MotoGP 2013

[roogazza]

You should post more often, you add a certain texture to the discussion.

Wow.
I don't agree with much off it, but it was tremendously well put.

He's been in Austruckingfailure too long, he's circumsized or is that circumspect ? hahaha.
Don't hold back Glen, tell us what ya think !! lol.
Too harsh mate.

[GD66]

Tee-hee, thought that might ring your bell, Gaz.

[Oscar]

Far from it. Pretty fair really. I like you.

Oh jeez...get a 'kin room.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Oh jeez...get a 'kin room.

lol. Well Stoner rejected me.

[Oscar]

lol. Well Stoner rejected me.

I heard that you were the source of the mystery illness...

[Crasherfromwayback]

I heard that you were the source of the mystery illness...

Nothing mystery 'bout that one mate. Been around for centuries!

[roogazza]

Nothing mystery 'bout that one mate. Been around for centuries!

You mean like a randy Italian trying to shag your wife ???

How's your hoof by the way, I haven't heard. You back selling motorcycles ? G.

[Drew]

You mean like a randy Italian trying to shag your wife ???

How's your hoof by the way, I haven't heard. You back selling motorcycles ? G.

Was wondering about that myself. Was gonna stop into the shop to see him, but I feel a bit awkward wasting salesmen's time other than Jimmy's.

What's the guts limpy, feeling better?

[Crasherfromwayback]

How's your hoof by the way, I haven't heard. You back selling motorcycles ? G.

What's the guts limpy, feeling better?

Cheers guys. Back at work as of last Monday. Sore as fuck, and pretty swollen. But glad to be back none the less. Was sick of my own company after the first week off. Three months off was a real drag.

[slowpoke]

I've always considered him an A-grade cunt. Befriended Gibernau then shat on him. Used the Italian press to complete his mind job on Biaggi. Totally dissed Lorenzo by demanding the wall in the garage. Shat on Honda. Shat on Michelin. Sucked the arse out of the Yamaha race budget first time round so they had to shut down their superbike programme. Raped the coffers at Ducati and achieved SFA apart from two years of mediocrity and a questionable development path. Has attracted a following of myopic F1-style yellow-clad followers who care nothing for any part of the sport apart from him and him alone. Has had a dwindling career prolonged by the corrupt Spanish wankers at Dorna who have never devised any alternative MotoGP marketing ploy for when he retires. And for a man in his thirties to still be carrying on as though he is a teenage cartoon character defies belief. The Doctor ? Give me a break...

Too harsh ?

Haha. Harsh? I can't hear what you are saying over the sound of an axe being ground to cut down a tall poppy in good ol' fashioned Kiwi style.

I'm not a big Rossi fan, all the early race winning "cartoon" antics just shit me to tears. I'm liking him a lil' more now that he's gained a lil' humility, reference his profuse thanks to Yamaha after his last win. Still, I'll be cheering a lot harder for a Dovi-type dude who just gets on with it.

But I see the flip side to what you've written. I saw the "Lorenzo wall" was a mark of huge respect for Lorenzo, no way would that have gone up if he didn't respect the threat Lorenzo represented. That'd be the Lorenzo who actually started copying the stoopid antics and even the asymetric colouring on the leathers (Red instead of yellow....wow, what a trend setter).

Sucked the arse out of the Yamaha race budget? WTF? Who held a gun to Yamaha's head? Same goes for Ducati. Rossi had a price, they met it, end of story...it's thing called business. Given that Ducati was sliding well before he got there (Rossi/yamaha-3 finished in front of Stoner/ducati-4 despite missing 3 rounds with a broken leg in 2010), went nowhere while he was there, and continue to go nowhere even with Audi backing it's obvious to nearly everyone that Ducati is the problem, not Melandri, not Hayden, not Capirossi and not Rossi. You could actually argue the opposite re "raping the coffers at Ducati": they got incredible mileage out of Rossi but Ducati refused to spend the money they should to give a bike to anybody that was capable of running at the front. Emmett, Cameron and every other tech guru had a good handle on what was/is wrong with the Duc....but what did Ducati do? Contracted out a frame to a company that can't even build a decent CRT bike. Seriously man, WTF?! Even if it was half decent, are they going to instantly make up for a gazillion years of Yamaha/Honda frame development? Not in another gazillion years given their tiny (in comparison) budget.

And does Rossi own any media companies in Italy? Not that I know of. Face it Biaggi was/is a world class wanker (he didn't sit out a season because he was easy to work with did he?), and good vs bad sells papers and pixels, always has always will. Biaggi just about mindfucked himself outta last years WSB championship so to say Rossi "did a mind job" on Biaggi ain't sayin' much.

Michelin? The performance agreement goes both ways eh? Plenty of riders have lost their rides because they didn't make the grade. Michelin weren't making the grade, were given ample opportunity and made no progress. The front runners aren't risking Rainey type injury's or Simo type deaths to make up the numbers and expect to be given the right tools. If not expect them to find them somewhere else.

Apart from that you are bang on about the myopic fans and corrupt Dorna

[Reckless]

I was reading an article in the latest Cycleworld Race Watch section called Audi's Biker on Wolfgang Durmeimer. He is the man thats taken over from Audi to resurrect Ducati.
He was talking to Rossi etc before he left and he also mentions that Ducati wasn't listening? And states the rider is one third of the equation and cant be ignored etc etc.
I cant seem to find it on their web site???

I did come across their Assen wrap up which chats about the Ducati 90deg engine set up some more here
http://www.cycleworld.com/2013/07/01...no-rossi-wins/

[Crasherfromwayback]

Michelin? The performance agreement goes both ways eh? Plenty of riders have lost their rides because they didn't make the grade. Michelin weren't making the grade, were given ample opportunity and made no progress. The front runners aren't risking Rainey type injury's or Simo type deaths to make up the numbers and expect to be given the right tools. If not expect them to find them somewhere else.

Fuck off. Rossi enjoyed many years of Michelin supremecy, but turned his back on them and broke a written contract half way through a season unlike all the other Michelin contracted riders. How would he like it if Ducati had torn up his contract half way through the first year as he was riding it like a gay cunt? Goes two ways mate. He had it oh so good for so many years. yet shat on them (Michelin) as soon as things got a lil tough. Don't forget...that Dani Pedrosa was actually winning the championship until he binned it in the wet at Germany that year. Whilst using Michelins...take your blinkers off. He's a Primadonna of the highest order.

[Drew]

How would he like it if Ducati had torn up his contract half way through the first year as he was riding it like a gay cunt?

Not your best example Pete. I think he would have thrown a massive party, and started negotiating with another manufacturer straight away.

They knew after a couple months that the bike was fucked.

[gixerracer]

Fuck off. Rossi enjoyed many years of Michelin supremecy, but turned his back on them and broke a written contract half way through a season unlike all the other Michelin contracted riders. How would he like it if Ducati had torn up his contract half way through the first year as he was riding it like a gay cunt? Goes two ways mate. He had it oh so good for so many years. yet shat on them (Michelin) as soon as things got a lil tough. Don't forget...that Dani Pedrosa was actually winning the championship until he binned it in the wet at Germany that year. Whilst using Michelins...take your blinkers off. He's a Primadonna of the highest order.

Hang on hang on. Pedro also jumped I think after Bruno round? in which he said was the most embarrising race of his life because the tyres were crap. Pretty sure there was a clause that said provide a competitve tyre contract was not being upheld was it.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Hang on hang on. Pedro also jumped I think after Bruno round? in which he said was the most embarrising race of his life because the tyres were crap. Pretty sure there was a clause that said provide a competitve tyre contract was not being upheld was it.

Don't remember that.