Josh Coppins plans..

**little.whittle** · 4th October 2009, 18:39

http://www.bikesportnz.com/?p=1370#more-1370

Very interesting. Aprilla must be offering something huge if he turnd down a honda deal!

**flyingcr250** · 4th October 2009, 18:55

Originally Posted by little.whittle

http://www.bikesportnz.com/?p=1370#more-1370

Very interesting. Aprilla must be offering something huge if he turnd down a honda deal!

good on him, i wouldnt come back either

**NordieBoy** · 5th October 2009, 06:42

Originally Posted by Josh

And I won’t be coming home to race in the Kiwi summer. I’ll stay in Europe and test.

Damn

Going to bee good seeing him on the Aprilia though.

**Reckless** · 5th October 2009, 11:05

Yeh interesting he had an offer from Honda as well!
I think the aprillia thing is a good move, there won't be so much pressure in him to win on it straight out of the box, like there would be if he was on the Honda.
And if they put in as much effort as they are with the new V4 Superbike he could do very well. As stated in another thread Aprillia make very good bikes.
Looks like the dollars where ok as well. Good move for both of them I reckon.
Go Josh for 2010!!

**denill** · 17th November 2009, 11:14

Have you read:

Josh says, A Change of Colour.

Hi there!

It’s been too long since I have checked in - my sincerest apologies. So so much has gone on but I’ll try and full you in on the most of it. The 2009 season has been a bit up and down. I started well but I lost way too many points from GP 3 to GP 9. I knew this but I had a few problems and I was doing my best.... It’s hard to see a top 3 result slipping away like that but I am happy to have finished the season strong. By now most people know I’m not at Yamaha in 2010. I want to say I have had a great time there for the past 3 years and they always looked after me. I am going to miss them and I hope they are going to miss me!

Due to many factors I knew and so did they that we wouldn’t continue the relationship for 2010. Yamaha have re-structured due to some budget cuts and have gone with a MX1 and a MX2 rider for 2010. David Philippaerts will stay and they have taken on Gautier Paulin , who is a great kid with a big future. My mechanic Fabio will stay at Rinaldi. We both wanted to continue to work together as the past 8 years have been great but it wasn’t possible for many reasons. I am happy and so is he so it’s good to part like this but never the less it was a sad day when we did our last race. Fabio and I have won around 12 GP’s and had over 30 podiums on the world champs together. Over the 8 years we have grown to respect each other and our friendship will continue forever.

Many people speculated that I was going to Aprilia for 2010 and it was true but it took a long time to sort out. At first I was thinking to head home and race in Australia. Why? because I liked the idea of heading home and trying something new... but then Aprilia came along with an interesting proposal and after a lot of meetings and talks we finally made it all official last week. My decision has certainly raised eyebrows and I will admit I wasn’t sure at first - that was until I tested the bike and visited the factory in Noale, Italy.

After testing the bike and seeing the Aprilia racing structure first hand I was convinced that not only is the bike good but there also so much potential in the project and still a lot to come. My goal is to be the first rider to win a GP on a V- twin. I’ve had 1 test and have another scheduled next week. There is not a lot of work to do. The bike handles well and honestly it is the fastest dirt bike I’ve ever ridden…

For the past 4 weeks I’ve been on holiday and have just relaxed and put on a lot of weight! My training will begin again soon, which to I’m looking forward to. On my break I’ve been to Dubai which was a cool experience... We went scuba diving, shopping, surfing at a water park, and to the world’s biggest indoor snow park. The F1 was on and I had planned to go but it sold out. I tried to buy some tickets from the black market but they were 600£ each so I settled to watch it on TV. Since being back I’ve done a shop open day in the UK and also a few prize-giving’s for clubs. I also visited the dirt bike show in the UK and last week I went to Eicma motorcycle show in Milan, I spent the day at Aprilia (check me out on biaggis superbike) and I visited my other sponsors: THOR, AIROH and SCOTT. I was only there for the day so it was busy.

Last weekend was Myla’s christening. It was a great day and I was a very proud dad. She took it all in her stride and there were no tears - she handled it all well. A mate of mine is playing rugby for England this weekend against the All Blacks and has got us tickets to go to the game. It’s at Twickenham and I can’t wait. I’ve told him I’d be happy if he gets a few tries but as long as the All Blacks win it will be all ok!

On a sad note I was sorry to hear of Timotei Potisek’s death. I was only racing with him a few weeks earlier in France and he was his normal happy smiling self. RIP Timotei and my thoughts are with his family. Last week I visited Ty Kellet. He is the rider who had a bad accident at the Weston beach race. He is still in hospital but doing really well. I will visit him again tonight and must say I was nervous to visit him the first time as I wasn’t sure if he would want to see a racer after such a bad accident. His family and him were really happy to see me and we all talked about racing all night. I took him a DVD but he already had it! It’s great to see him happy and to know that full recovery is ahead.

I’ve got a few more days of rest on the calendar before I push the reset button and start the hard work for 2010. That’s it for now. Thanks for checking in.

Cheers,

JC.

**vazza** · 17th November 2009, 11:48

Good read!

**secondfield** · 17th November 2009, 13:22

Cool, seems like exciting times for the man. The fastest dirt bike he's ever ridden!! wicked, he seems quite comfortable with them, and with a bit of pressure off the man (high profile team that EXPECTS podiums) he could do very well for Aprilla in 2010. They are wicked bikes. Apparently Ben Townley has been winding him up a bit about the bike saying it would prolly case out on the big jumps hahaha...

After hoping he would come back to race in now say good decision Josh, NZ and Aussie will be here for a looong time yet mate. He'd probably get bored if he came home too soon,plenty of time for that,and his Mrs family are in the UK as well...

**FlangMasterJ** · 17th November 2009, 13:59

That's awesome.

I wonder what sort of HP those twins are putting out?

**denill** · 17th November 2009, 14:07

Originally Posted by FlangMasterJ

That's awesome. I wonder what sort of HP those twins are putting out?

We will see in 2010 - as Josh is a guy who won't be World Champion in that year, but you can bet that he will be determined to be there or thereabouts, as that's the way he competes. Going to be very interesting.

**Reckless** · 17th November 2009, 14:37

I'll be behind him all the way as I have previously said this could be good for both of them as long as they can get the thing to handle!

Go Josh! World champ 2010!!!