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    Quote Originally Posted by White trash
    11:45pm. Looks like the folks staying at my place this weekend are getting Fuck All sleep, what with the party Sat night, "The Ride" Sunday and the MGP Sunday night.
    No worries eh, because presumably Mondays are a slow day at the shop - wouldn't matter if you are a bit dozy would it?

    Me, I'll rely on the VCR.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom
    Now we *know* he's just making things up.
    The FZR Genesis is a milestone model as it marked the transition from 2 stroke to 4 stroke supersport motorcycles. This shift represented a new generation of high performance big bikes, which employed Yamaha racing technology from the track. The first FZR Genesis, presented to the public at the Cologne IFMA motorcycle show in Germany on September 18, 1986 continued the success of it's supersport predecessors the RD 350 and RD 500. However, the FZR layout had already made its debut 2 years earlier. The first YZF 750 Genesis endurance racer was entered at Suzuka 8h race and at the Bol d'Or on the Paul Ricard track in France to "race proof" the "Genesis" technology.



    The endurance racer featured an all aluminium DELTABOX type chassis like the YZR 500 GP racer in 1984-86, which won the world championship under Eddie Lawson. This frame was a novelty and combined strength with lightness.

    Project leader Yoshiharu Nakayama benefited from Yamaha's vast racing experience with this layout, as Yamaha used the first aluminium frame in 1983 on the GP 500 racer.

    Former French team sonauto (today Yamaha Motor France) entered the Bol d'Or with the Genesis racer.
    One of Yamaha's most talented engine designers, Tamura-san, had worked on a radical new layout: four cylinder engine with five valves per cylinder and downdraft carburettors mounted on the 45° forward incline cylinder bank. Today, the basics of this power plant still represent Yamaha's four stroke high performance layout.

    The engine and frame were designed as a unit, therefore they fitted together very tightly and gave the FZR 1000 Genesis a compactness, that a big bike had never seen before. The handling set new tandards and the machine felt more like a racer than any other mass production Yamaha before it. With a weight distribution of nearly 50/50 front and rear and a rather low centre of gravity with the rider neatly fitted in the bike, the FZR was not only a high performer for straight line roads. This big bike was made for cornering and enjoyment both on a track and on public roads.

    The first model in 1987
    Machine of the year 1987

    The official Yamaha press kit called it the "Ultimate Road Machine" and the media responded enthusiastically. Ex-racer and former editor of a German bike magazine, Franz Josef Schermer, commented after his first test ride, "This was great…it may be likely I have just ridden the bike of the year. The FZR is a superbike through and through and I can only say: excellent." And indeed the FZR 1000 won the title "Machine of the year" only a few months later, from magazine readers all over the world.

    Second generation in 1989
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    So are they showing 125 and 250's live with MotoGP? Didnt the MotoGP race usually race around midnight with the 250's at 10.30 on Sky? If the coverage is at 11.45 must be just the MotoGP race live, right? Are the 125's and 250's on after that? (delayed)

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    Quote Originally Posted by celticno6
    The FZR Genesis is a milestone model...
    I know. Was yanking chains, etc.

    That was interesting, though. Ta.
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    why are people emailling yamaha too? did they do something to get it shown? I'm not suprised they were keen though with Rossi upsetting Honda so publicly on a yammy machine!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coldkiwi
    why are people emailling yamaha too? did they do something to get it shown? I'm not suprised they were keen though with Rossi upsetting Honda so publicly on a yammy machine!
    Yamah is meeting some of the costs involved in purchasing the television rights to MotoGP for NZ.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Makes you wonder how hard Sky tried to secure the rights, doesnt it?
    Only thing is now for Rossi to ride for Kawasaki next year, so we might get back to some close racing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gav
    Makes you wonder how hard Sky tried to secure the rights, doesnt it?
    Only thing is now for Rossi to ride for Kawasaki next year, so we might get back to some close racing.
    Then it would be a bunch of Hondas at the front with a Kawasaki dancing around them, instead of a bunch of Hondas at the front with a Yamaha dancing around them.

    I think it's fine as is...
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    Apparantly rossi said the other day that he is going to ride the rest of his career for yamaha. His current contract expires at the end of next year, so maybe he will retire from gp then. Probably getting too boring for him. If honda doesnt make a big step forward next year it will just be the rossi show again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coldkiwi
    why are people emailling yamaha too? did they do something to get it shown? I'm not suprised they were keen though with Rossi upsetting Honda so publicly on a yammy machine!
    From Prime's press release: Prime’s live coverage of the 2004 and 2005 MotoGP is proudly sponsored by Yamaha.

    So if Yamaha NZ are putting their money where their mouth is - why not email P_Payne@yamaha-motor.co.nz and say - thanks heaps guys.

    Any one who can't be bothered getting off their arse and making that simple gesture is NOT a M/cycle sport fan...........

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    Has anyone in D'Auckland got a tape/DVD of the race? The hotel I stayed at in Melbourne didn't appear to be screening the MotoGP, so I rang home (twice) and asked the kids to tape it.

    They 'forgot'.....
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    Quote Originally Posted by k14
    Apparantly rossi said the other day that he is going to ride the rest of his career for yamaha. His current contract expires at the end of next year, so maybe he will retire from gp then. Probably getting too boring for him. If honda doesnt make a big step forward next year it will just be the rossi show again.
    He'll go drive cages in F1 and make five times the money, IMHO.
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    Oh yeah.

    I didn't actually manage to watch it, but have since accifidenticalistically found out the results anyway.

    I'd still be keen on a WMV download from the website. Anyone keeping up with those?
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrandom
    He'll go drive cages in F1 and make five times the money, IMHO.
    Let's hope his results in an F1 car are better than his results in a Seat Rally car.
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Yeah, lol. He also got to drive a peugeot 206 in rally great britain a few years ago. He crashed out on the 3rd otr 4th stage though.

    I reckon he should retire to new zealand and race the production bikes

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