In case you missed it - history in the making.

[R6_kid]

Surely this will go down as one of the all-time greatest tit for tat races in the four-stroke MotoGP era.

Rossi vs Stoner at Laguna Seca
http://www.motogp.com/en/videos/2008/Rossi+Stoner+Laguna+Seca+2008+battle

[cowboyz]

fantastic.........

[bobsmith]

That was one of the best motor racing I've EVER seen.

Anyone who hasn't seen the race and rides a bike really really needs to see this. There are heaps of torrents around.

[R6_kid]

I wish I could get away with passing up the inside like that on the Coro Loop!

[avgas]

Surely this will go down as one of the all-time greatest tit for tat races in the four-stroke MotoGP era.

Wake me when i gets exciting

[R6_kid]

Have you watched it?

To be honest I watched some 'old' racing from the 90's (Doohan etc) and I really wish they'd get rid of the traction control bullshit. Would make things a lot more interesting.

Still, this has to rate pretty high. Rossi finally figured out how to crack Stoner, and it worked.

[sinfull]

Have you watched it?

To be honest I watched some 'old' racing from the 90's (Doohan etc) and I really wish they'd get rid of the traction control bullshit. Would make things a lot more interesting.

Still, this has to rate pretty high. Rossi finally figured out how to crack Stoner, and it worked.
Had to catch a replay but was great viewing ! I recon with all the pushing and shovin going on it was luck who cracked who first !
Was some impressive controll

[jrandom]

I was at home that day. Not a MotoGP sicky, only remembered it was on five minutes before it started.

And, as has been said, I was privileged to watch, live, the best motor race I've seen in... years.

Worth keeping.

[martybabe]

Brilliant stuff and yes I had missed it so thanx. :niceone:

[avgas]

Yeh i have to admitt the riding is good, and it was one hell of a dog fight. But my point is being that they are no longer pushing the envelope, they just make the envelope bigger.
Moto GP was suppose to change to take road bikes and make them race machines - test ridden an M1 lately? the V4 engine spec fucked this whole concept good and proper.
Don't even get me started on traction control.
Then there is the whining - political bloody nightmare.
4 stroke did to MotoGP what handbags did to rugby.
I'm not saying the bikes aren't awesome, or that the riders are fantastic - im just saying that it gets more and more like F1 and Womens weekly every season.

[Number One]

Got it on tape well after the event but definitely a darned good battle. I was glued for the whole race...well, actually, until Stoner fell off anyway - then it was just Rossi out front on his own riding without fault.

Oooo Rossi...come to me Rossi....this won't hurt a bit

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/picture.php?albumid=87&pictureid=5931

[Kornholio]

I was at home that day. Not a MotoGP sicky, only remembered it was on five minutes before it started.

And, as has been said, I was privileged to watch, live, the best motor race I've seen in... years.

Worth keeping.

Same man... was a good day to be home alright :D

[Boob Johnson]

Caught the highlights, jaw just about on the ground, fantastic stuff alright :niceone:

[Forest]

I'm surprised to find out you can crash in a Moto GP race and still come second.

Doesn't seem very competitive if the front runners can gain such an advantage over the rest of the competitors.

[JMemonic]

Anyone who hasn't seen the race and rides a bike really really needs to see this.

OK flame me if you will but I don't need to see this or have a desire to see it, call me odd or whatever but watching motorsports on TV honestly does not float my boat, (in fact TV does nothing for me).

Rather than wasting the time it takes to watch this I could be doing several far more productive things, but thank you for pointing out some information I had no idea about when I first started riding, in order to be a real motorcyclist I need to watch motorcycle racing on TV, learnt something today.

[merv]

For all of Stoner's whinging about Rossi's passing, that first pass by Stoner shown on this clip has him just brushing past Rossi as he went by - close racing for sure by both of them.

[nodrog]

I wish I could get away with passing up the inside like that on the Coro Loop!

havent you done the coro GP with Kornholio?

[Swoop]

Absolutely stunning racing.

It puts car racing to shame.

[quackquack]

To let you all know this race will be on TV 1 this weekend

POWERBUILT TOOLS MOTORSPORT
Sunday 3rd August.
TV ONE
3pm to 6pm

Geoff Bryan is back again for another all Motorsport Sunday afternoon.


3:00pm Moto GP – Round 11 Laguna Seca - USA.
Just the main class travelled to the USA for the first of two visits they will make to the US with another one coming later this year and the first visit to the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway but for now it was the very demanding Laguna Seca tack and the famous “corkscrew” corner. Rossi v Stoner and yes it is all on at this round --- in fact that could be classed as an understatement and a big one at that.


3:35pm World MX 1 – Round 10 South Africa.
It’s back again today the world MX 1 and more from Josh Coppins as he closes in again on the championship lead. Two great races today from the MX 1 Championship.

[Number One]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/picture.php?albumid=87&pictureid=5933
Look into my eyes!!!!!!

[R6_kid]

Rather than wasting the time it takes to watch this I could be doing several far more productive things, but thank you for pointing out some information I had no idea about when I first started riding, in order to be a real motorcyclist I need to watch motorcycle racing on TV, learnt something today.


Tell me then sir, why it is you are spending your precious timing making posts like this on the internet? Surely the time it took you type up that message could have been used for far more productive things?

[Badjelly]

Doesn't seem very competitive if the front runners can gain such an advantage over the rest of the competitors.

Yeah, boring race, a couple of guys cleared out from the others and that was it. I'd rather watch taxi racing...oops, I mean V8 Supercars.

:laugh:

Look mate, the really amazing thing about that race was that two top riders could be dicing so hard and going so fast. Rossi and Stoner don't have much faster bikes than everyone else, they're just better riders. Oh, that and the fact that Dani Pedrosa didn't start and Jorge Lorenzo crashed out early. You can call this uncompetitive if you want, I call it fantastic racing.

[JMemonic]

Tell me then sir, why it is you are spending your precious timing making posts like this on the internet? Surely the time it took you type up that message could have been used for far more productive things?

I was doing the same thing at that time as I am doing whilst making this post, taking a break and enjoying a relaxing cup of tea whist browsing my favourite motorcycle related forum, I was appalled to discover that due to my non viewing of television, thus motorcycle racing on said television I was either not a real motorcyclist or missing out on some wisdom that was critical to my future as a motorcyclist.

Guess I had better get a telly and spend silly amounts of potential gas money on paid TV, I can then watch motorcycles on telly and not ride them.

[jrandom]

Jorge Lornezo

Now there's a man...

<img src="http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.com/warehouse/storage2/2007-w42/img.31565_t.jpg"/>

... who likes being up in the air.

<img src="http://www.mgpafrique.net/images/lorenzo-crash-china_04.jpg"/>

<img src="http://www.mgpafrique.net/images/lorenzo-crash-china_06.jpg"/>

<img src="http://resources.motogp.com/files/images/xx/2008/MotoGP/CHN/non/220127_.preview_big.jpg"/>

[jrandom]

Guess I had better get a telly and spend silly amounts of potential gas money on paid TV, I can then watch motorcycles on telly and not ride them.

You seem quite sensitive about all this.

:sherlock:

[Badjelly]

Now there's a man...

... who likes being up in the air.

...much more than coming down again.

Poor Jorge. He clearly has the potential to be one of the best. If only the bike would stop high-siding him. You know a bit about avoiding highsides, jrandom, perhaps you could give him a bit of advice. Something about staying on the gas?

[jrandom]

You know a bit about avoiding highsides, jrandom, perhaps you could give him a bit of advice. Something about staying on the gas?

S'true.

If he'd stayed on the gas last week at Laguna Seca, he wouldn't have two broken ankles right now.

I have a very comfortable armchair, and I win all sorts of races from it.

[martybabe]

S'true.

If he'd stayed on the gas last week at Laguna Seca, he wouldn't have two broken ankles right now.

I have a very comfortable armchair, and I win all sorts of races from it.


How so, I win all the races from my armchair, well hanging off it. You must be in second place JR. :laugh:

Bang on about the gas though, never come off the gas in my chair and never broke my ankles.

[Number One]

How so, I win all the races from my armchair, well hanging off it. You must be in second place JR. :laugh:

Bang on about the gas though, never come off the gas in my chair and never broke my ankles.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1264/1464575808_4104fb7c66.jpg?v=0
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/magazine/1506/pl_armchair_f.jpg

[Number One]

Actually MBabe - this more your style...though it would be going backwards?

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r46/Motorbiker_photos/NewsPics/oldNewsPics2/Motorcycle-Chair.jpg

[martybabe]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1264/1464575808_4104fb7c66.jpg?v=0
http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/magazine/1506/pl_armchair_f.jpg

Second ones the winner. :shifty:

[Number One]

Second ones the winner. :shifty:
Clawton Road.........:whistle:

[R6_kid]

I was doing the same thing at that time as I am doing whilst making this post, taking a break and enjoying a relaxing cup of tea whist browsing my favourite motorcycle related forum, I was appalled to discover that due to my non viewing of television, thus motorcycle racing on said television I was either not a real motorcyclist or missing out on some wisdom that was critical to my future as a motorcyclist.

Guess I had better get a telly and spend silly amounts of potential gas money on paid TV, I can then watch motorcycles on telly and not ride them.

OH c'mon, its the internet ffs! Just because someone makes an overexuberant post doesn't mean you have to take it 100% onboard. Perhaps "everyone who loves motor-racing needs to see this" would have been appropriate.

Also i'm assuming your computer + internet bill wastes enough of your gas money as it is, not to mention eating into your costly servicing bills on your ST3?

Maybe it was your fault that Stoner ran off track into the dirt and fell off, and therefore WE all missed out on what could have been another 10 minutes of exciting motorcycle racing.

[mouldy]

It was brilliant but why did Sky have SBK on the other channel at the same time if it was delayed coverage ? If Stoner didn't like the way Rossi passed him he shouldn't be racing

[Oscar]

OK flame me if you will but I don't need to see this or have a desire to see it, call me odd or whatever but watching motorsports on TV honestly does not float my boat, (in fact TV does nothing for me).

Rather than wasting the time it takes to watch this I could be doing several far more productive things, but thank you for pointing out some information I had no idea about when I first started riding, in order to be a real motorcyclist I need to watch motorcycle racing on TV, learnt something today.

Thank you - I too learnt summat today.
Just when I think I'm the grumpiest cahnt hereabouts, you come along.

Fer fucks sake...What is more productive than watching Vale or Casey going mental at Luguna?

Hint - the only correct answer involves you doing one (or more) of:

Being in the race yourself.
Taking advantage of the fact the race is on to bowl several of the pitgirls.
Rding at Mugello, testing the 2009 Ducati MotoGP bike


If not - lighten the fuck up...

[dwnundabkr]

Thank you - I too learnt summat today.
Just when I think I'm the grumpiest cahnt hereabouts, you come along.

Fer fucks sake...What is more productive than watching Vale or Casey going mental at Luguna?

Hint - the only correct answer involves you doing one (or more) of:

Being in the race yourself.
Taking advantage of the fact the race is on to bowl several of the pitgirls.
Rding at Mugello, testing the 2009 Ducati MotoGP bike


If not - lighten the fuck up...

:2thumbsup:2thumbsup:2thumbsup

[boomer]

havent you done the coro GP with Kornholio?



A little bit of weeeeee(d) mixed with some hard liquor




0_o






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[JMemonic]

OH c'mon, its the internet ffs! Just because someone makes an overexuberant post doesn't mean you have to take it 100% onboard. Perhaps "everyone who loves motor-racing needs to see this" would have been appropriate.

You raise a good point and are right, it would have.


Also i'm assuming your computer + internet bill wastes enough of your gas money as it is, not to mention eating into your costly servicing bills on your ST3?

No not a lot at all really, and it gives me the opportunity to stir up folks, as to costly servicing bills what costly bills ??


Maybe it was your fault that Stoner ran off track into the dirt and fell off, and therefore WE all missed out on what could have been another 10 minutes of exciting motorcycle racing.

No doubt, by no paying to watch sky his sponsorship is missing out, isnt that how it works ...

Actually if you go back a bit and re read my original post, I actually thanked bobsmith for pointing out another of the reasons why I am not a real motorcyclist.

This has been very productive for me, I have received my very first red, thanks for that you know who you are.


Thank you - I too learnt summat today.
Just when I think I'm the grumpiest cahnt hereabouts, you come along.

Glad to be of service



Fer fucks sake...What is more productive than watching Vale or Casey going mental at Luguna?

Actually I would not know what the option of watching this is like or did you miss that.



Hint - the only correct answer involves you doing one (or more) of:

Being in the race yourself.
Taking advantage of the fact the race is on to bowl several of the pitgirls.
Rding at Mugello, testing the 2009 Ducati MotoGP bike


If not - lighten the fuck up...

Unfortunately whilst the options presented sound interesting, I cant tell you as I have no idea of what time this was presented on television.

[Oscar]

Actually I would not know what the option of watching this is like or did you miss that.




Unfortunately whilst the options presented sound interesting, I cant tell you as I have no idea of what time this was presented on television.

So then - being as how you just admitted to knowing fuck all about what was being discussed, why did you waste your incredibly valuable time (the time you spend NOT watching TV) in answering this thread?

Why don't you start your own thread:

How I don't waste my incredibly valuable time watching TV and how this makes me superior to everyone else.

You know you want to...

[Kornholio]

A little bit of weeeeee(d) mixed with some hard liquor
0_o


Pfft anyone could do what Rossi did on the corkscrew... like to see him try it with a car coming up the other way :p