2012 Silly Season

[gm2]

finally: http://motomatters.com/news/2011/10/27/eugene_laverty_to_ride_alongside_biaggi_.html

[ducpainter]

finally: http://motomatters.com/news/2011/10/27/eugene_laverty_to_ride_alongside_biaggi_.html

Camier out?

[gm2]

Camier out?

oh hell yeah.

[ducpainter]

he never did perform

[zooom]

he never did perform

once in a while he did....but it was like sticking Hayden on Dani's RC212V....lil bike not exactly designed around him or his style of riding...it was designed around Biaggi and a GP rider's style of bike set-up.

[ducpainter]

once in a while he did....but it was like sticking Hayden on Dani's RC212V....lil bike not exactly designed around him or his style of riding...it was designed around Biaggi and a GP rider's style of bike set-up.

Can't buy the size thing.

There was a pretty large rider doing well on an RC212

Maybe the inability to come to grips with set-up...but he's a professional...he should have figured that out during the season.

[gm2]

we should probably blame keith code

[zooom]

Can't buy the size thing.

There was a pretty large rider doing well on an RC212

Maybe the inability to come to grips with set-up...but he's a professional...he should have figured that out during the season.

rider size had more to do with wind deflection and how diminuitive the Ape is in general...as far as set-up, there seems to be with all the adjustability of that machine a countless number of configurations based on condition that Max understood based on his crew pretty much already being in synch since it was a reunion of a GP Team with a GP/Street based bike...and professional rider or not...Haga is a professional and his Pata 'Priller wasn't exactly producing any kinds of results till the very late portion of the season....and I figure there is a degree of him experiencing some of the same as Camier...

[zooom]

we should probably blame keith code

I blame that muppet for everything anyway....

[gm2]

supposedly there were material differences with the Pata bike.  supposedly.

of course, haga's real problem is that albatross around his neck.

[ducpainter]

supposedly there were material differences with the Pata bike.  supposedly.

of course, haga's real problem is that albatross around his neck.

^^^^

this

[zooom]

http://motomatters.com/analysis/2011/11/01/the_consequences_of_tragedy_motogp_s_sil.html

As they say in the professional cycling peloton in July, "The Tour waits for no one." The harshness of that cliché does not prevent it from being any less true.

[fastwin]

Good, informative article as usual.

[zooom]

Camier to Crescent Suzuki in WSBK...

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=46526

looks like the doors are closing quickly for Hopper....

[gm2]

looks like the doors are closing quickly for Hopper....

more likely some other decision has already been made.  my guess is LCR.