacky to come out and say they missed the setup that badly after one race. You don’t just roll into A1 after a full offseason with a setup you think might be wrong.
Probably why the steel frame continues to shine even when the track breaks down, it's got more flex.
If he says he doesnt want to change it that much, he sure knows different setups? He sure knew the track is gonna break up after quali, so he doesnt know how to change his bike? with all his experience? okay..
Well, I guess you could say Kens weakness is to adapt to different setups. And what I said in the first post 'he sure is on the sensible side when it comes to setup' wasnt irony. He just seems to be that sensible.
Roczen: “I set my bike up to stiff and could barely hang on!”
Mx fans: “thanks for the update!”
I will quietly STFU while you and others who are clearly much more intelligent than I sit around and belittle and talk down to us common folk on the Forum😂
Learn some emotional intelligence.
Pit Row
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guest-ernesto-fonseca/id349470184?i=1000436173666
Certainly appreciate him taking the time to make a statement, just found it funny the way he phrased the excuse portion of it after he explained what could easily and very commonly be viewed as an excuse by many fans. So yes, his statement can easily be open to different interpretations.
This didn't sound like an excuse to me. I'm glad to hear an update, since I was thinking his performance last night had to do with the illness.
If the tracks you use to test , aren't representative of what you are going to race on, then don't try and work on set up at those tracks , just turn laps.
Barcia, raced off season, wins
Brayton , does he even have an off season.. on rails at 35
Anderson ' we changed nothing' .. came through well.
Webb looked shit all day , because he had the bike set up for the main. didn't give a shit about times.
Here is a tip... leave the bike that you finished last year with, the fuck alone, if you were happy with it.
These people are supposed to be pro's at the top of the sport, both riders and teams. They should be better than this.
Funny so many posters in this thread cannot understand what I am getting at. Isn’t this the rider that very much prefers a stiff set up?
Instead of taking what he said as.
Hey my M.O has been I run my suspension quite a bit softer then it needs to be in supercross which is a huge part of why I almost killed myself or at the very least almost lost my arm. So this year we started quite a bit stiffer which felt great at the test track. But now i realize it's to stiff for racing situations so were need to dial it back a touch. This is one of those things you don't really know until you line up. I fell like i should have still be farther up there but now we know what we need to tweak for next week.
That's not a excuse you morons that's insight for fuck sake.
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