Elias the new Schwantz?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CaptainSnow @ Oct 25 2006, 04:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Making a plug:

Wait til Hopper gets a good bike under him, then you will be making new Schwantz comaparisons for a damn good reason!

I like your unconditional support for Hopper. He has been a joy to watch at Laguna. But I'm afraid he has a cloud of bad luck. He reminds me of the greatest potential on two wheels, that is Travis Pastrana. But they both push beyond the limits of body and machine which gets them into trouble.

yes, he puhes it.
if being on the suzuki has taught him anything it is to push the bike as far as you can and always get yourselkf to another level.
if he was to take that hard charging style to a better bike then all hell would break lose and he would either be almighty fast or crash like stoner

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CaptainSnow @ Oct 25 2006, 04:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Wait til Hopper gets a good bike under him, then you will be making new Schwantz comaparisons for a damn good reason!

I'm hoping that when the day comes, Hopper is still on the Suzuki. I'd hate for him to get success on a Honda. It seems anyone from another bike who jumps on a Honda seems to improve from their prior season. I think it would do much discredit to Hopkins as a rider if he has to go to Honda to be successful. I like Hopper and I love Suzuki, I hope they can do it together.

Supposedly they got a real bad bike cooking over in Japan. The 800cc is supposed to be damn good. but then again, all manufacturers are saying that!

It would be nice if he did it on the brand he has ridden for most of his life. (I said MOST, for you nit-pickers.) The boy can ride. He can win races, he just needs the bike to get him there. The 80% rider is all there, sometimes even more, its the 20% bike thats slacking!

EDIT: That doesn't just apply to Hopper. It applies to all recent Suzuki riders. KRJR, he had a few good runs. As well as Vermeullen, he would have finished on podium if not won the USGP this year.

Also, for people outside of Suzuki, NAKANO! That guy is a demon on a bike and very often rides under the radar.

CaptainSnow, I seem to remember, several years ago, a young rider winning a race at Loudon. The rider was slowly rolling into turn one, celebrating, when he fell! Was that Hopkins?

I believe it was a red, white, and blue bike (valvoline EMGO?).

I'm not trying to diss Hopper, just a funny memory and was wondering if that was indeed him.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gx6rdr @ Oct 26 2006, 02:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'm hoping that when the day comes, Hopper is still on the Suzuki. I'd hate for him to get success on a Honda. It seems anyone from another bike who jumps on a Honda seems to improve from their prior season. I think it would do much discredit to Hopkins as a rider if he has to go to Honda to be successful. I like Hopper and I love SuzukiIt seems anyone with any talent that rides the Suzuki.....


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CaptainSnow @ Oct 26 2006, 02:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Supposedly they got a real bad bike cooking over in Japan. The 800cc is supposed to be damn good. but then again, all manufacturers are saying that!

It would be nice if he did it on the brand he has ridden for most of his life. (I said MOST, for you nit-pickers.) The boy can ride. He can win races, he just needs the bike to get him there. The 80% rider is all there, sometimes even more, its the 20% bike thats slacking!Are you guys nuts? You two have some of that Suzuki 'bad hoodoo' workin. They've been sayin how hot the new bike is gonna be every year since motogp started and every year they've been talkin out their ...... It's a tradgey that KRJR stayed so long and it's a tradgedy that CV and Hopper aren't on something better.

i know it hasn't improved in the broad spectrum of things, and maybe its my bias view coz Vermeuelen's on the thing, but isn't this years Suzuki better than the last? ... obviously still not as reliablely good as the Honda, but for a Suzuki, it seemed a fairly significant change?????????

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (teomolca @ Oct 18 2006, 11:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Nah, Elías is much crazier than Melandri!

I remember a 125cc race where Lorenzo and Elías were fighting for the win. They were sliding (125's !!!) and banging into each other, the guy in third position didn't dare to get close!
Maybe Elias is crazier, but Melandri races weird, too many mistakes and unpredictable lines.

What was that race at Jerez were someone pulled Elias's brake lever and took over the position on the last corner. That was some crazy ish.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Electric Mofo @ Oct 26 2006, 11:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>What was that race at Jerez were someone pulled Elias's brake lever and took over the position on the last corner. That was some crazy ish.
Really? I don't remember that! He could have killed him! The bd! I bet it was Lorenzo.

The Zook is getting better, but, like the Kawa (Up until this year when they went backwards) the improvements are not coming big or fast enough to keep up with Honda, Yamaha and Ducati, let alone catch up to them. There's always hope with the new 800, no one knows hows the new bikes will shape up against each other. But, like Skid said, Suzuki's MotoGP project has always been better at making hot air than fast, reliable race bikes. Hopper and Vermulen both deserve better, but if Suzuki MotoGP has one talent it's sweet talking riders into beliving they're on the brink of somthing big.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gx6rdr @ Oct 26 2006, 12:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>It seems anyone from another bike who jumps on a Honda seems to improve from their prior season.

One way of looking at it is Vermulen came in 11th last year on a Pons Honda at PI, and this year he made the podium on the GSV. Of course, there's more to it than that, but it makes Honda look bad, dosen't it?

I guess for Suzuki, it's the difference between GP bikes and Superbikes. I mean, they're not doing all that bad in any of the Superbike series around the world.

As far as MotoGP, they've had good riders. Like everyone is saying, they just haven't provided a good enough bike for these riders. Nevertheless, I'm with Captain Snow...GO HOPPER, VERMEULEN, AND SUZUKI!!!!