Scary thing is I have been in the same situation biking in Italy and CH. RIP Chef.
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The only good thing is that the day is nice. Otherwise not so great.
57° cloudy
rainy and overcast since sunrise
good day to say goodbye
ciao fernow NH
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G_270 - you had a long way to go?
way to represent
Box-a-neutrals
https://youtu.be/sjZXaUwYoog
^ Testicles the size of bowling balls.
FireBlade will kill someone soon enough. What a POS.
Did you see him hold his line and just stay on the gas while getting hit? Crazy.
Rossi suffers leg fractures in serious motocross crash
That's a damn shame...
I just wanted to post in here that I am now working at a motorcycle dealership again with the big 4 Japanese brands, so if anyone here wants deals on gear or parts or whatever, hit me up and I'll be happy to hook mags up.
Good looking out, guroo!
Good luck with your new job!!
Thanks Nutmeg. I’ll just say it’s a really nice shop near Nashville. Bikes not really included, but if you’d like me to find out how cheaply I️ can get you a motorcycle for I’d be happy to help. The only units I️ personally can get a deeper discount on are Kawasaki vehicles - %25 below msrp. On the vehicle note, though, I️ can at least give you something a dealer near you should be able to match.
Edit: don’t ask for Dainese or Aerostich.
congrats. I worked at a dealership years ago, was sponsored for hare scrambles, too.
stoked you bumped the thread up.
I was pretty busted up emotionally when Nicky died. My close friend's girlfriend had just passed away in a bizarre drunken fall down some stairs into a broken neck, then Chris Cornell, then Nicky. I couldn't take it.
all Great people gone too soon.
I've been digging the Norman Reedus bike show lately. Makes me want to get another touring bike and get back on the back roads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUNE-2oPoO4
edit: damn , chelsea is kind of a cunt in that
this is better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Z1zdLXC20
Not really sure congrats are in order - I'm essentially doing what I was doing in high school and community college, but thank you. My last job as a satellite radio talk show host certainly was cooler and paid more, but fuck those hours, fuck "fake news", and fuck working with family. Did it to be happy and healthy again.
On a side note, if anyone has NPR connections, lemme know! In the meantime I'm happy to hook up some mags.
I thought there was a dedicated Nicky Hayden thread but, I can't find it.
https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/rac...garden-misano/
Nicky Hayden may have left us, but he is not forgotten, and now the World Champion will have a permanent memorial in Misano, Italy, as the city pays tribute to the American rider as well.
Accordingly, the Council of Misano is planning to create the “Giardino Nicky Hayden”, which will be a garden near the intersection where Hayden’s fateful crash occurred, not far from the Misano World Circuit, at corner of via Ca’ Raffaelli and via Tavoleto.
The memorial garden will be built by Denis Pazzaglini, friend and former mechanic to Hayden, during his time in the Repsol Honda MotoGP team.
The garden is expected to open later this year on May 22nd, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of losing Hayden during his bicycling incident involving another vehicle.
“The installation will take the name of ‘Giardino Nicky Hayden,'” said Misano Mayor Stefano Giannini. “The Council of Misano immediately decided to accept the request received from Nicky’s friends.”
“The young American rider had found a point of reference in Misano and Denis Pazzaglini, a mechanic at the time when Hayden was involved in MotoGP, soon turned into a close friend.”
“Fate kept the two men together up to a few hours before the tragic accident, and to be together to ride on the roads of Misano.”
The whole Nicky tragedy is awful, so nice to see a tribute garden being done.
How about this weekends antics in Argentina? Watched the whole shitshow evolve on MotoGP.com and all I can say is wow!
No spoiler from me.
Petrucci losing it during Free Practice
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in case ya missed Argentina
http://www.motogp.com/en/videos/2018...OzMmZCXhCwZDZD
Uccio/ "That's ok baby, I got you."
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The Marquez show is going down this afternoon in Texas
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Not likely, but would like to see Cal win today.
Hard no! ^^
Carl “Crash” Crutchlow.
Yup ^^^ he was due.
Just finished watching the race, a masterclass schooling by Marc Marquez. Impressive showing by Crazy Joe today.
Scrubbing off 170mph is....
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Did you guys see Jakub Kornfeli’s save at Moto3???
Holy...
https://instagram.com/p/BjB8NBTj_yi/
Yup, drizzling yesterday morning and I watched warn up practice and all 3 races.
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FP 1 or 2, I forget which one
The new improved GOAT
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“Marc is a freak!”
Quote:
https://msmproduction.s3-eu-west-1.a...lemansmain.jpg I’m stood in the Le Mans pitlane, chatting with a venerable MotoGP engineer, trying to eke from him the relative merits of every bike on the grid.
“The holy grail of motorcycle racing has always been to come up with a device that can save front-end slides, and now Honda has one…” he says, pausing for effect. “He’s called Marc Márquez.”
And that there is the story of MotoGP right now. Love him or loathe him, Márquez is on another level to everyone else. He has an ability that none of the others possess. That doesn’t mean he’s unbeatable, because he’s not always the fastest man out there, but it’s this unique talent that helps him to make the difference.
Most people only notice Márquez sliding the front tyre when he’s saving a slide, or not quite saving a slide. But his uncanny ability to play with the front tyre isn’t merely about trying to save crashes; it’s about using the front-tyre slide as a performance tool, to help pivot the bike at the apex of the corner to tighten his line and therefore cut faster lap times.
His almost supernatural ability to save front slides was especially noticeable at Le Mans, where there were no less than 109 crashes over the three days, more than twice the total at Jerez a fortnight earlier.
Márquez was one of those fallers. On Saturday morning he was, as always exploring deep into the unknown when he tipped into the Turn 3 left-hander, lost the front at 56 degrees of lean and crashed his Repsol Honda RC213V. But the crash was a long-time coming, especially in super-slow-mo. The front tyre folded to the left a few degrees, the handlebars swung the same way by a few degrees and the bike stayed like that for what seemed like an eon, as he fought to stay in control, by digging his left elbow into the kerb, by digging his left knee into the asphalt, by adjusting his body position and by gently opening the throttle take load off the front tyre. Throughout these few seconds the tyre had already lost grip, it was merely skating across the asphalt, while Márquez scrambled to remove some load, slow the skid and give the rubber a chance to regain traction.
Finally the battle was lost, the handlebars swung to full lock and he was down: scraping the bodywork, breaking the aero and snapping a footrest. Márquez got straight to his feet, picked the bike out of the gravel, bumped-started the engine and carried on like nothing had happened, upping his pace over the next few laps to go second quickest in the session, even though the RCV’s lopsided aero made the bike pull to the right whenever he hit the brakes.
There is a reason why riders crash at Turn 3 (Le Mans’ first left-hander). The left side of the front tyre hasn’t touched the asphalt since Turn 12 of the previous lap and has been cooling down ever since, so by the time the rider arrives at Turn 3 the front tyre may have reached a critically low temperature. This is something that all riders must deal with at Le Mans. I remember watching at the same corner on Saturday morning in 2012, when four MotoGP riders ended up in the gravel because their front tyre had cooled down too much on the start/finish straight. Imagine the psychology of dealing with that as you hurtle through the 150mph turns one and two, then brake into the next corner…
During Sunday morning warm-up, Tito Rabat had the exact same crash at the exact same place as Márquez 24 hours earlier. It was interesting to compare the two accidents in super-slow-mo. Rabat’s front tyre folded and the handlebars swung to the left, just like Márquez. And that was that. Rabat was down. Sure, the 2015 Moto2 world champion isn’t Valentino Rossi or Jorge Lorenzo, but his inability to play with the skating front tyre to bring it back from the brink was a perfect illustration of the difference between Márquez and everyone else, including Rossi and Lorenzo.
Then Márquez did same again during the race, except this time he didn’t fall off. The front folded as he swept into Turn 3, soon after he had taken the lead, and it stayed folded for a millisecond or three before Márquez dug his left elbow into the track to rescue the situation, no doubt utilising the lessons learned the previous morning. In other words, if his third victory in a row looked like a walk in the park, it wasn’t.
Riders had two realistic Michelin front options for Sunday: the medium or soft. Most knew they would have to race the medium, even if the tyre was tricky, because many riders had crashed in practice while trying it out.
Nonetheless, the three men most likely to win the race chose the medium: Johann Zarco, Andrea Dovizioso and Márquez. Dovizioso lasted five laps before he lost the front at Turn 6 and crashed, while Zarco lasted another two laps before he lost the front at Turn 8 and crashed. Márquez therefore knew he was in a risky situation and would need all his skill to make it to the finish ahead of the chasing pack.
Zarco blamed his crash on carrying a fraction too much speed into a downhill corner, with a full fuel load. Dovizioso’s explanation was a bit more complicated. “That was the first time I had used the front tyre to the limit. I braked a little late and went a little wide, so I tried to slide the rear to help the bike turn and remove some weight from the front, but I had two movements from the bike and when it came back I lost the front. I had also lost the front in practice; the reason I crashed in the race is because there is always less grip in the race.”
Fourth-placed Jack Miller raced with the soft front after the medium had given him a few scares in practice. “I think the soft was the right option, looking at what Dovizioso did with the medium,” he said. “Race day was hot, but with all the Moto2 and Moto3 rubber down, we needed the edge grip the soft had.”
Miller spent much of the race chasing runner-up Danilo Petrucci, the highest finisher with the soft front, and third-placed Valentino Rossi, who chose the medium. “I knew the soft tyre was a risk,” added the Aussie. “I got a lot of squishing and made a few little mistakes at Turn 8. A couple of times I went in there and had the front tyre collapse [deflect too much], so I had to release the brake and go again. Valentino made the same mistakes, so I knew it would be like that.”
Márquez walked the same line as everyone else but stayed on and won the race. It’s also worth noting that he was the only rider on the grid to choose the hard-option rear slick; so he had made brave but risky choices at both ends.
“Marc is a freak!” says fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow, who isn’t the only rival who holds the reigning MotoGP king in awe. “He saves a bike at 60 degrees of lean 15 times a weekend. That doesn’t happen with anyone else.”
The 25-year-old isn’t the first bike racer to rule the world by controlling front-end slides, which is probably a hundred times more difficult than controlling a rear-end slide. The man who first brought this dazzling skill to the sport was ‘Fast’ Freddie Spencer, winner of the 1983 and 1985 500cc world championships.
It says something that it’s taken 30 years before someone else has come along and done the same thing, albeit much more spectacularly, thanks to much-improved tyre performance. Spencer also employed the front-end pivot, just like Márquez does now, to help beat everyone else. The only reason both men can do that is because they have the talent to delicately skate on super-thin ice, lap after lap.
Many people call this a natural talent. But mostly it isn’t. Such skills come from a lifetime spent on bikes, going round and round in circles for thousands and thousands of hours, mostly on dirt bikes, to hardwire that information into your brain and your body.
How long before someone learns to emulate Márquez’s front-tyre skills? Nobody knows: it could be next week, next year, next decade or maybe never. So just enjoy it while you can.
Mugello or hazy yellow cloud central. Hopefully Marc really gives them something to boo about.
350kph or so
http://www.motogp.comfree-video
Crazy Joe is throwing the double finger to Suzuki this weekend, hope it works for him.
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Duc trying to flambé Dovi and this after setting the all time speed record.
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wanna watch Moto America on Bein but they don't have a deal with comcast. anyone know of a free stream ?
MotoAmerica - Wisconsin Superbike Race 1
3:00 PM ET beIN SPORTS
How about George on Sunday morning? Didn't he just School everybody! Good to see him get that first win in.
Just like this https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6kyfrj
Didn't see this coming.
https://www.crash.netofficial-honda-signs-lorenzo-twoyear-deal
No Halo's here!
KTM test rider Mika Kalio headed for a hard air fence hit in FP2. Knee injury has him out for at least the rest of the season. This after his 200mph high side last time out.
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Push for pole!
http://www.motogp.comfree-video-the-thrilling-last-3-minutes-of-q2-in-germany
Too busy golfing?:rolleyes2
British GP
One wheel braking
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Petrux almost takes out the Spartan, gets hot shoe!
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Hah, I've been pedaling too much myself, need more fast flicking.
Shitshow in FP4, Rabat out with a broken leg after getting hit by Morbidellis' bike in the gravel after a crash fest due to hydroplaning at 200kph. Rins jumped off at speed to avoid crashing. Good times.
160kph jumpoff
motogp.com/free-video-rins-jumps-from-his-aquaplaning-bike