MotoGP 2014

[husaberg]

Read something real interesting about the Doohan era the other day and it came from Doohan himself after he had retired
He and Burgess once bolted a pair of off the shelf Ohlins onto the NSR500.
With no adjustments made on the forks whatsoever It went 1 second a lap quicker.
They couldn't use them of course (Honda own Showa)
Now that should get me some discount from Robert Taylor surely

[Bender]

Nor would I believe anything that the Dorna PR machine pumped out. Or when a team says their rider retired because of an ignition problem. The old piston came through the side of the block and knocked the ignition off the engine trick. We just have to sort through it as best we can.

Fixt those for you.

[roogazza]

If you followed 250GP you'll remember this fella.
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/Nov/131120rambo.htm

[Crasherfromwayback]

If you followed 250GP you'll remember this fella.
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/Nov/131120rambo.htm

Yeah stink buzz. Especially at the event it was at too.

[roogazza]

Back in the seventies.
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/...stevebaker.htm

[Bender]

The Europeans never considered F750 a proper world championship series. To them WC were held in 125, 250, 350 and 500. Even though Patrick Pons won the first official F750 world championship the French didn't consider him a WC.

[husaberg]

The Europeans never considered F750 a proper world championship series. To them WC were held in 125, 250, 350 and 500. Even though Patrick Pons won the first official F750 world championship the French didn't consider him a WC.

Are you sure i thought Nixon was robbed of one before that?
hE GOOGLES
Oh yes he was BUT NOT FULL STATUS but 79 that still wasn't the first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_750

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Formula_750_season

Formula 750 was a FIM motorcycle road racing series based on a 750 cubic centimeter engine capacity. The series began in 1971 as a collaboration between the American Motorcyclist Association and the Auto Cycle Union.[1] The FIM adopted the Formula 750 class for events in 1972.[2] In 1973 it became a British based series. In 1975 the series was upgraded to European championship status and in 1977, it attained world championship status. The Formula 750 class was seen as possibly overtaking the 500cc Grand Prix class as the premier racing division however, the domination by one brand (the Yamaha TZ750) as well as the increasingly popular superbike production class meant that the FIM discontinued the class after the 1979 seaso

[Bender]

I am sure that I was wrong in part about Pons. He was the third winner but the French still didn't (and don't) consider him a proper world champion. They had a lot of clout in those days and shuffled the 750 class out of the line up mainly because it had become one-class (the TZ750). The Europeans had also been suspicious about the class from the beginning because it was set up under ambigious rules (was it for road-bike based engines or not?).

Yamaha even went to the charade of building a road version (the GL750) based on the TZ750 engine but whether that was a simple rule-beater or a genuine attempt at a new road bike is lost in the mists of time. Would have been quite a machine in its day but no more were ever built - just the one they showed at the Tokyo motor show in 1971.

[pritch]

You may have wondered what a Moto GP champ could spend all that money on.

Getta loada this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5eA3btpy9o&sns=tw

Funny, with all the lovely scenery - out the window, and by the pool, thing that impressed me most was the number of Charles Eames chairs. They cost about $10,000 each (if you're not into Chinese knock-offs) and he has a theaterette full plus another one in his bedroom.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Funny, with all the lovely scenery - out the window, and by the pool, thing that impressed me most was the number of Charles Eames chairs. .

Lol. You know you're getting old when you're more impressed by the chairs than by the hotties lying round by the pool mate!

[carbonhed]

You may have wondered what a Moto GP champ could spend all that money on.

how fkin awesome is that?

[husaberg]

I am sure that I was wrong in part about Pons. He was the third winner but the French still didn't (and don't) consider him a proper world champion. They had a lot of clout in those days and shuffled the 750 class out of the line up mainly because it had become one-class (the TZ750). The Europeans had also been suspicious about the class from the beginning because it was set up under ambigious rules (was it for road-bike based engines or not?).

Yamaha even went to the charade of building a road version (the GL750) based on the TZ750 engine but whether that was a simple rule-beater or a genuine attempt at a new road bike is lost in the mists of time. Would have been quite a machine in its day but no more were ever built - just the one they showed at the Tokyo motor show in 1971.

the GL750 was a bit suss, especially with the electronic fuel injection and the fact it was put on show immersed in a water tank kind of reeked of don't try and start me because i am a little fishy

[Mental Trousers]

This is how you beat Marc Marquez

[NAR RG500]

Read something real interesting about the Doohan era the other day and it came from Doohan himself after he had retired
He and Burgess once bolted a pair of off the shelf Ohlins onto the NSR500.
With no adjustments made on the forks whatsoever It went 1 second a lap quicker.
They couldn't use them of course (Honda own Showa)
Now that should get me some discount from Robert Taylor surely

If they had have strapped on a set with K tech internals then it would have been a two second a lap improvement.

Now that should get a response from Mr Taylor!

[speights_bud]

This is how you beat Marc Marquez

I liked how the slo-mo of Marc changing direction on the dirt bike is so similar to his body positioning on the GP bike.