Look, my take on this is:
Yam = Looks
Suz = Race
Kaw = Power
Hon = _______ You fill in the blanks.

The heritage says, 'the hinge' is the lineage for duc. Ever ride a Paso? That is some scary steering, being 2 removed from a yap'steer, and a brit's hinge. That steer wants to tuck under the cases you move a bar off of Z. X spits you off, Y, I don't know why they do not rack the fucking trail some. Follow the back end to, get it? X is the hinge. Y is the kick-out or it turns, i.e., handles?

Square bore'ring! Any race is a race. I don't care how boring. Go ask the racer how boring it was LOL.

"Go ask the racer how boring it was"

What the rider thinks has nothing to do with whether I enjoyed the race or not.

That was like saying... 'Hey racers, put me on speedial so I can tell you how [I] you want to enjoy this sunday's race.' You're kidding me, right?

You don't know the outcome of every lap, let alone every turn.

privateer, I know what you are saying, they had there time. just like to see champs go out with win if you know what I mean .
dragking, you have to watch just in case you miss a ripper of a race, you'll be dirty on yourself.

WSBK is also now owned by Dorna the same as MotoGP, just watch them stuff it all up so gp is more successful.

I agree with you 100%!

Rossi complaining about the Ducati as an excuse why he isn't winning? Thats pretty weak.

Yeah Stoner won on that bike! I do think Ducati is stubborn with the chassis and other stuff but their moto has always been to build a race bike and find a rider not the other way around. Rossi should just keep quiet and ride or quit, but then again what's an italian without emotions????! Hayden seems to remain positive... I know you're going to tell me he is younger and not used to winning.

Go ask the racer how boring it was"
What the rider thinks has nothing to do with whether I enjoyed the race or not.

Now this is not even an argument nor a debate, we are comparing apples and oranges. I would fall asleep watching myself going through a corner but I'm super exited when I do it. How many racers watch their races for pleasure nowadays in motogp? Now go back and look at Wayne and Kevin go at it! It's not only the races. It is the times we live in. There is so much money involve in marketing that everybody wanna be Mr Nice.

* Last updated by: dragking on 4/13/2012 @ 10:24 AM *

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=47876

They were telling me that night about the cranial relief they had to perform. I was told a few minutes ago about his recovery. So far, they are talking about a range of between 1 and 8. Anything past that is bad news in the world of head trauma. He's around a 6 and his number is coming down and that is a good sign. There is a fund raiser rumor going around and at this point, again, I rather wait for it to be official.

Wishes for a good recovery and everyone concerned. And when I heard some of these phone calls coming in, I could hear this one bike going by in the background, harder on the pipe than the other bikes going by. He goes, here comes Tyler again.... Figures!

* Last updated by: Hub on 4/10/2012 @ 7:20 PM *

privateer; If I ride a bike I'm not comfortable with, I have no confidence in it, and that makes it hard to ride, let alone race. It doesn't matter how fast it is, or who can get better results. Even Ducati admits they haven't been successful at building the bike they want, let alone Rossi/Hayden. They claim they built 3 different bikes in 2011 x 2. That doesn't sound like Duc is blaiming the riders.

There is a fund raiser rumor going around and at this point, again, I rather wait for it to be official

Hope the kid makes it hub, why dose he need a fund raiser is that because he can't work????

Rossi is at a crossroad, dose he keep trying with the duc or move on, for me if they haven't fixed by now its maybe 2 years away , Rossi is running out of time.

Honda and Yam are in a battle with Stoner and Lorenzo, which will only drive there bikes faster

He needs to get back on a jap bike but it will be very hard to get back to were he was before and then catch Lorenzo, Stoner and the other usual suspects.

If he would be happy fighting for a podium spot or 4th perhaps, and live with the fact it will be very hard to win, a jap bike is his only hope.

I think he will walk away

alg8er - all I said is, how much I enjoy watching a race has nothing to do with whether the rider was bored or not.

I guess the question is, of all the races I have watched, was a rider ever bored during the race. Logic says probably at least once. Yet I enjoyed the race.

Ergo, it doesn't matter to me if the rider is bored.

privateer; "Rossi complaining about the Ducati as an excuse why he isn't winning? Thats pretty weak."
That's what I was commenting on. Sorry, I should have quoted. My feeling is that the engineers should be setting up the bike to suit the rider. Just about impossible to pick a rider that's going to fit a bike perfectly. So if Ducati isn't coming through, then it IS their fault. I'm not saying Rossi is perfect, but Hayden isn't doing much better.

Nicky Hadyden has been around a long time. I don't expect to ever see much from him, no matter what bike he rides. If he was going to really do anything he would have done it a few years ago.

Like Rossi did.

If Kawasaki doesn't sort the 10R out soon, Sykes is going to end up riding a MotoGP bike in 2013, and he might just be able to make something of a GP Ducati. Or maybe he wouldn't be able to, its impossible to predict how he would adapt. But he is young, and fast, and doesn't make mistakes. Which is why despite few top podium finishes, he is right up there in points.

2012 MotoGP is going to be very interesting, and Valentino Rossi doesn't even have to podium to contribute to it being interesting.

2012 WSB is going be interesting, because every race we are going to see if Sykes can get enough of a lead while he still has tires on his 10R, to hold off Checa whose Ducati has good tires the last 10 laps. But if the Aprillia and BMW don't get more podium finishes, it could get boring.

I'll keep watching WSB because I want to be watching the day Sykes has good tires the last 10 laps, and see how far behind he can leave Checa.

I'm getting blow by blow races all day long. This is one of Ty's many team mates with the same logos, same yammie 600's. Tyler is in second running a stock engine. Some others are running pro built engines, but still legal. What happened was, the guy in 3rd was going to pass Ty. Does something stupid, like too close to pass. Hits Ty's bike somewhere? The poor kid's bike then cartwheeled down the back straight when he bumped Tyler's bike. Tyler finished 2nd for that race. The kid was OK, but the bike looks like a bin bike now. Bin the been down the road one time too many.

So Hub, was this at Las Vegas last weekend? Your guy was in 2nd and Ben Truslow was in 3rd and hit him from behind? -bg

Correct, BG.

Sunday's 4 races came down to 5th-3rd-2nd-1st. So in the Benny vs. Tyler mishap, Ty finished 2nd. Closed the day with a win. Ben came up from behind, got sucked in the draft is what some say? Some say, this was a 120/130mph get off? That tag was a high side, mind you, so Ben was airborne, not sliding or seeing daylight-ground-daylight-ground. Any of them are not pleasant, I can tell you. Looking back at those two races, it seems Ben was Tyler's nemesis. This was the same kid that broke Tyler's clutch guard on the opening round of the season.

Kind of sad in a way. Not knowing it would wind up like this. You have rivals, but Tyler had some intuition about this. He was scared. I said to leave the pack on the drop of the flag. Get away from him. I knew he was a good starter. I just drilled more into him. The phone comment was how well he leaves the line in all his race starts. I doubt my comments had anything to do with it. He was good from the beginning and you need to be in the practice at the start. Like knocking buckets of balls. When Ty was younger, running the 125's, his buddy dies in front of him. So, this more or less, 'hones in the racer.' All this has to shut down inside, or if it knaws on you, might as well park it.

He is watching the same events I've seen, then you've seen on trackdays. We were just talking about Pat Hennen and his TT crash to the head bang. Some 750 TZ novice [dies] hitting the wall at the bigO. He was telling me how excited he was; going pro from the novice ranks. You have someone else in a wheelchair. I mean, the list goes on. It's a sport that has a lot of odds to overcome or more, how you play those odds.

The hindsight was like listening to Stoner tell Sic to slow down. You don't tell someone to slow down. You need to step it up to the Sic side. Stoner has the wisdom like an old racer already. Fucking asshole can't she it... Go grab the titty tool and feed the kid the read deal, guy! So the old lady does not windup with breast cancer down the road... Dry those jugs... Where was I?

This is wild.

I almost went to that race with my friend who races a 250 2-stroke. He had to cancel the trip because his wife was not well. I would have been in the pits not knowing you were there or even who you were...

Ben is one of the repeat students at the Yamaha Champions school, and Ken Hill is the one I heard about this accident from. And Ben has been racing your guy all this time.

I saw a crash like this one must have been at Ascot Park in LA back in the late 60's or early 70's. It was a TT race. One guy came up right behind the other and his front wheel went hard straight into the other guy's back wheel. It launched him straight up into the air. This one must have been much worse at 120+ mph, though...

Here's an update on Ben posted by his dad this morning:

"Ben is still in a deep coma at 95% suppression using medication. Still Having troubles regulating Ben's ICP (inter Crainial Pressure) This morning he had more episodes of high pressure ( 50+). Our goal is to keep it at about 10. Just finished metting with Dr.'s on morning rounds and his labs showed we could give him more of the medication that lowers the pressure with out him being overcome with toxicity. This is only one of the medical balancing acts that are going on simultaniously inside our little guy, and we are not nearly done or in a place where we are feeling safe yet. We continue to ask alll of you for prayers and positive thoughts that Ben will win this fight."

Tough stuff... -bg

Is this Tyler with Ben?

Ryan Matter #122
http://maps.wera.com/racers/racerprofile.asp?x=1098&rid=3221206968996

Ben http://maps.wera.com/racers/racerprofile.asp?x=1098&rid=3051692266932

privateer; WSB is fun to watch. There are drivers that can be consistently fast, and still preserve tires. Either Sykes isn't there yet, or the bike just uses up tires faster. There were comments that the Kaw is harder on tires because of a shorter wheel base. It looks like Stoner may have the same problem. I don't know what it is about Rossi. I guess I just like his riding style. I keep hoping he'll make it back to podium contention before he retires. May be a pipe dream. Did you watch the MotoGP 2 race? Large grid, and a lot of passing.

@ Hub: hope those guys make it out ok. Racing is a violent sport!

I don't know what it is about Rossi. I guess I just like his riding style. I keep hoping he'll make it back to podium contention before he retires. May be a pipe dream. Did you watch the MotoGP 2 race? Large grid, and a lot of passing.

Yeah that's the way I feel. His talent and his charisma. He's fun to watch on and off the bike. Leaving Duc for Jap bike could be a huge gamble for Rossi! For obvious reason he can't go to Honda HRC or Yamaha. He should have jumped Super Sic bike this year!

This is wild.

I almost went to that race with my friend who races a 250 2-stroke. He had to cancel the trip because his wife was not well. I would have been in the pits not knowing you were there or even who you were...

Taking a bath is violent if you slip. The sport is ballet on wheels [if] you don't crash. Moral of the story? Ban bathing.

Hey bg, it's a small world, racing. Seems, everyone knows someone who knows someone in this sport. Here is something too funny, not so funny, more ironic in fact. The money factor from paycheck to paycheck is the wicked part of racing.

I can't call that ball, nor what happens next? All I know about racing is that it comes down to one thing. You have to commit. You do not show up with a souped up a 14, where the rest of the grid is filled with R's.

dragking; unfortunately, with a 2 year contract with ducati, he can't go anywhere.

alg8er wrote:

Did you watch the MotoGP 2 race?

Yes, I watch all of the motorcycle races, even most of the supercross, where Kawasaki does pretty good.

I like MotoGP but like WSB more.

hehehe Nice pic Hub...That's Rossi for you; a child playing in the sand

dragking; unfortunately, with a 2 year contract with ducati, he can't go anywhere.

Audi, part of the VW Group, officially confirms that it has acquired Ducati...

will be interesting to see weather it is driven by passion or by profit

The Germans like there money

Das Pee Poles Bike = VW dependability. Interchangeability. Like a H-D's evolution. I don't think they have the talent for multi-engine configurations like the japanese. The germans are too stupid, stubborn, or something is wrong with their jeans, being too tight or point to something else at their headass.

Same lame ass twin shitcyliner. Ugly as they come is that fucked up fork of a birdshit wonder. At least some of the chassis handle. XYZ that section until someone stays on.

I'm not going anywear but teapot hardware. No matter how much the others try... Fill in the blank is why.