Hopefully... Stay on the damn bike Nori san! Ganbare!
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Hopefully... Stay on the damn bike Nori san! Ganbare!
PATA Racing team intro
Yusuke (U-skay)
2002 WSBK Eric Bostrom Monza Wild Card Replica ZX-7R
2006 Track prepped ZX-6R
Always and forever will be a Kawasaki rider.
Awesome.
~Brandon~
Aprilia RSV 1000 R Factory - "Gemma"
MV Agusta F3 800 - "Amy Lou"
Rattan Fat Bear Plus - "Lynda"
(720) 935-6438
I rarely think of motorcycles without a little yearning. They are about moving, and humans, I think, yearn to move – it’s in our cells, in our desires. We quiet our babies with cyclic movement, and we quiet ourselves by going.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
I really would like to see him win the championship.
Dirk
Formerly MRA #211 - High Precision Racing
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."
--Thomas Jefferson
I hope he retires, after he doesn't win it again this year.
Honestly, how do you go from being in the top 2 one year, to barely doing anything the next year on the same bike?
Chadwick
MRA #825
"You live more for five minutes going fast on a bike like that, than other people do in all of their life." - Marco Simoncelli
He's said he can't ride like he used to because he's thinking of his family much more these days. I dig the Factory livery a bit more still.
"Every Crotch is a Rocket" HDAVE
'09 Suzuki SV650
'07 Honda CBR 600RR
'14 1875 watt Conair
MRA#522
Dunno what was going on in the background, but his motivation was definitely gone in 2010. Kinda like when he was moved up to GP500s in 2001 when Yamaha left WSBK. Who knows what was going on in the Xerox team/bikes in 2010...
I still hope he upsets the factory's and wins a couple of races! At least finish in front of Biaggi please!
Yusuke (U-skay)
2002 WSBK Eric Bostrom Monza Wild Card Replica ZX-7R
2006 Track prepped ZX-6R
Always and forever will be a Kawasaki rider.
The other bikes got better? I just randomly picked 3 tracks (Portimao, Phillip Island, and SLC) and looked at his fastest lap times from 2009 and 2010. It was virtually identical at Phillip Island. It was half a second faster at Portimao. It was a full second faster at SLC. Also, his fastest lap time compared to the fastest lap time in the race didn't see any drastic changes. (0.2 worse at P.I. for the essentially the same lap time, identical at Portimao, and 0.4 better st SLC). Now, I don't recall how other factors like weather and injuries might have played a role in these comparisons but there wasn't some obvious dropoff for him in those races. A look at all of the races might clarify the situation a bit better, but the indication seems to be that the Duc got a little better but the other bikes got a lot better.
Dirk
Formerly MRA #211 - High Precision Racing
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."
--Thomas Jefferson
Nice bike, I'd take it out for a lap or two.
I still think he's a great rider, he's just lost some of his hunger compared to others. I hope he has a great season!
Maybe Dirk, but I thought Haga was always getting out qualified by Fabrizio, which was on the same bike (unless he was getting a little something something done to his bike more than Haga's). You'd see Fabrizio consistently on the front two rows each race, but Haga would be in third - fourth rows...
I think Fabrizio was still lower in final ranking cuz he didn't finish races (a.k.a. 'Xaus'ing races) as consistently as Haga...
At any rate, Checa was kicking butt on a non-factory Duc anyways, so I just don't think it is necessarily that the Ducs were out-paced by other manufacturers...
Yusuke (U-skay)
2002 WSBK Eric Bostrom Monza Wild Card Replica ZX-7R
2006 Track prepped ZX-6R
Always and forever will be a Kawasaki rider.
'12 BMW S 1000 RR
'11 Suzuki V-Strom DL-650 *SOLD*
'07 Aprilia RSV R Factory *SOLD*
1989 Honda Hawk,2005 crf250x supermoto
It is better to communicate good information than to offer misinformation in the name of good communication. Alastair B Fraser
Yusuke (U-skay)
2002 WSBK Eric Bostrom Monza Wild Card Replica ZX-7R
2006 Track prepped ZX-6R
Always and forever will be a Kawasaki rider.
Yusuke (U-skay)
2002 WSBK Eric Bostrom Monza Wild Card Replica ZX-7R
2006 Track prepped ZX-6R
Always and forever will be a Kawasaki rider.
If anyone can go from hero to zero its Haga.
He has as good as any shot as anyone on the grid this year.
And he is riding Biaggi's world champion bike from last year!
GO NITRO!!!
Sorry it's old school, but I associate Haga with the R7.
Haga on the R7 was pure magic...
Edwards vs. Haga WSBK 2000 Hockenheim
Bayliss vs. Haga WSBK 2000 Assen
Last edited by green_zx7r; Sat Jan 29th, 2011 at 09:05 AM.
Yusuke (U-skay)
2002 WSBK Eric Bostrom Monza Wild Card Replica ZX-7R
2006 Track prepped ZX-6R
Always and forever will be a Kawasaki rider.
Yusuke (U-skay)
2002 WSBK Eric Bostrom Monza Wild Card Replica ZX-7R
2006 Track prepped ZX-6R
Always and forever will be a Kawasaki rider.