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RC, Reed and Dungey all had that Zook looking plush. You ever wonder what those mechanics think when someone throws all that prior testing and data out the window and starts out with "rigid"?
The other teams were running them last year and have a lot more testing done on them than the Suzuki team does.
Its tough to jump right on to something and not have a lot of time with it. Especially when he never ran the Air Forks before in the MX series.
Amazing how fast those guys are going in those vids!
The Shop
Suzuki allowed him to run the spring forks because it wasnt coming out until this model year, now that the RMZ 450s come stock, they are making him run them.
Watch the video.
2013 MX Bike Check JS7
Different frame and forks since then.
James bike looked great last year and pretty good for Supercross this year, the team will get it figured out for Outdoors.
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How do you explain that?
Still leads me to believe they are having issues with the forks. But like others have said, once you are off of the fist two tracks his bike should work a lot better.
Pit Row
At 1.49 Stewart even pops the clutch to keeps the revs up just before he hits the softer apex of the turn,not trying to be a smartass,just my 2'penneth
I know he's been training in Florida, but he hasn't trained there in summer yet, which is a special hell.
Remember last year at Budds Creek Ken had a hard time in the first hot and humid race of the year. He may need just one more year to really get used to it. Dungey has 5 years of fitness under his belt, that could be the difference.
James' brain is wired for stiff suspension. Not technically, it's just what he became accustomed to for decades in the process of kicking people's butt. RC's ability to adapt to new riding styles and bike setups always amazed me, because in essence, he had to rewire his brain to go faster (sounds nerdy, but it's true). I'm sure JS and the Suzuki crew will get the bike more dialed in.
It will take another race for me to call him a favorite to the title.
RV hits the limiter all the time
Where as KR, as already mentioned, is hardly ever bouncing off it.
Maybe I'm think sx vs mx?
Back on topic, JS missed a few corners but also put the bike inside others lines a few times too
I think he just wasn't feelin it, and backed it down a notch to live to fight another day
KR hit just about every mark and line, great precision for mx.
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