Actually, that's not far away from his race setting.
Unlike his predecessor, Lorenzo likes a long bike...but then so does Dovi. How this affects the Desmo since it had it's wings clipped is entirely in the realms of conjecture. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that we've seen the introduction of a mass damper in the tail section - (I'm sure that's what it is) - to reduce pumping on both.
I recall the big change with the Bridgestones was loading characteristics and the rear wheel sat so far forward. Wasn't Briggs fabled breakthrough for Rossi something ridiculous like 25-30mm adjustment on the swinging arm? Consequently the head angle and offset was way out there to compensate, which is something that massively suited Jorge. You'd expected with the reintroduction of the Michelins for this to have been immediately redressed - but it wasn't...well not by much anyway. The neutral feel - or lack of it on Lorenzo's setting - is unthinkable to most riders. However, with the change to the wets last season, Lorenzo has had zero feel perhaps exacerbated by his extreme rake and the excessively hard front wet which came into play at Assen last year. All the riders criticised this - but to Dovi and in particular Jorge, the lack of feedback must have been horrendous.
We are repeatedly informed from an armchair in Texas however, he wasn't trying and it was entirely 'psychological'.
