Joined Mar 2015
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Chertsey, Surrey, UK
Have you ever considered that others might consider the crap you post being relevant?
Because I can't see it being relevant to the subject.
Joined Aug 2007
11K Posts | 3K+
Pomona NY
Like a broken record. Just repeated noise. No intelligent process at all. Just noise coming out of a word hole.
Joined Jan 2016
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Uk
Joined Aug 2007
11K Posts | 3K+
Pomona NY
Hell... I know people who are ........ - but are likeable anyhow. It's rare to come across someone so willfully and defiantly ignorant and sociopathically indifferent to the truth. In other words - your run-of-the-mill bopper.
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Joined Jun 2007
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Norah Head
I dont know ..... this guy is something diferent
. He's clearly one of the most brilliant young people ever to live .... he says so himself.
We just arent clever enough to see it ...... he's got me there.
He sees facts nobody else understands. I certainly cant see where he gets his facts from.
I'm quaking in my boots at his every remark. He's giving me my comeupance ....
Have any of the boppers before him ever been like that?
Talps, Dani, vudu ?
Oh wait ...... he could be just any old bopper.
Lets just hope he doesnt shut down our local tv network like talps was going to. Lololol.
Of course he is the GOAT, even Marquez and Stoner admitted that and they do NOT like Rossi at all.
He's 39 and a championship contender for 2018, he won races last year at 38. He's the heaviest and tallest rider (big disadvantage) bar 1 other rider who isn't a championship contender ... he's had to live with that height/weight penalty his entire career and still kept winning races and championships. If you haven't met Rossi in person, then I highly recommend you do (pit pass or whatever gets you close to him), you'll see just how tall he is relative to the other riders, it's a drastic difference.
But most importantly, Rossi knows it's a team effort and that's what wins championships, the team, not the rider.
Look at Lorenzo, he'll never win another Championship, not because of lack of talent, but because of lack of being able to work with his team.
Marquez is very successful due how well he works with his team. Dovi is successful because of how well he has worked with his team.
It always will be and always has been a "Team" effort ... Rossi doesn't look for records, he races for the love of it ... he's happiest after a good close race for podium.
I was surprised that Yamaha were as close as they were in Qatar (during winter testing they had pretty bad race pace relatively speaking) and they seem to have found some straight line speed, not as good as Ducati but maybe enough to hang with the Hondas.
With all that said, I don't think Yamaha will win a riders or manufacturers championship this year unless they find something magical ... maybe a race or two here and there, but not enough for a championship. I think 2018 Championship will be Dovi's to lose, he just needs to stay healthy and it's his for the taking as he clearly knows how to manage Marquez who uses the same old desperate moves that are becoming very predictable.
BTW, if you go to MotoGP.com Vali is almost always mentioned 2X more than any other rider ... it should be pretty obvious he IS THE GOAT.
Cheers, Rob.
He's 39 and a championship contender for 2018, he won races last year at 38. He's the heaviest and tallest rider (big disadvantage) bar 1 other rider who isn't a championship contender ... he's had to live with that height/weight penalty his entire career and still kept winning races and championships. If you haven't met Rossi in person, then I highly recommend you do (pit pass or whatever gets you close to him), you'll see just how tall he is relative to the other riders, it's a drastic difference.
But most importantly, Rossi knows it's a team effort and that's what wins championships, the team, not the rider.
Look at Lorenzo, he'll never win another Championship, not because of lack of talent, but because of lack of being able to work with his team.
Marquez is very successful due how well he works with his team. Dovi is successful because of how well he has worked with his team.
It always will be and always has been a "Team" effort ... Rossi doesn't look for records, he races for the love of it ... he's happiest after a good close race for podium.
I was surprised that Yamaha were as close as they were in Qatar (during winter testing they had pretty bad race pace relatively speaking) and they seem to have found some straight line speed, not as good as Ducati but maybe enough to hang with the Hondas.
With all that said, I don't think Yamaha will win a riders or manufacturers championship this year unless they find something magical ... maybe a race or two here and there, but not enough for a championship. I think 2018 Championship will be Dovi's to lose, he just needs to stay healthy and it's his for the taking as he clearly knows how to manage Marquez who uses the same old desperate moves that are becoming very predictable.
BTW, if you go to MotoGP.com Vali is almost always mentioned 2X more than any other rider ... it should be pretty obvious he IS THE GOAT.
Cheers, Rob.
He's mentioned twice as much because they think they will make more money if they do that. That's all.
There is no greatest of all time. The most anyone can attain is 'greatest of their time' and then everyone can argue what 'their time' was.
Was he the greatest of his time? Maybe.
I wasn't paying attention untill 2011.
He certainly wasn't the greatest of that time or since.
I don't care who did what before 'my time'. What's with this worship crap? Too harsh?
I'm a fan of who's impressing me now. Marquez impresses me constantly. Rossi, sometimes.
Asparagus? Never. Lorenzo? Not really. Dovi? Starting to.
I bought a Ducati hat at Indy in 2011. Rossi was one of the fastest then. You wouldn't know it from the timesheets but you could tell trackside. Also he tumbled thru the infield the fastest when he wiped out. Haha
I bought the hat because I thought Ducati was cool. It's in the garage somewhere.
There is no greatest of all time. The most anyone can attain is 'greatest of their time' and then everyone can argue what 'their time' was.
Was he the greatest of his time? Maybe.
I wasn't paying attention untill 2011.
He certainly wasn't the greatest of that time or since.
I don't care who did what before 'my time'. What's with this worship crap? Too harsh?
I'm a fan of who's impressing me now. Marquez impresses me constantly. Rossi, sometimes.
Asparagus? Never. Lorenzo? Not really. Dovi? Starting to.
I bought a Ducati hat at Indy in 2011. Rossi was one of the fastest then. You wouldn't know it from the timesheets but you could tell trackside. Also he tumbled thru the infield the fastest when he wiped out. Haha
I bought the hat because I thought Ducati was cool. It's in the garage somewhere.
Joined Feb 2018
681 Posts | 535+
Italy
He is one of the greats, and the greatest of his time at his peak, which is all anyone can be as you say.
I think the Ducati adventure, pig though the bike was when he was there (hubris and nemesis perhaps), put paid to him being on a tier above the other greats, particularly Hailwood, who apparently could ride anything.
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You mean when Max was right on the inside edge of the track with a wall of bikes outside him?.
The .... where you watching?
Do you see the elbow now?
Max himself admitted years later that he had done some questionable thing a during the peak of that rivalry (As has Rossi). I guess that’s not good enough for you.
No, I mildly enjoy answering you in kind.
I bought the anti- Biaggi and anti- Gibernau agendas at the time, particularly with Max given his contretemps with Doohan of whom I was a major fan. In retrospect they were early victims of the Rossi cult of personality.
I take it as your way of saying “I quoted a days old post in my attempt to sound smart without knowing fuckall about what I was saying, got put in my place and is too proud to admit it”.
Joined Jun 2007
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Norah Head
