Joined Jan 2011
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The North!
Stoner threatens to leave MotoGP over rules
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Joined Oct 2006
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Your Mom's House
I agree, i suppose its just human nature. Frankly, i had hoped to tone down my own cat fights with peeps going forward from Sepang, even edited out and deleted some of my posts, as im probably ....... number 1 around here; but it seems i keep finding peeps to lock horns with.
My view on all the riders has changed a bit, i think they are all worth of praise, yes, that includes Pedro, a guy i use to love to hate. But this idea that nothing they say or do is worthy of some criticism is lame.
Again, yeah, some riders are going to say this or that, but some go beyond a bit and stick feet in mouth. I get these guys want the latestest tech, but that is wholely driven by the rules. Im pretty sure if we had an early rule that banned electronic aids, to suddenly allow them would have been met with similar crying. But to suggest an exit from the sport because of a formula change is arrogant. Notice the new boppers skipped that part of Caseys message. Yes, u can voice ur pleasure or displeasure, but to go overboard and may not want to be part of it, that is leave, should be criticized. Notice the big difference in Spies & Caseys take. Thats where i take issue. Do i want Casey tar & featherred? No. A simple point, it was a lame thing to say, period. I'll keep admiring his riding, and laughing at the fans who become boppers right before my very eyes.
Joined Feb 2007
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Tennessee
If Casey wants to quit, thats on him, and entirely none of your business. You act like you have some fan entitlement that he be present on the grid. Your assuming that those are not his true feelings. If he truely feels he would have no passion for riding dumbed down bikes, who the hell are you to crticize his decision.
Joined Jul 2011
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Dont Know
Good luck with the "debate" mental. Stoner was also against spec tires, so .... him eh. Let's divert every debate to personality.
What i understood from mental the new bobber posts was that at present motogp has $35 million locked up by three riders. Take a guess who. One Italian two Spanish. Now they could take that $35 million and redistribute to run how many more factory bikes? About 8. .... they could even put one more token American and Australian rider in the series. But instead all we hear is how Honda wrecked motogp. Once Honda are gone, what's left. A Spanish man in charge, with Spanish sponsors, spanish riders, and more races in Spain. Oh yeah and more power to Alberto puig. But everything will be ok because stoner the whinging prick will either quit or fail to get a sponsor to back his CRT. Yes I would like to hear from kroppo how replacing a power struggle with a spanish monopoly will improve the series. No need to respond, I'm just a bobber.
What i understood from mental the new bobber posts was that at present motogp has $35 million locked up by three riders. Take a guess who. One Italian two Spanish. Now they could take that $35 million and redistribute to run how many more factory bikes? About 8. .... they could even put one more token American and Australian rider in the series. But instead all we hear is how Honda wrecked motogp. Once Honda are gone, what's left. A Spanish man in charge, with Spanish sponsors, spanish riders, and more races in Spain. Oh yeah and more power to Alberto puig. But everything will be ok because stoner the whinging prick will either quit or fail to get a sponsor to back his CRT. Yes I would like to hear from kroppo how replacing a power struggle with a spanish monopoly will improve the series. No need to respond, I'm just a bobber.
Joined Apr 2011
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Pangea
Joined Oct 2006
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Your Mom's House
Who am i? Just another member on the site, just like u. Yet its never kept either of US from criticizing riders when we saw fit, would u agree? I dont know whats worse, a bopper who never knew better or a once soldier against bopperism (as a failure of logic) turned bopper. U just cant stomach any criticism of Stone's comment, eh buddy? Where is the guy that use to jump on a rider who thought they wer above the sport? What has changed in this instance?
Let me be the first to point out that the MotoGP season is officially OVER!
Return to your normally scheduled lives and cut the ........! It's going to be a long offseason. Begin preparing mentally for it. Take a break, push back from the computer and get out a bit
Return to your normally scheduled lives and cut the ........! It's going to be a long offseason. Begin preparing mentally for it. Take a break, push back from the computer and get out a bit
Joined Apr 2011
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Pangea
Let me be the first to point out that the MotoGP season is officially OVER!
Return to your normally scheduled lives and cut the ........! It's going to be a long offseason. Begin preparing mentally for it. Take a break, push back from the computer and get out a bit
Aint that the truth
Joined Apr 2011
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Pangea
Your constant criticism of everything and everyone in MotoGP (bar the exception of Nicky Hayden) tells me way more about you and your love of the sport than your six page essays ever will.....your unbridled attack on Bautista in which you attributed 100% blame to him at the last race is just another perfect example of what I am talking about. All of a sudden he is crap, dangerous, doesnt deserve a factory ride blah blah blah.
Your allegiances and views change with the wind....but the whining remains constant. You insist MotoGP is boring...I say you are.
Let me be the first to point out that the MotoGP season is officially OVER!
Return to your normally scheduled lives and cut the ........! It's going to be a long offseason. Begin preparing mentally for it. Take a break, push back from the computer and get out a bit
It's raining too much to enjoy my motorcycle, it's Canada, .... is getting cold
Joined Oct 2006
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Your Mom's House
Joined Jul 2011
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Dont Know
Aint that the truth
You have no evidence to make such a proclamation. I call you out as a fool, just like bm, your are blinded to the truth. You have no comeback do you, none whatsoever. Get off your heroes ..... and get a grip, on your own ....., for as stoner fans we can happily .......... all offseason long watching replays of the boring processional stoner victories!
Joined Oct 2006
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Your Mom's House
I had been ignoring for the same reason i ignore BM, ur contributions have been .....
Ur a hypocrite dude, lots of the same .... u supposedly criticised before has come to roost on ur doorstep. Ur worse than the old boppers, for all they knew was worship. U on the other hand are a guy who went from arguing their double standards to employing them with less provication. It reminds me of the peeps who first came to this country looking for religious freedom only to start a witch hunt persecution once they wer the top dogs. Ur very similar to them, ur a hypocrite dude, and ur ...... character is on display.
Joined Apr 2011
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Pangea
Motorcycle racing is struggling b/c it doesn't take care of people. Reducing superstar pay looks like viable plan to increase grid numbers, but spending more money on equipment and less money on people will only exacerbate the problems in GP.
Joined Apr 2011
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Pangea
Agreed....these guys earn every penny!
PS: I really like birdmans idea regarding a control fuel with a low octane rating....seems if they want to reduce costs and horsepower this might be an effective way to achieve that goal without compromising the engineering with rev limits etc.
But what the .... would I know?
I really think Casey just doesn't think before he speaks, he's gonna regret this 15 years from now when he's a GP legend and people ask him why he thought he was bigger than the sport. Jlo's comments about the CRT bikes were so much better, it shows he understands the situation and cares about what happens to his sport, the place where he was able to rise and become a champion. Casey should leave now and go become a test rider for Honda, I think he would enjoy having a track all to himself to set fast laps on. For a champion he's a poor ambassador and leader for GP.
Joined Aug 2008
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Thailand
Damn, takes a logical, even-tempered Canuck to point out the obvious. There have always been, and always will be caveats to full prototype racing - something peeps here conveniently left out of their "dumbed-down" arguments. BTW Bluegreen, though I'm from the Toronto area I love all of Canada and have spent significant time in the East, Prairies and West, one of my daughters lives in Kelowna... So I say .... the East/West hatred and focus on the U.S. corporate .... of our natural resources which has escalated exponentially since the NAFTA agreement...
