Two Wheels

[wino]

WSBK standings after Imola

1

Carlos Checa
Ducati 1098R
75
2

Max Biaggi
Aprilia RSV4 Factory
71
3

Tom Sykes
Kawasaki ZX 10R
69
4

Leon Haslam
BMW S1000 RR
47
5

Marco Melandri
BMW S1000 RR
46
6

Jonathan Rea
Honda CBR1000RR
40
7

Jakub Smrz
Ducati 1098R
30
8

Eugene Laverty
Aprilia RSV4 Factory
29
9

Sylvain Guintoli
Ducati 1098R
21
10

Maxime Berger
Ducati 1098R
20
12

Joan Lascorz
Kawasaki ZX-10R
17
21

Leandro Mercado
Kawasaki ZX-10R
2
22

David Salom
Kawasaki ZX-10R
2

 

[sincisor]

the new duc *static*



Ducati pulled the covers off its 2012 race livery for its GP12 Desmosedici machine in an online launch Monday featuring factory riders Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden. The new bike features more white and swatches of green along with the traditional Ducati red.
But the most interesting part of the launch came when Ducati Corse tech boss Filippo Preziosi divulged the angle of the GP12's engine - 90 degrees - and that the engine was 999cc, 1 cube short of capacity. Many techheads in the MotoGP paddock guessed Ducati was using a smaller engine to create better fuel mileage, a problem that emerged at times for the Desmosedici used in the team's balky GP11 bike.
Rossi and Hayden both complimented the bike, saying the front-end grip was solid but rear-end traction still needed improvement.

you're fucking kidding me... the author talks about the bike's COLORS????

 

[sincisor]

a good rider would have stayed in his lane.

 

[magoo]

We wish to publish the following updated press release from the Kawasaki Racing Team about the medical situation of Joan Lascorz, following the crash at the Imola circuit during official World Superbike practice yesterday April 2nd at noon.

Yesterday at 23.30 the surgery to put the vertebra into the right place was successfully finished, due to the impact the vertebra was moved partly damaging the spine.

Today at 9.30 the rider was asleep. Today at 10.00 a TAC was carried out to evaluate the range of the damage.

The medical service of the Hospital Maggiore di Bologna and the medical team that will take care of Joan in Barcelona are in contact to manage his transportation as soon as possible.

The Spanish motorbike federation is already managing the logistics and operations in order to be ready when doctors decide to proceed with transportation.

This afternoon more news will be released.

At 12.54 today, during the first session of official Superbike testing, the Spanish rider Joan Lascorz lost control of his Kawasaki in the uphill section of the circuit from Tosa to Piratella and crashed. The rider was immediately given medical assistance and transported to the circuit Medical Centre where, after first aid operations had been performed, a probable fracture of the vertebra was diagnosed. Dr. Giancarlo Caroli, the Imola circuit medical officer, therefore decided to air-lift the rider immediately to the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna by helicopter. Joan Lascorz will be recovered in the spinal injury unit of the Bologna hospital.

 

[magoo]

a good rider would have stayed in his lane.

A fast rider will use what is available. But this guy was a bit raggety in spots, maybe pushing a bit too hard on the road.

 

[wino]

Ducati Panigale 1199: Naked for your viewing pleasure

By Loz Blain
21:31 April 2, 2012

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Ducati's Pangiale 1199 - an engineering masterpiece, but not the world's best looking bike with its fairings removed
Ducati has released a series of photos of its revolutionary Panigale 1199 superbike without its clothes on, showing exactly how the bike is held together in the absence of a traditional frame. But while the monocoque chassis is pretty fascinating to look at in the flesh, what strikes us most is just how incredibly compact the bike is - every component has been squeezed into the tiniest possible space. In fact, you can't even see clean through the bike at any point until you reach the rear hugger. This is mass centralization and weight shaving taken to a whole new level … good luck trying to service the thing yourself!

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As you take a look through these pictures, here's a few things to take note of:

The Panigale's monocoque chassis

Gone is the traditional Ducati trellis frame that usually wraps around the engine. The Panigale is famously the first production bike to abandon an ordinary frame altogether. One chunky piece up front joins the main front end headstem bearing races to the top radiator and the front and rear cylinder heads.
A pair of boomerang-shaped supports hold the seat and tail unit up off the engine's rear cylinder, and a similar boomerang shaped mount hangs the swingarm off the crankcase. The rear shock sits slightly beyond horizontal, attached to the side of the rear cylinder. The engine doesn't sit in a frame; the engine more or less *is* the frame.
The lack of space

You'd have trouble fitting a credit card into any spot on the 1199. Look at the exhaust tubing, there's barely a cubic centimeter to spare. The top portion of the chassis also houses the airbox. The traditional Ducati L-twin has been angled back 6 degrees to let the front wheel fit in front of the radiators.

The subframe

The Panigale's subframe and seat unit look absolutely tiny with the fairings off, but it's worth noting that the boomerang brackets that hold the subframe to the cylinder and crankcase seem to be designed to allow access to the rear cylinder head. It's unclear from the photos where the battery box sits, but it looks as though simply removing the tank and seat unit will get you through to the top end for those fiddly desmodromic valve adjustments. Good luck with the front cylinder though - that's a radiator-off job. Which means tank off, side fairings off, overflow bottle off, and you'll also have to remove the plastic doodad that bolts to the top fairings on the left hand side. Servicing the Panigale will be a bit of a mission.

Heat dispersion

One of the biggest problems that arises when you pack a lot of engine into a tiny amount of space is that there's very little airflow over the surface of each component to keep temperature in check.
The Panigale seems to have more or less surrendered to this fact - the ultra-compact design seems almost to shield the cylinders from any cooling airflow they might receive. And there's going to be heat - a lot of it. Remember, that 1199cc engine develops a whopping 195 horsepower at 14,200 rpm - a ludicrously high rev limit for a twin. It's the very definition of high performance. So here's hoping the engineers at Ducati have found a better heat management solution than the potato-baking Aprilia RSV4 ships with.

What about a streetfighter?

Whenever a new sportsbike hits the market, nakedbike fans like me start dribbling over the prospect of another high performance, balls-out streetbike with road-focused ergonomics and less nancy plastic covering up the sexy metal underneath.
But while the Panigale is certain to spawn some sort of nakedbike, maybe a Streetfighter 1199, it's hard to see how Ducati will get around the fact that this bike is … kind of ugly with its clothes off. The lack of a frame takes away one of the key design elements when you're looking at nakedbikes, and the engine area is so visually cluttered with componentry that you lose the aesthetic effect of a dirty big engine swinging in the breeze as well.
The best I can imagine Ducati coming up with is some sort of semi-faired street version - probably with even more plastic on it than the Tuono V4. I can't see the streetfighter crowd getting too excited about this layout - it's all function and no form. Then again, perhaps I underestimate their ingenuity. We'll have to wait and see.

 

[wino]

Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar racing numbers


Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Stock up on your stats and facts ahead of the first round of the 2012 MotoGP™ World Championship.
99 – Spain has taken 99 victories in the intermediate class of Grand Prix racing; 85 of these wins have been in the 250cc class and 14 in Moto2.
38 – Great rivals Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa have both won 38 Grand Prix races across all three classes.
25 – Julián Simón celebrates his 25th birthday on the Tuesday before the Qatar Grand Prix weekend.
19 – Czech 125cc rider Jakub Kornfeil celebrates his 19th birthday on the Sunday at the Qatar Grand Prix.
13 – Ducati have gone 13 races without a podium finish, since Valentino Rossi was 3rd at the French GP last year. This is the longest sequence of successive races for Ducati without a podium since they entered the MotoGP class at the start of 2003.
11 – On the Sunday of the race weekend in Qatar it will be exactly eleven years ago to the day that the opening race of the 2001 season took place at the Suzuka circuit, when Valentino Rossi won the 500cc race to give Honda their 500th GP win across all classes.
9 – This will be the ninth occasion that a Grand Prix event has been held at the Losail circuit and the fifth under floodlights. Yamaha and Ducati have each had three MotoGP victories at the Losail circuit. Casey Stoner’s win last year was the second MotoGP victory for Honda in Qatar.
8 – Eight of the riders on the full-time entry list for MotoGP raced in the 990cc era: Casey Stoner, Colin Edwards, Randy de Puniet, Iván Silva, Dani Pedrosa, Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden and James Ellison.
8 – Honda riders have qualified on pole in MotoGP at the last eight successive races. This is the longest sequence of successive poles by any manufacturer in the four-stroke MotoGP era.
7 – Seven of the riders lining up for the MotoGP race at Qatar have previously won Grand Prix races at the Losail circuit: Héctor Barberá – 250cc in 2009, Álvaro Bautista – 125cc in 2006, Stefan Bradl – Moto2 in 2011, Jorge Lorenzo 250cc twice and 125cc, Mattia Pasini – 250cc in 2008, Valentino Rossi – MotoGP three times and Casey Stoner – MotoGP four times and 250cc.
5 – On the Sunday of race weekend in Qatar it will be exactly five years ago since Casey Stoner started from pole at the 2006 Qatar GP, riding a satellite Honda in only his second ever MotoGP race.
5 – Only five different riders have finished on the podium in Qatar in the MotoGP class over the last five years; Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo each four times; three times each for Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi; and a single podium for Andrea Dovizioso.
4 – Honda riders have taken the last four successive MotoGP victories. If this run is extended with a Honda victory in Qatar, it will be the longest sequence of successive Honda MotoGP wins since 2003.
3 – Casey Stoner has been on pole for the MotoGP race in Qatar for the last three years.

 

[wino]

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We wish to publish the following updated press release from the Kawasaki Racing Team about the medical situation of Joan Lascorz, following the crash at the Imola circuit during official World Superbike practice yesterday April 2nd at noon.

Yesterday at 23.30 the surgery to put the vertebra into the right place was successfully finished, due to the impact the vertebra was moved partly damaging the spine.

Today at 9.30 the rider was asleep. Today at 10.00 a TAC was carried out to evaluate the range of the damage.

The medical service of the Hospital Maggiore di Bologna and the medical team that will take care of Joan in Barcelona are in contact to manage his transportation as soon as possible.

The Spanish motorbike federation is already managing the logistics and operations in order to be ready when doctors decide to proceed with transportation.

This afternoon more news will be released.
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At 12.54 today, during the first session of official Superbike testing, the Spanish rider Joan Lascorz lost control of his Kawasaki in the uphill section of the circuit from Tosa to Piratella and crashed. The rider was immediately given medical assistance and transported to the circuit Medical Centre where, after first aid operations had been performed, a probable fracture of the vertebra was diagnosed. Dr. Giancarlo Caroli, the Imola circuit medical officer, therefore decided to air-lift the rider immediately to the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna by helicopter. Joan Lascorz will be recovered in the spinal injury unit of the Bologna hospital.

Joan Lascorz Injury Update

Newsflash, 5 April 2012
After a crash during a scheduled testing session at Imola on Monday 2 April, Kawasaki Racing Team rider Joan Lascorz is now continuing his recovery in Spain, at the Valle Hebron hospital in Barcelona.

He is undergoing further checks and treatment for the injuries he suffered to his C6 vertebra.

The 27-year-old Spanish rider had an operation to relocate his vertebra at the Maggiore Hospital in Italy and the final extent of any neurological injuries he may have suffered are not currently clear and will not be fully known until the swelling around the affected area reduces.

All those in the Kawasaki Racing Team and the entire Kawasaki family would like to thank the many people, teams and organisations that have sent messages of support and best wishes to Joan and his loved ones at this difficult time.

 

[wino]

a good rider would have stayed in his lane.

Here ya go abattoir no lines here ( 1st one )

 

[sincisor]

back in 1997 i watched as the rider in front of me crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a car on one of the curviest roads here in texas. the following weekend it happened again and the rider was decapped. and every time there is a biker rally or just a busy weekend the same road sees more action. another section of road was 'straightened' for safety and ruined for the rest of us. selfish bastards.

 

[wino]

back in 1997 i watched as the rider in front of me crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a car on one of the curviest roads here in texas. the following weekend it happened again and the rider was decapped. and every time there is a biker rally or just a busy weekend the same road sees more action. another section of road was 'straightened' for safety and ruined for the rest of us. selfish bastards.

I get ya point, us old fellas have seen stupid at it's best we just dont do stupid, but my mood dictates my ride I only ride what I can see and sometimes I use all the road i can see

 

[sincisor]

not saying i haven't done it.. i'm as guilty as the guy in the vid.. or.. was as guilty.

 

[mrln]

my mothers new ride. she just picked it up yesturda. the bitch thinks shes still young!
http://www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/2012-bmw-r1200gs-rallye-preview

 

[Zayad]

^that's noice

I'm thinking of buying this, the guy selling it needs it gone and I need something cheap. I'm gonna test it today, see if I like it and make a decision.

 

[wino]

my mothers new ride. she just picked it up yesturda. the bitch thinks shes still young!
http://www.ultimatemotorcycling.com/2012-bmw-r1200gs-rallye-preview

Errrr is ya mom gonna do a trip in africa ?

^that's noice

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I'm thinking of buying this, the guy selling it needs it gone and I need something cheap. I'm gonna test it today, see if I like it and make a decision.

Why not it looks clean. How much ?

Lorenzo responds with top FP3 time


Friday, 6 April 2012
Jorge Lorenzo signed off the final practice at the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar with the fastest lap of the weekend so far, with Cal Crutchlow and Casey Stoner – who had been quickest in the two previous sessions – in the top three.
After Casey Stoner had led both of the previous practices Jorge Lorenzo took control of the final session on Friday, setting the best lap in FP3 and raising expectations for an exciting qualifying run on Saturday. The Yamaha Factory Racing rider put in a lap of 1'55.302 to top the timesheet, as he responded to the reigning World Champion's earlier efforts.
Completing a superb FP3 display in second position was Cal Crutchlow (Monster Yamaha Tech 3), who was just 0.154s off Lorenzo with a time of 1'55.456. Repsol Honda rider Stoner ended the last practice third fastest in a time of 1'55.674, although he did meet some on-track traffic when trying to put in one last flying lap before the 45 minutes were up.
Andrea Dovizioso complemented his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team-mate Crutchlow's impressive display with the fourth best time, and the Italian was the last rider to run under 1'56”. Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda), who had a fall in the earlier FP2 session, showed little after effects as he lapped fifth fastest at 0.812s off Lorenzo.
Héctor Barberá (Pramac Racing) was the highest placing Ducati in sixth with factory team riders Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi in seventh and eighth respectively. Rookie Stefan Bradl (LCR Honda) and Álvaro Bautista of the San Carlo Honda Gresini team completed the top 10.
Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing) only rode eight laps in the session, after crashing just 10 minutes in, and the American ended 11th on the timesheet as the only rider unable to improve on his time from the earlier practice. Randy de Puniet (Power Electronics Aspar) was again the quickest CRT rider in 13th, although the Frenchman had a fall at the very end of the session which left him limping away from his Aprilia machine.
NGM Mobile Forward Racing's Colin Edwards, on a BMW-powered Suter, kept the competition with De Puniet close at just 0.049s off his rival.
The MotoGP riders will return to action at 7.55pm local time on Saturday, for the 60-minute qualifying session.

 

[Zayad]

Why not it looks clean. How much ?

$2500, pretty good considering new tyres, custom triple tree and new brakes. I'll probably get it

 

[wino]

Kool is it your first bike ? post some pics of it when you get it. And be safe.

 

[Zayad]

Kool is it your first bike ? post some pics of it when you get it. And be safe.

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Lol thanks. First street bike yeah, but I've played around on dirt bikes and scooters.

 

[wino]

 

[mrln]

Errrr is ya mom gonna do a trip in africa?

no. she lives in arizona and travels to nevada and utah and california. i reckon shes going to trailer her bike with her. i dont know price tho.