MotoGP 2015

[husaberg]

Colin Edwards was, like Slighty, a classic 2nd string guy.. competent enough in WSBK, but not 'killer' enough - to claim the top step in G.P. racing..

To be fair
Slighty outperformed both of his world champion the previous years teammates.
Foggy 1996 and Polen 1994 when both raced the same RC45.
No one can claim they were not used to Hondas either as they both had extensive RC30 experience prior to Diucati mounted world championships
Both came to Honda wearing the number one plate and yet left lagging behind Aaron.

[J.A.W.]

To be fair
Slighty outperformed both of his world champion the previous years teammates.
Foggy and Polen when both raced the same RC45.
Both came to Honda wearing the number one plate and yet left lagging behind Aaron.

& then Honda cruelly threw him into Mick Doohan's grip, for a reality check..
Poor bloody Aaron, unlike Col'.. never quite made it - as WSBK Champ, either..

[husaberg]

& then Honda cruelly threw him into Mick Doohan's grip, for a reality check..
Poor bloody Aaron, unlike Col'.. never quite made it - as WSBK Champ, either..

Well Col was WSB champ. Aaron was more consistently near the top than anyone else I can think of in WSB then.
No one was able to match Doohan but Aaron was just as fast as a few other NSR500 riders who had ridden the bike for seasons on the two occasions he was allowed to ride the NSR.

[J.A.W.]

Yeah, ol' Mick was keen on the 'screamer' quick-spin NSR 500 crank configuration - to sort the men from the mice..

Has anyone tried a 90`- 'crossplane' screamer-type crank on a Yamaha TZ 750 - for classic racing?

[husaberg]

Yeah, ol' Mick was keen on the 'screamer' quick-spin NSR 500 crank configuration - to sort the men from the mice..

Has anyone tried a 90`- 'crossplane' screamer-type crank on a Yamaha TZ 750 - for classic racing?

Pretty sure he did that to Caparossi he did that too, it was a mean trick.
I whish I could find the article where he admitted to Nerfing Gobert to get him to shut is piehole about how great he (Gobert) was in a race.
Aussie dude is building replica TZ750 cases.
http://kelgrifpatterns.com.au/yamaha-tz750-crankcases

[J.A.W.]

I know.. I had a good talk & data exchange with Barry about it - some years ago..
& hey, maybe even a Ryger conversion would be do-able..

[gav]

Pretty sure he did that to Caparossi he did that too, it was a mean trick.
I whish I could find the article where he admitted to Nerfing Gobert to get him to shut is piehole about how great he (Gobert) was in a race.
Aussie dude is building replica TZ750 cases.
http://kelgrifpatterns.com.au/yamaha-tz750-crankcases

Huh? Capirossi ?? When was he ever Doohans team mate?
You surely mean Alex Criville, what was annoying Doohan was all the other Honda riders would just wait and read Doohans data and setup and run with that come qualifying and race time.

[husaberg]

Huh? Capirossi ?? When was he ever Doohans team mate?
You surely mean Alex Criville, what was annoying Doohan was all the other Honda riders would just wait and read Doohans data and setup and run with that come qualifying and race time.

Yeah might have been it was a eurofile with a bunch of vowels in his name.
Edit yip it was Criville

Loris Capirossi was Honda NSR500 mounted in 95 but not in his team

[Erelyes]

It won't rain and Lorenzo will beat Rossi on his home turf opening the way for the title.

It won't rain and VR will have a battle with JL, VR will win, and JL will look sour.

I will para phrase it but a uni in Japan (kobe I think)has this theory (backed by pretty extensive stats) that most top sportman only has the mental concentration for about 10 years at the top.
A lot of sports physiologists go along with it. I liken it to battle fatigue

Like anything 10 years is probably the middle of the bell curve. Some guys got battle fatigue after one firefight. Others kept at it even after seeing most of their buddies blown to bits.

[husaberg]

It won't rain and VR will have a battle with JL, VR will win, and JL will look sour.



Like anything 10 years is probably the middle of the bell curve. Some guys got battle fatigue after one firefight. Others kept at it even after seeing most of their buddies blown to bits.

Yeah but it was 98% after 30 days continuous exposure(ie without R&R) to the battlefield I know that the other 2% were psychopaths.
With Rossi that's maybe why he needed to part with Burgess so he could shake it up.

[J.A.W.]

Yeah but it was 98% after 30 days continuous exposure(ie without R&R) to the battlefield I know that the other 2% were psychopaths.
With Rossi that's maybe why he needed to part with Burgess so he could shake it up.

Shake what? His tail feather?

Your "30 days" worth - might apply to draft-bunnies - but to professional hard-arses such as SS/SAS, they'd go a fair bit longer..

[husaberg]

Shake what? His tail feather?

Your "30 days" worth - might apply to draft-bunnies - but to professional hard-arses such as SS/SAS, they'd go a fair bit longer..

They might well go on forever but they still have battle fatigue.

[Shaun Harris]

Yeah but it was 98% after 30 days continuous exposure(ie without R&R) to the battlefield I know that the other 2% were psychopaths.


With Rossi that's maybe why he needed to part with Burgess so he could shake it up.

Exactually why he did it. He needed to start again with a different route to follow, than what he and JB New. There is a new breed of riders and style he needed to adjust too

[J.A.W.]

They might well go on forever but they still have battle fatigue.

Which is what? Best to leave the analysis to those who do know.. (L.M.F.?)..

As for M-D's typical nonsense about V.R. adapting his style.. in reality, Rossi+Ducati = Epic fail..

[husaberg]

Which is what?

That's to easy not to answer simply a loss in performance.

Swank and Marchand's World War II study of US Army combatants on the beaches of Normandy found that after 60 days of continuous combat, 98% of the surviving soldiers had become psychiatric casualties. And the remaining 2% were identified as "aggressive psychopathic personalities."


http://www.killology.com/print/print_psychological.htm