Originally Posted by
Dreama
Originally Posted by
pritch
Thanks for that. It would seem KTM have picked the right riders because Smith too has a reputation for being very methodical and giving good feedback.
The direct comment I received about Smith was ' ... he has an engineering background so he provides us with lot's of feedback. A lot of it is wrong and it sends him/us down the wrong path'
Just saying what I was told by someone at the coal face.
There could be multiple interpretations to that but Mark's pretty astute.
Now that's interesting. I always he Bradders was in intelligent, very articulate guy that could talk to the engineers. But it sounds like he overthinks things and that's making his feedback skewed so the set up goes in the wrong direction.
I can relate
Originally Posted by
Dreama
Guys he worked with,
Doohan " Took him years to get the setup perfect for him and he had a memory like an elephant"
Hayden " Did hundreds of laps in testing and told us nothing. Couldn't set a bike up to save himself"
Pedrosa " His bike setup is very user friendly"
On HRC ... "they are very respectful of their world champions. If that rider wants square wheels for next year ...." (that was a reference to the post Nicky Hayden Honda I think)
On KTM ... "they're very German like in their thinking. Extreme attention to detail and they can easily lose track of the goal. That's why they employed us ( meaning him and the Kiwi crewhief, Paul Tred..something), to keep them grounded. They come up with all these fancy designs and we just say 'that won't fuckin work' ... "
Now that's cool. Thanks for that. Interesting though, when Pedrosa was driving development the bike wasn't very good. I'm not surprised about Hayden though. He's happiest going sideways to the left so that tells you something about how he'll want a bike.
Zen wisdom: No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. - obviously had KB in mind when he came up with that gem
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
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