MotoGP 2024

[Grumph]

Standard club level mistake. Dive up the inside hoping a gap will occur. It doesn't and they bump.

And down Bulega goes.

Had it done to me at club meetings several times. Doesn't take much of a bump.


These PR races in midseason are not a good idea IMO. Too high a chance of getting hurt.

[onearmedbandit]

Some say it was a bad pass, others say it wasn't. All a matter of opinion really.

Edit - Seems Bulega's take on it differs from some online.

[iYRe]

That was my feeling as well, I found a few more video's that looked like he was trying to close a gap he momentarily left open and you cant do that when a shark is following lol.

[Reckless]

Here you go lads NZ times did this for myself might as well share.
Late night sunday but all watchable NZ time on 3Now

[iYRe]

whelp... that was a sprint of much action. Some of those shots of Enea drifting that bike towards the end are just epic.

MM:

“There just I touched a little bit the white line and I tried to come back and without a warning I lose the front - but it's like this.

“We are riding super fast, they are riding super fast. And as we see every race, somebody is gonna make a mistake.”

[iYRe]

Not sure what to think of the GP on the weekend other than the 24 Duc is miles ahead of everything - even the 2023. Issues with the front being too cold?

Interesting interview with MM

[pritch]

Simon reports that this lady is one of the team that designed the Triumph Moto 2 engine. If you had asked me to imagine a member of that team the result would not have been that good looking.

[jato]

Iqra Hamid
Senior Powertrain Design Engineer at Triumph Motorcycles Limited ... regardless of pretty girl or crusty old bugger i'd enjoy finding out how they go about their work - what size gear dogs for third? damper spring sizing? etc - they obviously are pretty good at it as i don't recall any poo-ing themselves

[Grumph]

Iqra Hamid
Senior Powertrain Design Engineer at Triumph Motorcycles Limited ... regardless of pretty girl or crusty old bugger i'd enjoy finding out how they go about their work - what size gear dogs for third? damper spring sizing? etc - they obviously are pretty good at it as i don't recall any poo-ing themselves

Agreed. Cameron used to refer to it as accumulating a notebook of what works. theirs must be pretty full by now.

[pritch]

Agreed. Cameron used to refer to it as accumulating a notebook of what works. theirs must be pretty full by now.

Triumph are doing the same as Honda did. The engines are sent to Spain and disassembled then reassembled so as to be as near as possible the same power output. Within 1% or 1.5bhp.

Here we are: https://www.gpone.com/en/2019/06/05/...ng-engine.html

[F5 Dave]

And what do they polish the ports with? I'd say Pledge. But they probably have a branded Triumph mixture.

[Grumph]

And what do they polish the ports with? I'd say Pledge. But they probably have a branded Triumph mixture.

Nothing. I'd pick that the bare heads go on a CNC controlled copy porting machine. As they come off those machines there's usually no hand work required.
It's pretty much the only way to guarantee equal flow between heads.

The senior Ban brother here in ChCh has one of those machines - which I've been fortunate enough to be shown over.

[F5 Dave]

Last time I saw Jr bro we were extracting ourselves from a trail we'd gone the wrong way into. He coped really well despite minimal dirtbike experience.
Later we traded phtos of medical interventions.

Humans are disgusting.

[sugilite:Me]

Been a bit to busy to post of late, did watch the silverstone races. I was home alone for the first time in a very long time, so I was yahooing out loud several times during the sprint race!
For me the main race was not as exciting.

I really thought MM would of won a race by now. I know the GP24 is a fair bit better than the GP23 this year, but yeah, hmmmmm.
Be interesting to see how Martin goes on the Aprillia next year. I do not reckon the KTM will be suited to Mavericks riding style at all. Though I stand to be corrected.

[Reckless]

Not sure If you want me to take up thread space with these times. Say if it annoys you and I'll stop.
I do these on my computer and snap shot them with my phone as a quick reference because these days I can't remember anything for more than an hour unless it's something I want to buy for a bike or get for the race bikes LOL

Looks like qually and practice watchable on 3 Now
Download the sprint off reddit Sunday morning and watch with breaky.
Then prob a late night Sunday or download and early Breakfast on Monday Morn.
3now are too slow to get the races up early enough usually??

Only Bloody problem here it takes longer to transfer the download from the computer to the transportable hard drive so I can take it up to the TV and watch.
They are all networked I'll have to find out how to share it.
I can download directly to the drive but its just as slow must be the speed of the cable between my computer and the drive.
Bloody frustrating when the download is 14 mins and the drive transfer is another 25 mins. First world problems lol

Enjoy