MotoGP 2014

[Crasherfromwayback]

Have you been watching the Sochi Olympics downhill racing...fucking awesome.

Fucking madness eh!

[eelracing]

Fucking madness eh!

It's one of those sports where pie eating would be advantageous to momentum...but goddamn the airtime looks downright suicidal.

[Crasherfromwayback]

It's one of those sports where pie eating would be advantageous to momentum...but goddamn the airtime looks downright suicidal.

Having done a fair bit of snowboarding...I sorta have a fair idea what they're getting up to But yeah...fuck that!

[pritch]

VR's old man runs a specific dirt bike training facility IIRC. maybe a 1/4 mile dirt track oval?

Not quite. VR has a "ranch" near Tavullia. The track is not oval it's more complicated than that. I think the surface is some sort of seal covered in white sandy material. There should be lots of video clips on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsYwOGBiLxk

I was checking the news on my cell phone and reading about a motorcyclist who had crashed and who mey have been drinking.
At the end of the item was a heading: Related News Grand Prix champion breaks leg.

A fairly tenuous link I thought.

[merv]

Perhaps the other guy was a champion drinker, so they are both champions.

[pritch]

Perhaps the other guy was a champion drinker,

It was a single vehicle accident, the rider failed to take a "moderate" bend. He then told witnesses that he had been drinking. It might be uncharitable of me but from the limited info available he seems more chump than champ.

[BMWST?]

They dont "play" in the dirt,its training,they reckon its the best way to train short of a! circuit and motogp bike,dont forget they only can ride the gp bikrs at "proper" sessions

[husaberg]

They dont "play" in the dirt,its training,they reckon its the best way to train short of a! circuit and motogp bike,dont forget they only can ride the gp bikrs at "proper" sessions

Worked for Rainey Lawson Kenny and Jon plus many others Inc Magee,Abe
XR100's

Kenny Roberts Ranch


http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...1&d=1329114600

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...2&d=1329114628

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...3&d=1329114654

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...4&d=1329114681

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...5&d=1329114709

[Mental Trousers]

They dont "play" in the dirt,its training,they reckon its the best way to train short of a! circuit and motogp bike,dont forget they only can ride the gp bikrs at "proper" sessions

I know that. The training is still playing even though they're doing things like learning to slide the front/rear/both and all the other techniques that dirt bike riding teaches.

As a manager I'd be telling them to go and wrestle an overweight and under powered superstocker on knackered tyres around instead, they'd be far more likely to make the starting grid for the first MotoGP race without injury.

[pritch]

Interesting news breaking in Spain. Carmelo Ezpeleta and the Jerez circuit are being investigated for fraud by the Spanish tax authorities. No threat to the 2014 GP round at this stage.

[Shaun Harris]

Interesting news breaking in Spain. Carmelo Ezpeleta and the Jerez circuit are being investigated for fraud by the Spanish tax authorities. No threat to the 2014 GP round at this stage.

Spain, fraud, tax issues, surprise surprise

[pritch]

Courtesy of Mat Oxley and Google Translate:
http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...0%26es_sm%3D93

[pritch]

Meanwhile bums warm seats on flights to Sepang.

[roogazza]

Spiral might be worse than a simple break or crack ?
MM is the alien,the other 3 are now just FAST !
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2014/Feb/140221mik3.htm

[Shaun Harris]

Spiral might be worse than a simple break or crack ?
MM is the alien,the other 3 are now just FAST !
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2014/Feb/140221mik3.htm

As long as it heals correctly, him missing a couple of test sessions will be no drama, harder yes but not a drama