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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Jun 13 2008, 03:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Do you remember the end of 2005 when Honda gave Nicky and Melandri the new 2006 spec bike with the high crank V-5. That bike was pretty good.
Too bad they played politics, they probably could have swept the top 5 in 2006.
QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ May 20 2008, 11:25 AM)
On the standard issue '06 bike crank was indeed raised and the engine was shorter overall, reverting the longer swingarm (similar to the M1), that had been rejected the year before by Biaggi and Gibernau. I think they pissed about with the balance/mass of the bike to quicken its steering like the Yam, but ended up initially jeopardizing much of the bikes strengths that Nicky had by then been exploiting so deftly.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ May 20 2008, 08:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Yes, thank you.
They lengthened the swing arm and that's why they had to send some internal parts to the bikes extremities. Now I remember.
...No Lex, I remembered it for you..remember?
Too bad they played politics, they probably could have swept the top 5 in 2006.
QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ May 20 2008, 11:25 AM)
On the standard issue '06 bike crank was indeed raised and the engine was shorter overall, reverting the longer swingarm (similar to the M1), that had been rejected the year before by Biaggi and Gibernau. I think they pissed about with the balance/mass of the bike to quicken its steering like the Yam, but ended up initially jeopardizing much of the bikes strengths that Nicky had by then been exploiting so deftly.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ May 20 2008, 08:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Yes, thank you.
They lengthened the swing arm and that's why they had to send some internal parts to the bikes extremities. Now I remember.
...No Lex, I remembered it for you..remember?
