Ducati 2013, Audi is all in.

BarryMachine said:

Up to you how things go in the future, but I have decided that if you "troll" me you shall be treated in the same manner.

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Which means, or else you repeatedly post a picture of a rear wheel bicycle skid? i'm quaking in my boots Barry. All the thousands of images that you've downloaded to your hard drive to satisfy your fetish and you resort to the same one of a bicycle?



Then might I suggest in the first instance you keep your depraved bestial preferences to yourself as opposed to broadcasting them on a motorcycle racing forum.

BarryMachine said:

Up to you how things go in the future, but I have decided that if you "troll" me you shall be treated in the same manner.

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Oooh, scary. What you got up your sleeve Bestibarry? Perhaps a Troy Corser, "your gay" pic? Oh, I know, another google pic of you backing it in? Hahaha. Carry on.

GeePee said:

I really hope Vale stays with Ducati. They're are a good match.



Would love to see Hayden go to WSBK with Ducati & win a title.



Hard to believe the Ducati WSBK & MotoGP teams come from the same company. One has a great winning history the other is a joke.

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You know what, .... Ducati if they cut Hayden loose. I would love to see him BEAT Ducati on any other bike on the grid. Maybe Yamaha could get back in and supply him.

BarryMachine said:

I have actually had it backed in Pete, " geez its stable" whilst doing so on one occasion, was my impression, along with "bet that looked good!"

I was rushing for a set of lights at a fairly populated intersection here, even off-direction for me ....... luckily no photo I say!! ( Red light cameras )



Its a commuter bike Pete ........ you did read that?

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It seems that Hyosung is supplying the Police with the Hyo as it backs in so well Pete ..... just found some new examples for you ..........













ok its Josh borne's new creation ... a Hyo-slider!!







Should try that in hillclimb!!

povol said:

You know what, .... Ducati if they cut Hayden loose. I would love to see him BEAT Ducati on any other bike on the grid. Maybe Yamaha could get back in and supply him.

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How about Crutchlow goes to Ducati and Hayden takes a Yamaha ....... would be a double reference for Ducati to see realistically where they are at? With all the "airy fairy" development miring crap going on with Rossi they need a real and new reference I say, and that would be perfect .......... Dorna could back that too to help Ducati out.

Personally I think that either [font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Preziosi isn't listening to Rossi and Burgess or he is and he has no idea how to fix the issues he is being told about. Either way isn't good for Rossi so if [/font][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Preziosi stays then Rossi is better off leaving.[/font]

michaelm said:

The problem obviously was the power delivery which made the bike unrideable, but I had some idea (from a magazine article) that it was a (not well)adapted car engine rather than a development of an aprilia bike engine by cosworth.



Nothing against aprilia, would like to see them on an equal footing with the other manufacturers in some future premier class formula, hopefully along with BMW and Suzuki as well.

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Yep, totally power-focused. It delivered it all within around 1500rpm and hit like a wall. It wasn't so much that Cosworth were 'car guys' as they were trying to fit F1 technology into GP without taking into account how the rider used the throttle. They were looking at torque curves and corner position and top speeds, rather than the rider going sideways down the straight



The engine itself was a 100% in-house Aprilia-designed block with pneumatic valves and electronics from Cosworth. It had some pretty cool trickery for the time, like anti-stall and variable torque curves programmed into the (HUGE) ECU. Exactly the state-of-the-art that F1 was doing.



I think the article in question was in GP Week, IIRC.