MotoGP 2015

[Crasherfromwayback]

Well - why don't you post a pic of him racing an H1R 500 G.P. bike, even before the Z1.. which he did.. ya aint read his book yet, then - eh?

Actually, I had a beer with him on the night he released the book at the bike shop I was then working in.

[J.A.W.]

So no, then, obviously.. (check his website - if you really want to know)..

[husaberg]

Incorrect. Croz, Gardner, Lawson, Rainey, KS etc etc all raced bike four strokes well before they did 500's.

Pete, Rainey had a year racing 250 GP bikes for Kenny Roberts in 1984
He then went back to the US for the next 3 or so years.

[J.A.W.]

Rainey had a year racing 250 GP bikes for Kenny Roberts in 1984
He then went back to the US for the next 3 or so years

& Gardner raced 2-stroke dirt bikes - before road racing a TZ..

[Crasherfromwayback]

Rainey had a year racing 250 GP bikes for Kenny Roberts in 1984
He then went back to the US for the next 3 or so years

Which is a far cry from a 500, as is an H1R. All of the names I listed honed their craft and made their names on big four strokes.

[Crasherfromwayback]

& Gardner raced 2-stroke dirt bikes - before road racing a TZ..

Aahhhhh...so racing an old two stroke dirtbike counts eh? Well that's it then...they all were two stroke experts well before they became famous racing big four strokes! Dork.

[husaberg]

Which is a far cry from a 500, as is an H1R. All of the names I listed honed their craft and made their names on big four strokes.

Pete a H1R is a factory 500 GP bike.
Tis what Ginger used to race.

Depending on the year they looked like one of these.

[Crasherfromwayback]

So no, then, obviously.. (check his website - if you really want to know)..

Well to save me the time (seeing as you know everything and have read the book), tell me how many times he raced his H1R Then tell me how many races he raced in on big four strokes before he went to the 500's?

And an H1R was what...80hp?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Pete a H1R is a factory 500 GP bike.
Tis what Ginger used to race.

LOl. I know exactly what an H1R is thanks mate.

[J.A.W.]

Aahhhhh...so racing an old two stroke dirtbike counts eh? Well that's it then...they all were two stroke experts well before they became famous racing big four strokes! Dork.

Dork.. it was a current 2-stroke dirt bike, & racing dirt bikes sure does count.. ask Kenny Roberts..
& a TZ is - what kind of race bike? Not a Castrol 6hr production bike, is it?

So yeah.. they really did have plenty of 2-stroke race rides up before going to 500 G.Ps..

[Drew]

Well - why don't you post a pic of him racing an H1R 500 G.P. bike, even before the Z1.. which he did.. ya aint read his book yet, then - eh?

Schwantz was racing years before GSX-Rs came out - too..

If anyone hasn't, I reckon they're the lucky ones. It's better written than the Britten book, but I thought it was still shit.

[J.A.W.]

Well to save me the time (seeing as you know everything and have read the book), tell me how many times he raced his H1R Then tell me how many races he raced in on big four strokes before he went to the 500's?

And an H1R was what...80hp?

Read the bloody book, you'll enjoy it.. ( you might even learn something)..

H1R was good enough for Ginger to get 2nd in the 500 World Championships & clock 173mph down Conrod Straight at Bathurst..

[Crasherfromwayback]

Yeah, he took his time - to get going fast on the 500s..
..but he was one of the few, very few, WSBK race winners to then make it big - in G.P.s..

Yeah but before world supers many many riders made the transition from superbikes to 500's and smoked it.

Most of them had also raced pukka 2-stroke GP bikes too though..

So a dirt bike is a pukka gp bike? And a couple of rides on an old 80hp H1R complete with drum brakes got him ready for an RGB500? Ok...you can win the Croz argument then. How 'bout the others?

And just so ya know, I've actually raced a *proper* 250GP bike, and no...that wouldn't count for sweet fuck all when going to a 500-4. But hey...you're the expert!

[Crasherfromwayback]

Read the bloody book, you'll enjoy it.. ( you might even learn something)..

H1R was good enough for Ginger to get 2nd in the 500 World Championships & clock 173mph down Conrod Straight at Bathurst..

Dude, a Moto Guzzi V8 did 180 mph back in the day. So fucking what? And I know how good Ginger Malloy is, I've raced against him.

[J.A.W.]

Croz won a TT on a 500, but he'd got the Bathurst lap record on a KR 750 1st..

& yeah, he'd won a more'n a few races on the big Kawasaki triples too..