nogear

I don't know why but I've never liked any Spanish or French riders, especially the French riders....  It has always seemed to me that the French and Japanese riders are always complaining about other riders touching them (like little kids do).  The Brits, Italians, and Aussie, excluding Stoner, on the other hand are always mixing it up and bumping. They realize that they are racing and in racing you are going to have some incidental contact. It's part of the sport.

In the past I liked MotoGP because of the raw power of the bikes compared to SKB or AMA but in the past 10 years that has slowly changed. The advances in electronic controls have made the bikes more rideable and tamer.  They are still more advanced than bikes competing in SBK but with greater parity of the bikes in SBK and AMA I believe that winning is more dependent on the the riding ability of the rider instead of who has the best bike.  Look at how the championships in MotoGP have gone for the past 12 years. Sure the ride has counted but it has been clear each year which bikes are the most dominate. First Honda had a string of 1,2,3 bikes then it switched over to Yamaha claiming the most wins for a few seasons. Now that pendulum has swung back to Honda.

JukeBoxHero, on 21 May 2012 - 10:54 PM, said:

I don't know. I might be a good buy now for a short term investment. Buy low, ride the points higher, then dump it and pay your capital gains taxes.

Stoner won on the old bike. The bike for 2010 was a completely new bike. He crashed out of the first 3 races on that bike.  After two years trying to develop that bike Ducati gave up and introduced another new bike this year.

I've always thought that Ducati cares more about SBK than MotoGp because the SBK championships on actual bikes they sell is what built up their name in the first place.   I used to love watching Bayliss and Fogarty.  Fogarty especially was the working mans rider.

Well hello GPtuner! Yes I this is the same NoGear from Assfault junkies.  Word of advice, please don't use big words on here (superfluous).  Most people on here will have to look that up......  ( I used Webster's Dictionary! )