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« Reply #25 on: October 08, 2008, 07:11:50 pm » |
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Reason# 564 why I love to hate Honda.
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« Reply #26 on: October 08, 2008, 09:50:25 pm » |
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Reason# 564 why I love to hate Honda.
LOL! For me, reason #4 why I'll go back to rooting against Honda. 1. Let Vale walk. All over not giving him his championship bike... like you said you would.  2. Give Nicky wet noodle support during his Champeenship run, while coddling "the next big star" 3. Treat Nicky like crap his whole tenure with the team 4. Let Nicky walk while kow-towing to Pedrobot and Puig's every demand as if they sh!t gilded turds. I, for one, will be most happy if Dani Pedrosa becomes (in one sense) the Randy Mamola of the current generation. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. Get used to that big "2" on your bike, little fella. Tom P.S. Hey Dani, I hear the tires don't grip so good in the first lap. Of course, a *really* good rider would already know that. |
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« Reply #27 on: October 09, 2008, 06:13:02 am » |
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Major sponsors are hard to come by in MotoGP, and will be even harder to find in the near future. Honda has been nuturing this relationship with Repsol for a long time, and I'm sure they would like it to continue. A bit of give and take between Honda and Repsol should be expected, with Repsol's influence more pronounced as the financial situation in MotoGP has deteriorated in the last few years.
Kinda makes me long for the old Rothmans Honda and Marlboro Yamaha cigarette wars again. |
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« Reply #28 on: October 09, 2008, 08:22:57 am » |
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Dog -- you're absolutely right --
and it's just ONE of the reasons the Flattrack is so much fun -- just racing, very little Prima Donna-esque BS
If ANY GP race was a close as a standard issue Mile, Short Track, or TT, the motopress would leave puddles on the floor
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« Reply #29 on: October 09, 2008, 08:53:37 am » |
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Dog -- you're absolutely right --
and it's just ONE of the reasons the Flattrack is so much fun -- just racing, very little Prima Donna-esque BS
If ANY GP race was a close as a standard issue Mile, Short Track, or TT, the motopress would leave puddles on the floor
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« Reply #30 on: October 10, 2008, 04:58:49 am » |
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I sure hope so because Nicky is so much fun to root for. But I get a little worried when I see how every-Ducati-rider-except-Stoner performed this year. I mean, Melandri was competitive on a Honda too. I think we'll learn a lot about both Nicky and Stoner next year.
Back on topic: Don't need to learn more about Puig. Dirtbag.
With Nicky's flat track background, I think he will do well on the Duc. Stoner also grew up riding dirt. I think Melandri has always been a road racer. No, I'm wrong. Melandri did some moto cross when he was young.  I stand by my theory anyway.  |
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« Reply #31 on: October 10, 2008, 01:13:25 pm » |
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Soup put up a nice article that basically refutes everything that Puig claimed about Nicky. Its a good read.
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« Reply #32 on: October 10, 2008, 03:34:14 pm » |
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« Reply #33 on: October 10, 2008, 03:44:17 pm » |
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« Reply #34 on: October 10, 2008, 04:46:36 pm » |
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« Reply #35 on: October 10, 2008, 07:26:43 pm » |
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« Reply #36 on: October 10, 2008, 07:47:07 pm » |
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« Reply #37 on: October 10, 2008, 08:10:58 pm » |
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Alberto Spooge is a complete wanker.
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« Reply #38 on: October 11, 2008, 08:20:16 pm » |
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I didn't boo Pedrobot at Indy this year, seamed up sportsman like. But next year, I'm joining the boo crowd. I might even print up a T-shirt "Anybody but Pedrosa"
Where can I buy 1 of these????????????????????????????????????? |
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« Reply #39 on: October 11, 2008, 08:29:28 pm » |
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Yeah, cause one of the heaviest guys on the track is using Thumbelina's suspension settings.  |
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« Reply #40 on: October 12, 2008, 03:53:13 pm » |
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« Reply #41 on: October 12, 2008, 04:02:44 pm » |
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I hope Dani finishes well next season.. somewhere in top 10 right after Stoner, Vale, Hayden, Jorge, Edwards..
I hope Repsol will never win another championship, and to hell with HRC and the 800cc GP bike they've designed and what they let Puig/Pedrosa get away with: I will not buy a Honda bike not until those two around.
I am going to write a letter to Honda, explaining why I will not buy another Honda bike, there probably enough people who feel the same way let them count how much business they've lost.
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« Reply #42 on: October 12, 2008, 05:47:14 pm » |
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I hope Dani finishes well next season.. somewhere in top 10 right after Stoner, Vale, Hayden, Jorge, Edwards..
I hope Repsol will never win another championship, and to hell with HRC and the 800cc GP bike they've designed and what they let Puig/Pedrosa get away with: I will not buy a Honda bike not until those two around.
I am going to write a letter to Honda, explaining why I will not buy another Honda bike, there probably enough people who feel the same way let them count how much business they've lost.
There will probably be enough bike mad Spaniards around buying Hondas because of Pedrosa that your letter won't make a bit of difference to them. Jeff |
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« Reply #43 on: October 12, 2008, 06:52:44 pm » |
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Hmmmmmmmmm..............former world champion Nicky Hayden.Race winner Alberto Puig.
I can see the difference.And Nicky's career is far from over.
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« Reply #44 on: October 12, 2008, 07:35:56 pm » |
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There will probably be enough bike mad Spaniards around buying Hondas because of Pedrosa that your letter won't make a bit of difference to them.
Jeff
Every Repsol gas station mini mart in Spain has Pedrosa stuff for sale. Hayden stuff? Not so much. |
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« Reply #45 on: October 12, 2008, 07:43:00 pm » |
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There will probably be enough bike mad Spaniards around buying Hondas because of Pedrosa that your letter won't make a bit of difference to them.
Spain? gimme a break there are more people live in California.. some sh!ty 3rd world country, yeah I've been there. |
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« Reply #46 on: October 12, 2008, 08:18:40 pm » |
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Spain? gimme a break there are more people live in California.. some sh!ty 3rd world country, yeah I've been there.
Its not the size of the American consumer market that drives Honda to support a Spanish rider in MotoGP, it's the size of the MotoGP audience. There aren't many people here who have even heard of the sport in this country, and fewer still that can name more than two riders, and a minuscule portion that are even aware of the shenanigans between HRC and Hayden. The fact is that the decision helps them in Spain and has virtually no impact on the American market. |
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« Reply #47 on: October 13, 2008, 11:21:31 am » |
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Si'
I got the same 3rd world country experience in some remote places upstate NY... |
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« Reply #48 on: October 14, 2008, 07:04:46 am » |
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There will probably be enough bike mad Spaniards around buying Hondas because of Pedrosa that your letter won't make a bit of difference to them.
Jeff
That might've been true up until Lorenzo showed up. Now the Spaniards have someone to root for who actually has a personality and some human-seeming talent. Heck, on the TV broadcast from Jerez it really seemed that Checa (a long-time crowd pleaser) was getting more cheers than Pedrobot was. Sure the Spanish are nationalistic. Same as Americans - and look how quickly we forgot about KRJR as soon as Nicky came onto the horizon. Couldn't even put Junior on the T-shirts when MotoGP returned to Laguna. I'm still perturbed about that... but the point being that Junior actually won the world championship, and we forgot about him anyway. See how quickly the Spanish forget about Pedrosa. |
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« Reply #49 on: October 14, 2008, 07:28:53 am » |
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Sure the Spanish are nationalistic. Same as Americans - and look how quickly we forgot about KRJR as soon as Nicky came onto the horizon. Couldn't even put Junior on the T-shirts when MotoGP returned to Laguna. I'm still perturbed about that... but the point being that Junior actually won the world championship, and we forgot about him anyway. See how quickly the Spanish forget about Pedrosa.
I think the thing with KRJR vs Nicky was Nicky has a very approachable, down to earth, likable personality. KRJR seems rather distant. Nicky is the guy everyone likes, while KRJR... no one knew him. |
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