<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Feb 16 2010, 06:25 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>That's a magnificent pic of Micky. I'm sure you (as I am) having a bit of a laugh reading the inevitable claim of "I've been watching GP for 100+ years..." only for said to proclaim that 'Johnny come lately' to be the king of anything not excluding the title of "King of Slide".
Sigh....it's the usual ........ form the usual few. So Rossi was never comfortable sliding a bike???!!!!!????
Max was the guy on rails - he realised with the introduction of th 990's the value of sliding and spectacularly started training on a 'tard. Being of a netherworldly talent, this came instantly to him as it does to all the guys at this level - it is then down to personal style and discretion as to the degree that they choose to employ this in their racing. McCoy used to powerslide the ninja because it was so off the pace he used to like to live up to his reputation and entertain the crowd. In this era as we all know, a smoking 'McCoyesque' exit is seldom beneficial to a laptime. The YZR 500 was a different matter though
Jumkie, these guy's will never step out away from the fictitious facades that they've created, nor shed their Walter Mitty fantasies. I'm having more of a laugh now that I know that Barry 'king cinder' Machine has no trouble sliding a 1098 nor a 749
into corners, obviously summoning his substantial speedway experience and expertise in the process. It must be a dreadful quandry BM, getting up in the morning and deliberating over which one to ride - or more precisely dropping off to sleep at night and wondering which of them to pluck from the fantasy garage that resides in your head. Sliding a bike into a corner is usually accomplished via the back brake. Any ..... can do this, but to step it out nicely and precisely to unsettle your opponents and to line up for a late apex is a fine art - witness Nicky or the late Craig Jones as the chief exponents of this. Sliding the rear on the downshift was something that we saw a great deal of in early Moto GP by Rossi, Capirex and Gibernau et al. and as you quite rightly say BM it has been largely eliminated by the advent of the slipper clutch. Great to hear that you are still a master of this art, of which I have rarely witnessed in a controlled, measured execution outside the realms of professional racing. You'd have trouble smoothly sliding your barstool over to the next crowd of people that you want to bore to death with your incessant bar room braggadocio.
Barry..if you jumped on my 99 R1 and attempted to slide it under the throttle, out of a corner, the thing is so malevolant and unforgiving it'd immediately launch you into orbit quicker than a Saturn V. It'd spit you off faster than a ....... from an African Bull elephant on heat and then callously shake its head at your inability and dismiss you as a festering and fetid pile of roadkill. I can haphazardly back it in on the back brake or even the downshift, but a controlled slide off the throttle is a very, very unpredictable proposition - like trying to parallel/bay park 'Christine' in your local shopping mall.
I managed one very classy powerslide down Devils Elbow at Mallory, on the cold left hand side of the tyre. Where I should have short shifted up into third I decided to try and gas it out in second to get better drive - big big mistake. Devils Elbow is as the name suggests an evil corner created by Lucifer himself as a kind of afterthought. It's off camber and downhill, and practically the only section on the entire circuit were the left hand side of the tyre comes into play. The result was a beautiful stepped out sideways smoking slide down out of the bend onto the home straight which was entirely accidental, and utterly unintentional and quite frankly it scared the crap out of me....Why it didn't break away and toss me into the armco is beyond me.
Nobody on this forum produces intentional slides, at will, comparable to the likes of McCoy, be it under throttle or the downshift - and if I could, I can assure you I'd waste no ....... time at all getting it on You Tube and posting it on here for you all to see with a flashing neon style .48 font imploring you all to look at me.
Actually exhibitionism aside, most people I observe who claim to be able to slide a bike akin to 'Nitro Nori' or the 'lab-rat' either do so to a crowd of gullible assorted strangers in a pub; over internet forums; or conveniently don't own a motorcycle - I strongly suspect that you fall into all three categories. How can you spout such ..... when there's guys like Noodlerizer on here who last year competed in the AMA???!!! Not once has he had to regale this forum about how well he can ride - because it speaks for itself. Come for a ride with me Barry, I'd love to learn how to control a slide under your technical tutorship - oh you can't, you're 11,000 miles away...how convenient.
On the other hand, the few guys I know that can competently slide a bike at will don't need to tell you, or anyone else.....they just do it - and usually on a racetrack.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Feb 16 2010, 06:25 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Arabi, you got that ....... right! The thing sounds like 5 chainsaws pointed at your head all at once. The machine came from Hell and it's aim was to send anybody riding it back to where it where it came from.
.... Jum, I forgot you saw the TZ/KNRsnr tribute last year at the Indy Mile last year. I'd love to hear that beast on full song.
