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I dont know Yussa ^
Anyway how ya felling miss ?
Anyway how ya felling miss ?
They are getting better, thanks, I had a road trip on the weekend, and I had to take with me as many cushions as I could, to make my trip more comfortable. I went by car, I don't think I'm ready to get in a bike, yet.
Btw, that vid was funny.
fair call we tend to realise how fragile we are when bounce of hard things like the road. Are you doing any physio or exercises ?
if that had of happened to anyone in the group I ride with there would have been blood.
looks lilke a great road to ride on apart from the hillbillies.
I was told only to rest but I'm tired of rest, anyway I'm glad not to have broken into pieces.
I might be a little traumatized, but it hurt me just watching it!
Ryder Notes: Pinnacle
by julian ryder on the ground in australia
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Race of the year?
The 2015 Australian GP may very well have been the best race we've ever seen at Phillip Island. It is certainly the best MotoGP race we've seen since Barcelona '09. Both those races involved Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi but today's also involved Marc Marquez and Andrea Iannone, and if you think the last lap of Catalunya '09 was something, wait until you see this one.
Bear in mind that we'd already had a wonderful four-man dice for all of the race featuring Lorenzo trying to do his usual escape act, Iannone making very good use of what appeared to be a rocketship on the straight, Rossi at his cunning best making up for bad qualifying, and Marc Marquez at his mercurial best. It was a feast of the best of bike racing on what remains the best race circuit for bikes on the planet.
There were overtakes on every corner, massive slipstreaming moves on the front straight, and three makes of motorcycle with widely varying characteristics, strengths and weaknesses lapping at near-identical pace; paint was swapped, tyres were overheated, a seagull went to meet its make, TV commentators shouted themselves hoarse, and MotoGP trended on Twitter world wide.
Frankly, it would have done all that without the last lap. Underpinned by the subplot of what would happen to Rossi's 18-point championship lead and Lorenzo's need to do it severe damage, four men fought an astonishing race-long battle. Ianonne's double pass on Rossi and Marquez out of Lukey Heights and down to MG was probably the most gob-smacking moment, although there were plenty of contenders.
Lorenzo started the last lap looking all over the winner, his lead was over two-thirds of a second, with the other three covered by another tenth. Marquez was third having stopped pressing in order to let his overheated front tyre recover. Now he was worried that he'd let them cool too much but decided to push at 100% anyway. He started the penultimate lap in fourth and final one in third. He then magicked up the best part of a second to take both Iannone and Lorenzo and win by a quarter of a second. I doubt we'll ever see a better last lap.
Rossi tried to wrest third back from Iannone but couldn't. Jorge Lorenzo therefore reduced that lead from 18 to eleven points, and appeared much happier to see Andrea Iannone than he had after qualifying.
If you have any doubts that we are in a golden era of motorcycle racing or that if Rossi win the title this year he truly deserves to be called the greatest of all time, watch this race.
ENDS
by julian ryder on the ground in australia
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Race of the year?
The 2015 Australian GP may very well have been the best race we've ever seen at Phillip Island. It is certainly the best MotoGP race we've seen since Barcelona '09. Both those races involved Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi but today's also involved Marc Marquez and Andrea Iannone, and if you think the last lap of Catalunya '09 was something, wait until you see this one.
Bear in mind that we'd already had a wonderful four-man dice for all of the race featuring Lorenzo trying to do his usual escape act, Iannone making very good use of what appeared to be a rocketship on the straight, Rossi at his cunning best making up for bad qualifying, and Marc Marquez at his mercurial best. It was a feast of the best of bike racing on what remains the best race circuit for bikes on the planet.
There were overtakes on every corner, massive slipstreaming moves on the front straight, and three makes of motorcycle with widely varying characteristics, strengths and weaknesses lapping at near-identical pace; paint was swapped, tyres were overheated, a seagull went to meet its make, TV commentators shouted themselves hoarse, and MotoGP trended on Twitter world wide.
Frankly, it would have done all that without the last lap. Underpinned by the subplot of what would happen to Rossi's 18-point championship lead and Lorenzo's need to do it severe damage, four men fought an astonishing race-long battle. Ianonne's double pass on Rossi and Marquez out of Lukey Heights and down to MG was probably the most gob-smacking moment, although there were plenty of contenders.
Lorenzo started the last lap looking all over the winner, his lead was over two-thirds of a second, with the other three covered by another tenth. Marquez was third having stopped pressing in order to let his overheated front tyre recover. Now he was worried that he'd let them cool too much but decided to push at 100% anyway. He started the penultimate lap in fourth and final one in third. He then magicked up the best part of a second to take both Iannone and Lorenzo and win by a quarter of a second. I doubt we'll ever see a better last lap.
Rossi tried to wrest third back from Iannone but couldn't. Jorge Lorenzo therefore reduced that lead from 18 to eleven points, and appeared much happier to see Andrea Iannone than he had after qualifying.
If you have any doubts that we are in a golden era of motorcycle racing or that if Rossi win the title this year he truly deserves to be called the greatest of all time, watch this race.
ENDS
Gardner recalls first top 10 finish in home grand prix
Section: Racing Post: Alex Gobert
Australian teenager continues rise through Moto3 ranks.
Source: Supplied.
CIP Moto Mahindra’s Remy Gardner broke through for his first bunch of Moto3 points this season with 10th place at the Pramac Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix on Sunday, in an inspired ride for the Aussie teenager.
Gardner, 17, finished just 7.567s behind eventual race winner Miguel Oliveira at Phillip Island, placing six points on his world championship tally with two races remaining this season.
“I’m very happy about this result and about my performance during the race,” Gardner said. “After a good start, I’ve been trying to progress during the first laps and this strategy paid a good result.
“The most part of my race is been in the top 12 positions and making a good pace. This season has not been easy and with no luck for me, but things have changed at home.”
Team owner Alain Bronec was delighted with Gardner’s performance at home, the team rewarded with a points-paying finish inside the top 10 for the first time together this season.
“I’m very happy because Remy completed a very good and clever race,” Bronec said. “He pushed a lot during the first laps to recover positions and fought very well in the second half. Achieve this result in front of his home crowd and family is really great.
“All of us know that his father Wayne is an Australian legend and local fans had a lot of fun watching Remy’s progression and final result. It’s been a perfect weekend for him.”
Section: Racing Post: Alex Gobert
Australian teenager continues rise through Moto3 ranks.
Source: Supplied.
CIP Moto Mahindra’s Remy Gardner broke through for his first bunch of Moto3 points this season with 10th place at the Pramac Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix on Sunday, in an inspired ride for the Aussie teenager.
Gardner, 17, finished just 7.567s behind eventual race winner Miguel Oliveira at Phillip Island, placing six points on his world championship tally with two races remaining this season.
“I’m very happy about this result and about my performance during the race,” Gardner said. “After a good start, I’ve been trying to progress during the first laps and this strategy paid a good result.
“The most part of my race is been in the top 12 positions and making a good pace. This season has not been easy and with no luck for me, but things have changed at home.”
Team owner Alain Bronec was delighted with Gardner’s performance at home, the team rewarded with a points-paying finish inside the top 10 for the first time together this season.
“I’m very happy because Remy completed a very good and clever race,” Bronec said. “He pushed a lot during the first laps to recover positions and fought very well in the second half. Achieve this result in front of his home crowd and family is really great.
“All of us know that his father Wayne is an Australian legend and local fans had a lot of fun watching Remy’s progression and final result. It’s been a perfect weekend for him.”
Michael Cheika
Fresh Meat
Gobert ? . . . now there's name with ozzy motorcycling pedigree . . .
He's living in Queensland squats atm ( he's been to track since his last court appearance ) I used to hang out with this dad and cookie at the Island. I would like to think it all turned to shit for him when he broke his brothers leg, not much else to say on Anthony except he was a killer rider and I'm sure if he chose to resurface he could do bloody well on the current bikes and/or if that was not what he wanted to do he could still be an immersible help to ANY team that would give the guy a voice.
the guy had an ass, seat,wrist that only a few have. We miss the GO SHOW. I hope he is comfortable and in touch with his family and those who love him.
not sure how many of you will remember Poieter
One of the all time best.
Ryder Notes: Rossi Version 10.2.1
by julian ryder on the ground at sepang
Saturday, October 24, 2015
I'm not sure how many Valentino Rossis there are at Sepang this weekend, but I've seen at least two. First, the tightly wound guy who looked pretty old and drawn firing off conspiracy theories. He was here Thursday and Friday.
Today another one turned up. He looks about 25 years old and was stood grinning beside the two Repsol Honda riders in parc ferme after qualifying. This Valentino Rossi had just qualified third, knocking his championship rival Jorge Lorenzo off the front row and coming out with a fizzer of a one-liner: 'I remember I can be fast in the dry...'
This is the championship that just keeps giving, especially in qualifying. Dani Pedrosa dismantled the record lap, Marc Marquez made an impossible front-end save at the expense of putting a hole in the arm of his leathers, and Valentino version 10.2.1 magicked up stunning last sector of his last lap to get on the front row for only the sixth time this year. That put Jorge on the second row, but embarrassingly he didn't know and cut his engine to coast into parc ferme only to be turned away. Whoops.
The fallout from Rossi version 9.8.6's Thursday outburst continued. The fact that Lorenzo followed Marquez early in qualifying drew questions, as did Rossi following Ianonne. Marc said yes, Jorge had indeed followed him—along with Ianonne and a few others, and he couldn't slow down because he was on a three-run strategy and would have wasted a tyre. Anyway, said Marc, I knew I would go faster later. Similarly, Rossi said the fact he and Andrea rode together was simply coincidence.
Meanwhile, unnoticed, Dani Pedrosa decided to do just two runs, so he waited for the rest to rush out then headed on to an empty track and smashed the pole record on his first run.
Not that too many people noticed. The Marquez-Rossi feud drew all the attention. Valentino does not think he will become champion tomorrow but he did say that he hopes each rider runs 'his own race.' He placed a lot of emphasis on the words 'his own.' Then did it again to make sure we'd got the point.
ENDS
by julian ryder on the ground at sepang
Saturday, October 24, 2015
I'm not sure how many Valentino Rossis there are at Sepang this weekend, but I've seen at least two. First, the tightly wound guy who looked pretty old and drawn firing off conspiracy theories. He was here Thursday and Friday.
Today another one turned up. He looks about 25 years old and was stood grinning beside the two Repsol Honda riders in parc ferme after qualifying. This Valentino Rossi had just qualified third, knocking his championship rival Jorge Lorenzo off the front row and coming out with a fizzer of a one-liner: 'I remember I can be fast in the dry...'
This is the championship that just keeps giving, especially in qualifying. Dani Pedrosa dismantled the record lap, Marc Marquez made an impossible front-end save at the expense of putting a hole in the arm of his leathers, and Valentino version 10.2.1 magicked up stunning last sector of his last lap to get on the front row for only the sixth time this year. That put Jorge on the second row, but embarrassingly he didn't know and cut his engine to coast into parc ferme only to be turned away. Whoops.
The fallout from Rossi version 9.8.6's Thursday outburst continued. The fact that Lorenzo followed Marquez early in qualifying drew questions, as did Rossi following Ianonne. Marc said yes, Jorge had indeed followed him—along with Ianonne and a few others, and he couldn't slow down because he was on a three-run strategy and would have wasted a tyre. Anyway, said Marc, I knew I would go faster later. Similarly, Rossi said the fact he and Andrea rode together was simply coincidence.
Meanwhile, unnoticed, Dani Pedrosa decided to do just two runs, so he waited for the rest to rush out then headed on to an empty track and smashed the pole record on his first run.
Not that too many people noticed. The Marquez-Rossi feud drew all the attention. Valentino does not think he will become champion tomorrow but he did say that he hopes each rider runs 'his own race.' He placed a lot of emphasis on the words 'his own.' Then did it again to make sure we'd got the point.
ENDS
LOL and WTF !!
THIS WONT WASH OUT !!
THIS WONT WASH OUT !!
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MotoGP Malaysia: Rossi: 'I did not kick Marquez off'
25 October 2015
“I don't want to make Marquez crash and I don't kick him" - Valentino Rossi.
MotoGP Malaysia: Rossi: 'I did not kick Marquez off'
Valentino Rossi has denied kicking out at Marc Marquez, causing the Spaniard to fall during their intense Sepang MotoGP battle.
The Malaysian weekend began with Rossi accusing Marquez of helping title rival Jorge Lorenzo at Phillip Island - and ended with the Honda rider sprawled on the ground after the pair clashed while fighting furiously over third place, on lap 7 of 20.
Rossi claimed that Marquez had been deliberately holding him up - mirroring his Phillip Island accusations - but this time Rossi responded by trying to block pass the Spaniard.
The Doctor declared that he wanted to deliberately force Marquez wide, in order to try and breakaway from the #93 after countless passes between the pair. But instead Rossi's leg made contact with Marquez's handlebar, dumping the double world champion on the ground.
“I don't want to make Marquez crash and I don't kick him," Rossi declared. "If you look at the images, as I did in Race Direction, frame-by-frame and you see from the helicopter. The helicopter is where you see it more because from the side it looks like I gave him a kick.
“From the helicopter if you see, in slow motion, it is quite clear that I go wide. I don't want to say I do the normal corner - I wanted to go to him, slow down and make him lose time. Because it is the only thing that I can do, because in every braking he overtake me, slow down a lot in the corners and for me he didn't open the throttle on the straights.
“When I slow down, slow down, slow down and I go to cut his line, we touch. He touched me with the handlebar on my left leg and it is for that reason he crashed, because he opened the handlebar on my leg and he crashed.
“But if you go slow, you see frame-by-frame that when I lose the foot on the footpeg Marquez is already down, he has already crashed. First of all, if I want to kick him, I can kick him also 20-30 metres before because we were already close. But especially if you give a kick to a MotoGP rider he don't crash, because the bike is heavy, has a lot of grip.
“He just touched my leg with the handlebar and he crashed. So I'm very disappointed for the three penalty points.”
Quizzed on why he looked across twice at Marquez just before the contact, Rossi replied:
“I looked at Marquez five or six times on the first laps. I look at him to say 'what you f**king doing? Why you do this another time?'”
Rossi was handed three penalty points for the contact, which Race Direction accepted was not deliberate. Because Rossi already has one penalty point from Misano, it means he will start the Valencia title showdown with Lorenzo from last place on the grid.
Lorenzo finished second in the race, cutting Rossi's championship lead to seven points.
by Peter McLaren
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MotoGP Malaysia: Marquez: Rossi is out of control
25 October 2015
'It doesn't matter if you are Valentino or another rider, [in] this type of incident you are out of control' - Marc Marquez.
MotoGP Malaysia: Marquez: Rossi is out of control
Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez says Valentino Rossi 'lost control' in the heat of the MotoGP world title race after tension between the pair appeared to boil over at Sepang.
Rossi was unable to shake off Marquez in his efforts to chase after key title rival Jorge Lorenzo as he disputed third place with the outgoing world champion.
Following after a series of frantic overtakes between laps four and seven, the Italian forced Marquez wide before appearing to lash out at the Spaniard's Honda with his left leg, causing him to crash out of the race.
The unsavoury incident came after Rossi had accused Marquez of favouring Lorenzo for the title in Thursday's pre-race press conference in Malaysia, claiming he 'helped' Lorenzo at Phillip Island.
Race Direction imposed three penalty points on Rossi and the Movistar Yamaha rider will start the final race at Valencia in Spain on November 8 from the back of the grid after accumulating a total of four penalty points [one point incurred at Misano].
Rossi did not have any championship points deducted and still holds an advantage of seven points at the top over Lorenzo.
“I don't know the reality or reason of Valentino's team because in Australia I pushed really hard and I won the race, so I don't know what they want,” said Marquez, who passed Lorenzo at Phillip Island on the final lap to win the race.
“Here, I tried to push in the beginning and I did [2m] '00 on the second lap. When he [Rossi] overtake me the first time, I tried to follow him but then I saw I can be faster and then I tried to do my race.
“Of course, I tried to overtake him to try to push and open some gap between me and him. Valentino was disturbing me and I was disturbing Valentino because we couldn't find the best pace,” Marquez added.
“When Valentino was in front he was not very fast and after this incident, his lap time was 1m-high, 2m-low and I thought that I was able to ride even faster.”
Analysing the shocking lap seven drama that brought Marquez's race to a shocking end, he added: “You can see easily on the TV that I go in, I heard that the Yamaha was coming, I shut [the throttle] a little bit and he stayed completely straight [on] the bike and he looked at me two times and I was [thinking] 'what's happening, what do I need to do', and I stayed there.
“I didn't expect that he would take off the leg and push my handlebars and my front brake. Then I lost the front and when I was in the floor I saw him look behind again.
“For me, it doesn't matter if you are Valentino or another rider, [in] this type of incident you are out of control. When you are a rider you know what is going on – to take off a leg and push another rider out, it is difficult how you can think this on the bike.”
Marquez, giving a press briefing in the Repsol Honda hospitality on Sunday evening, said the seemingly personal battle between himself and Rossi 'cannot go any further'.
“I don't want to be involved in the middle of this but what I know is that I was out of the race and he was still riding; I get zero points, he gets 16. For me, the penalty is there and strange decision,” said Marquez.
“Of course, what happened on Thursday was surprising for everybody, but I forget and I did my weekend. All the eyes were looking at me and Valentino and I got out in the race to try to do my race and I was pushing, trying to follow Jorge, but then we started to battle and I say, 'I will follow him to see how is the rhythm', and I saw that I was pushing him.
“When Jorge passed me I was not able to follow and also I was not able to follow Dani [Pedrosa]. I saw that Jorge had opened a little bit of a gap and I said, 'I will try to overtake him [Rossi] to try to push', but then when I overtake him we start many overtakes since we arrive in the moment [of the crash],” the 22-year-old added.
“I think this battle can not go more far because to arrive at the point when another rider kicks with the leg, we cannot arrive more far. I will try for next year and in Valencia to make a good set-up, a good bike and try to do a different type of race.”
Repsol Honda team principal Livio Suppo added: “What happened today is something we never want to see in racing, as it is unacceptable that a rider would intentionally create a dangerous situation causing the crash of another rider.
“We love motorsport and we like to see riders competing for victory, but there must be a limit and mutual respect of each other.”
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