Sniff Sniff** Anybody smell that??

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Austin @ Jul 23 2009, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>And I'm sure the Bridgestone and Michelin associations with Rossi had absolutely nothing to do with marketing. Absolutely 100 percent about his development. All that data and success Bridgestone collected with Ducati and Stoner? Throw it out the window, Rossi will make the tires much better. It makes loads of sense...

There was sarcasm involved in my post Austin, sorry… of course it has to do with Marketing too. As much as any Manufacturer keeping a rider for sales increase, specially US. And please don’t kill me for this, but they have more money than most other countries, so they can buy more bikes. And they have a large population that other Countries don’t, so they can buy more bikes for that reason too.

So you are right, development is part of it (with sarcasm in my post making it way too relevant), but Marketing may weight more. In Rossi’s case of course it does.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SackWack @ Jul 23 2009, 03:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Did you vote for him?



Are you serious?


Dead serious. He's got to be a thousand times smarter than Jesse Ventura
and I hear the rejoinder - who's not? But I think Franken will surprise people.
Already people are saying, a Jewish comedian from Nu Yawk - in Minnesota?
That's surprising.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (VHMP01 @ Jul 23 2009, 02:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>There was sarcasm involved in my post Austin, sorry…
No worries. I thought there may have been some sarcasm but I couldn't tell so I decided to shoot first and ask questions later. Apologies.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Keshav @ Jul 23 2009, 02:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Dead serious. He's got to be a thousand times smarter than Jesse Ventura
and I hear the rejoinder - who's not? But I think Franken will surprise people.
Already people are saying, a Jewish comedian from Nu Yawk - in Minnesota?
That's surprising.
I've met eight-year-olds a thousand times smarter than Jesse Ventura. That glorified ape can barely tie his shoes. Get ready though, he wants to run for president in 2012.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (halfpint @ Jul 23 2009, 09:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Me cause if they were able how come it hasn't been televised recently or even in the last 20years when technology has gotten a million times better eh!? eh!? eh!?

WHAT hasn't been televised?
The landers are far too small to be resolved with any telescope.



The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has only recently photographed the landing sites with sufficient resolution to actually see anything. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/mult...pollosites.html



(Needless to say, the Lunar Loonies will cry "photoshop" and continue to believe what they want to believe.)

Geez, I call a truce and this thread goes to .....

Rockdog, keep politics out of this, we were having a nice little conventional conflict with the Rossi vs. Stoner fans, don't .... it up by us having to go nuclear with Demos vs Reps.

Geo, Halfpint was being sarcastic (I hope).

V. so you were being "sarcastic?" Oh-kay, wink wink.

Austin, Jesse Ventura was smarter than Bush. (Sorry couldn't resist, though just stating facts.)




Get back on topic people: Rossi's secret special tires...

Carry on.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Austin @ Jul 23 2009, 03:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>No worries. I thought there may have been some sarcasm but I couldn't tell so I decided to shoot first and ask questions later. Apologies.


I've met eight-year-olds a thousand times smarter than Jesse Ventura. That glorified ape can barely tie his shoes. Get ready though, he wants to run for president in 2012.

Really? Maybe Ventura can pair up with Sarah Palin. If those two ever spawned
- the child - upon sliding out of Palin's ...... - would be possessed of such
immense stupidity, that it's very introduction into the world - would create
a black hole - that would suck up the entire Republican party and the Fox
Network and send it whooshing into some distant part of the galaxy
never to be seen again. The last thing Newt and Rush would see before
disappearing into the vortex would look something like this.

No need to post personal pics of rog....

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Jul 23 2009, 09:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Geez, I call a truce and this thread goes to .....

Rockdog, keep politics out of this, we were having a nice little conventional conflict with the Rossi vs. Stoner fans, don't .... it up by us having to go nuclear with Demos vs Reps.

Geo, Halfpint was being sarcastic (I hope).

V. so you were being "sarcastic?" Oh-kay, wink wink.

Austin, Jesse Ventura was smarter than Bush. (Sorry couldn't resist, though just stating facts.)




Get back on topic people: Rossi's secret special tires...

Carry on.


I was orginally being sarcastic, but now I think on......... Yes Ive seen the images from a very fancy camera, but how come they haven't landed again? They could have done it the other day to commenerate the first landing - done it with a camcorder and fed it back to the world from their spaceship via NASA. Haven't they had live link ups from that tin can to earth?? Im sure if Battlestar Galactica can do anything Im damn sure these rockets can. I mean after all wasn't battlestar galactica created as a test run for all the countries incase we had a nuclear war?????



Oh and back to topic will someone please answer my tyre question





and for the uncertain few - half of the above statement was meant in jest/sarcasim. Clearly one bit now isn't.
And thanks Jumkie for trying to point out my sense of humour

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (halfpint @ Jul 24 2009, 12:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>And thanks Jumkie for trying to point out my sense of humour
So you did get the "government cheese".

yeah i did but it looked like some mouse had been at the damn thing!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Jul 23 2009, 08:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Geez, I call a truce and this thread goes to .....

Rockdog, keep politics out of this, we were having a nice little conventional conflict with the Rossi vs. Stoner fans, don't .... it up by us having to go nuclear with Demos vs Reps.

Geo, Halfpint was being sarcastic (I hope).

V. so you were being "sarcastic?" Oh-kay, wink wink.

Austin, Jesse Ventura was smarter than Bush. (Sorry couldn't resist, though just stating facts.)




Get back on topic people: Rossi's secret special tires...

Carry on.

Holy .... Jum I didn't even say anthing. I wasn't going to but since you want to lay dictator of the site I must speak. To me there is no real distinction between Dems and Reubs. These days it is communists vs. everyone.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Keshav @ Jul 23 2009, 09:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Really? Maybe Ventura can pair up with Sarah Palin. If those two ever spawned
- the child - upon sliding out of Palin's ...... - would be possessed of such
immense stupidity, that it's very introduction into the world - would create
a black hole - that would suck up the entire Republican party and the Fox
Network and send it whooshing into some distant part of the galaxy
never to be seen again. The last thing Newt and Rush would see before
disappearing into the vortex would look something like this.
YEah lets hear it for another commie Keshav!!!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ROCKGOD01 @ Jul 24 2009, 01:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>YEah lets hear it for another commie Keshav!!!

If you were fishin' - I ain't bitin'. You and me agree on too many things.
Why .... up a friendship? FYI Communism doesn't do it for me - and
on the other end of the spectrum ... well, lets just say, some of my best
friends are Republicans - but I wouldn't let my daughter marry one.

Just saw Thomas Scholtz (sp?) who is the coordinator for all the Bridgestone guys who work with individual teams in Motogp. Seems the white line gets painted on after the tyres are mounted onto the rims. His version about last Sunday is that in all the dry tyre/wet tyre confusion some tyres didn't get painted. It wasn't just Rossi who was missing his white line. It also happened with Kallio and Dovizioso's tyres. But of course some people just have to pick on Rossi.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J4rn0 @ Jul 22 2009, 10:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>...Now, do you guys really think that if anybody at Bridgestone was surreptitiously giving 'special' tyres to any rider, they would forget to properly mark them like any other tyre, making them stand out instead? Naaah

I would rather think this was Rossi' team erasing the white line to confuse other teams about Rossi's tyre choice (..look, they just declared a soft rear tyre but mounted a hard one instead!).
Agree. If he had a 'special' tyre everyone would make bloody sure nobody could tell, rather than make it look conspicuously different.
However disagree with second part. Seems that removing the white line would involve using solvents which would compromise the rubber quality making the tyre dangerous.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bikergirl @ Jul 25 2009, 09:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Just saw Thomas Scholtz (sp?) who is the coordinator for all the Bridgestone guys who work with individual teams in Motogp. Seems the white line gets painted on after the tyres are mounted onto the rims. His version about last Sunday is that in all the dry tyre/wet tyre confusion some tyres didn't get painted. It wasn't just Rossi who was missing his white line. It also happened with Kallio and Dovizioso's tyres. But of course some people just have to pick on Rossi.



Agree. If he had a 'special' tyre everyone would make bloody sure nobody could tell, rather than make it look conspicuously different.
However disagree with second part. Seems that removing the white line would involve using solvents which would compromise the rubber quality making the tyre dangerous.

Just for the sake of being bloody pedantic - the white line is only chalk. Comes off with water
and a sponge.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Keshav @ Jul 25 2009, 04:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Just for the sake of being bloody pedantic - the white line is only chalk. Comes off with water
and a sponge.
My hormones have currently undermined my sarcasm-detection genes. You were being funny right?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bikergirl @ Jul 25 2009, 12:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>My hormones have currently undermined my sarcasm-detection genes. You were being funny right?

No - and no sarcasm either. My understanding is that the white line is simply
a kind of chalk.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Keshav @ Jul 25 2009, 08:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>No - and no sarcasm either. My understanding is that the white line is simply
a kind of chalk.
Oh. In that case your understanding is off. It's a kind of paint.