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Damian cudlin to replace capirossi

To give an idea - he is kinda excited (a tweet or two below)



Just landed in Japan. Now being escorted to the track on a Ducati Bus. Valentino Rossi is sitting right behind me. Im trying to act cool...









Still on the bus and still haven't got enough courage to ask Rossi for a photo. I'm also busting to fart. Wonder if he'd notice? Decisions.
 
To give an idea - he is kinda excited (a tweet or two below)



Just landed in Japan. Now being escorted to the track on a Ducati Bus. Valentino Rossi is sitting right behind me. Im trying to act cool...









Still on the bus and still haven't got enough courage to ask Rossi for a photo. I'm also busting to fart. Wonder if he'd notice? Decisions.



Thanks for those pearls of wisdom Gaz
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......sounds like a funny guy.
 
it was a rhetorical question ......, i can use the googles to ... as far as big talk big words but no real show bring your ... to the Austin race 2013
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Oh STFU Curve!! I was just looking for an oportunity to run my "cuddlin" gag!
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....... and you were the doormat ..... get over it
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So this is the bet - he qualifies last and either finishes last or has a DNF (no order - i.e. he doesn't have to be the first DNF). Ben Bostrum also looked good but this level is different.



I hope you win the bet, I think Cuddo is great.



The bet (long term payment) is lunch when I'm back on a bike at the Bearded Dragon Tavern (Mt Tamborine Rd). You as a Gold Coaster are only a stones throw from me at Murwillumbah and I guarantee we have ridden many of the same roads.



You on?



These are not real places. ......' Ozzies just makin' this .... up to mess with our heads.
 
These are not real places. ......' Ozzies just makin' this .... up to mess with our heads.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murwillumbah,_New_South_Wales



It's real - just having a bunt of a time putting a sound track to my Burringbar vid before I YouTube it and post it.



If y'all ever get out here there is a spare bed (or many) here.



It has some of the best mountain roads in the country



Johnny forgot to ask God where the best riding was instead God temporised on ....... Yoghurt (which in Australia is in its own special supermarket aisle called "girl food") before God made mention he was going to have a burn later through the Numinbah Valley and then over Burringbar Range.



He was then going to offend all vegetarians by having a steak at the Bearded Dragon.



God has no problems with this because he deliberately made cows and stuff from meat, obviously he wanted us to eat them.



He also knows about hard to spell Aboriginal names that actually mean "great place for a larrup on your Honda" but the local tribes know that if they tell the National Parks mob about this it might lose its world heritage listing and become a theme park, thus inviting invasion from camera wielding asian hordes, loud Americans, tomato red sunburned poms whose shirts are covered in melted ice cream (it liquefied while they were whining about the mosquitoes) and Germanic types wearing socks and sandals who overheat, smell of BO and are far too friendly to your wife.



Thus we hide behind difficult names, deadly snakes and spiders (who are all tame and nearly extinct anyway) and keep it all to ourselves.



All the beaches are nice too.
 
These are not real places. ......' Ozzies just makin' this .... up to mess with our heads.



The rules for naming a place in Australia are quite simple....state the bleedin obvious



ie One tree hill, Sandy Creek (there are about 80 in Australia apparently), Riverton, Stony Desert etc etc



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Use a traditional aboriginal name that no one can pronounce.....I assume this one fits the latter category
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I'd live in Mullumbimby just to be able to say it at least once a day.





You're after the Mullumbimby Madness Barry - Where God grows his hooch before ....... off to some Yoghurt shop in the U.S of A to chat with Johnny and lie about himself being clean. Him and that ape have been smokin the wacky backy! Eating Yoghurt with the munchies.
 
Love to see Suzuki get a podium before the end of the year and I really hope Hopper has better luck in his next race...you can tell he wants to make up for past indiscretions and he is definitely worthy of another chance in the big league - you dont know what you got until its gone and thats a lesson he has learnt the hard way.
 
Big thumbs up to Cudlin. He has improved his time by nearly 5 seconds over the course of the weekend! He might not even come last thanks to the japanese ring ins
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Good work mate!
 
I find it interesting that people like to bash Japanese test riders/backmarkers, but cheer on backmarkers of other nationalities.
 
I find it interesting that people like to bash Japanese test riders/backmarkers, but cheer on backmarkers of other nationalities.



What?



Anyway, good to Cudlin for not qualling last. Tall order to ride a bike uve never ridden at place uve never been. Btw, yo Japanese test rider, u suck. (Happy Eltoro?)
 
What?



Anyway, good to Cudlin for not qualling last. Tall order to ride a bike uve never ridden at place uve never been. Btw, yo Japanese test rider, u suck. (Happy Eltoro?)



I'm just saying that people like to bash test riders/backmarkers particularly of Japaneses descent (I'm not saying it's members of this particular forum, but I see it elsewhere), but cheer on ones from their own countries (non-Japanese). I don't see why one type of backmarker gets ridiculed and others don't.