Joined Mar 2015
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Chertsey, Surrey, UK
Agreed 500cc was great. As for the enhancements (launch control etc), they should all be banned.
Agreed 500cc was great. As for the enhancements (launch control etc), they should all be banned.
It wasn't an unknown bike. Same bike and team he'd won the senior with the year before.
Apparently the Yamaha was downright dangerous. Slow, unpredictable, and was flooding the air box with fuel.
Nah Michael is misinterpreted, the media ....... hate him for some reason, the stick he got for dumping Yamaha at the last minute was horrendous. A couple of years ago he spent the best part of an hour chatting with us asking us what we do for a living and all that kind of stuff. Yes he's an aggressive ...... on the bike but not dangerous, in the past maybe, in fact definitely as there was a point around 2009/10 I often didn't know whether to watch Michael or hide behind the couch.
He's even admitted that he had to smoothen up and admitted he was out of order at the NW200 with William. At the press conference at the senior in 2014 I thought it was funny when he called out riders for ignoring yellow flags when one of them was sat squirming next to him and he called the media "a bunch of pricks typing .... on their keyboards"
I think he's great, a true maverick and unlike other riders if he chose not to do the TT anymore, the TT would genuinely miss him.
Thing is in that race he was in 3rd place and actually on course to do a lap faster than McGuinness did in the senior later that week. Did a 130.9 on a stocker from a standing start ultimately finishing second although he did break his own race record(as did Hutchy) and he did his fastest ever lap of the course(and second fastest lap in TT history) in the senior. None of which would have been possible on the R1, his fastest lap on the R1 which he'd been riding all year was a 124, he did a 124 on an old R1 on just his second visit to the TT in '08.
Joking about it, one could then remind Casey that he is (or at least has been) a big piece of MotoGP!
Yeah I personally haven't enjoyed it as much without him racing, still enjoy it but you just have to wonder when a bloke walks away while he's still winning what things would be like if he was still racing.
Joined Aug 2007
11K Posts | 3K+
Pomona NY
My next question would have been what kind of bike you ride.
Sort of thing that colors perceptions about racing. But as I said
pretty much idle curiosity. Did you think I would pan you if
you didn't ride? No way. It's good to have a new resident tom-boy
on the forum. You bring another color to the spectrum of opinions
here. And moreover, you being here means Jum is constantly
fantasizing about getting up close with you - which means he
spends more time at home whacking the catus - leaving him less time
to write 20,000 word blasts of verbiage - which in turn means
the Powerslide pages don't take as long to load.
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Joined Oct 2006
25K Posts | 4K+
Your Mom's House
I don't know enough about the Dunlop's feud, but I lose respect for them when they air it out in public. Makes me both disgusted and sad. These fuckers may die any moment, but they can't get along. One of them seems more of a .... than the other. Anyway, what they do on the road is mind-boggling. I watch it in endless loops sometimes on YouTube, and I awestruck every time.
Basically Jumkie the feud was blown well out of proportion, Michael got shown up by William in a Superbike race at the North West 200 and Michael made a heat of the moment "don't do that again" comment to William while he was getting interviewed by TV.
3 weeks later after Williams crash at the TT Michael put the record straight saying "yes we may have had a spat at the North West but I'm to blame for that and at the end of the day he's my brother, that man is more important to me than anybody else out there and these pricks can spend all day typing on their keyboards all they want" it should have ended there.
Not the exact word for word quote but he did admit he was in the wrong, he loves William and that pricks blew things out of proportion via their keyboards.
Pick up the Willski train at the shrop. Its dirty and cheap but It will get you off in the right place
Surely it would be unusual for the media to blow things out of preportion.
I mean, after all, isn't everything we see and read that is presented by journalists the god all truth, and nothing but the truth?
Surely they do not make things up or exagerate for their own benefit or to sell copy.
I for one am shocked that this may be happening
Joined Apr 2015
6K Posts | 5K+
NJ
Surely it would be unusual for the media to blow things out of preportion.
I mean, after all, isn't everything we see and read that is presented by journalists the god all truth, and nothing but the truth?
Surely they do not make things up or exagerate for their own benefit or to sell copy.
I for one am shocked that this may be happening
Exhibit A: Kropo and the Honda RCV woes.
MD helping marshalls and medics carry William to the helicopter at this years TT.
Sorry to ramble on but it just annoys me when people have a go at him for some of the things he's done or said. Especially when the sport is full of insincere people who have that "aw shucks, just happy to be here" demeanor. If he thinks the bike is handling like a saggy pair of ...., he'll say that just like he said the R1 was not competitive.
It's one of the qualities I admire in Casey as well.
Sorry to ramble on but it just annoys me when people have a go at him for some of the things he's done or said. Especially when the sport is full of insincere people who have that "aw shucks, just happy to be here" demeanor. If he thinks the bike is handling like a saggy pair of ...., he'll say that just like he said the R1 was not competitive.
It's one of the qualities I admire in Casey as well.
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