http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2012/Mar/12032846.htmOriginally Posted by roogazza
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http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2012/Mar/12032846.htm
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Forum whore
Yep, those were the days.
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Aye. I wet myself when I first rode my RS250. I can only imagine and dream what the 500 was like.
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That Ducati photo wasn't Rossi, that's Toni Elias in disguise...
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You know I'm a Honda fan but do we agree the NSR500 was the greatest Grand (pronounced with a good American accent) Prix machine of all time? It won 10 rider's championships in its 19 years.
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Merv
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Hard to say, by what criteria are you judging? Aprilia's complete annihilation of the 250 class is hard to go past, as are Count Agusta's dominant MV's.
With all the CRT knocking going on here's an interesting timesheet from the "Golden Era": http://www.superbikeplanet.com/image...sfolder/33.htm. There was a huge field that MotoGP can only dream off, but check out the disparity in times: 8sec's. Also great to see a certain Mr Stroud on the grid, albeit armed with a knife in a gun fight.
Basically, unless you had Factory backing you were buggered: it's funny how things change yet stay the same.......
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To a certain extent Merv. But that Yamaha was always a pretty good bike too. Honda simply always spent the money to have the best riders most of the time.
Easy Biker
Yeah well you could probably tell I was a bit tongue in cheek with my question because even as a Honda fan I thought they were a bit over the top with their claim. The run by MV probably can't be beaten, some would say they had it easy then, but there were sure a lot that tried to knock them off, Honda included with Hailwood, but he never won the 500 crown on a Honda but he did on MV. MV won 17 straight and 18 altogether, though not with quite the same bike as some were fours and some were triples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...orld_Champions Perhaps that is Honda's argument if you take the NSR as a specific model at 10 championships it probably did win the most 500 titles.
The saddest part of the story though as we all know is that if Doohan hadn't got so badly injured in '92 he was a cert for the championship then, but then Rainey had his accident the following year and who's to say if that didn't happen the Yamaha would have had a better record? Just goes to show that racing has that knife edge to it and no matter how good the bike, the rider and luck still play their part.
The rule changes don't help either - how well in recent times could the RC211V V5 done if they'd kept the 990 formula longer and Rossi hadn't gone to Yamaha? There are a lot of variables involved in conjecture huh.
Roll on 2012 season.
Cheers
Merv
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Honda certainly caught them all napping with the V5. Awesome bike. I loved the way it sounded in person. The NSR certainly was the 5 hundy I'd love to have ridden though.
And yes. Can't wait!
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Thanks that was intresting article i have not read anything from this man before . reminds me kevin cameron
In cycle magizine he was awsome techical writer
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well in a bout a week we will have the new season before us!
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Can't farken wait. It's been so boring during the off season I downloaded all 3 seasons of Veronica Mars just so I had something to watch.
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Cheers for that!
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