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PostPosted: 09:04 - 05 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

He spent about 6 months with his legs stitched together so the blood supply for one could be also supply the other whilst his leg healed after one crash.
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PostPosted: 12:00 - 05 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is gross and impressive in equal measures.
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PostPosted: 16:58 - 06 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yamaha M1 setup for heavy braking circuits.

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PostPosted: 21:34 - 06 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Linked brakes on a GP bike?!?

I must have missed that. Smile

I'm just going out on a limb here...ahem...But I strongly suspect that the doctor's dangle wasn't solely invented by Vale. Grass trackers...speedway also employ it even if it's for different and practical reasons.

This forum of armchair racers possibly isn't the best place to get the definitive answer, and from reading articles each rider has their own take on why they do it....some don't even know why themselves.

Does sticking a leg out really stop overtakes....nah...leave a gap and all's fair in love and a podium....but hey ever seen Leon Haslam drop a leg...I mean it's a miracle he's still got 2 legs. Very Happy

Increases drag? Yes, physics answers that one but there are many many world champions who don't drop a leg whilst braking heavily into a corner so it if was wholly effective they'd all do it....and with both legs....obviously not at the same time...but maybe the next generation will. Smile

Body positioning and that extra weight on the inside? Maybe.

Thumb brakes have been around for decades for loadsa reasons...everything from riders wearing out their toes due to ground clearance issues to riders in the current era using the rear brake to help turn the bike in a corner. Better feel from a thumb brake too.


iirc taylor mckenzie said it helped him w/ arm pump (i think he might've had an operation for this earlier in 2021 - an increasingly common procedure amongst pro riders apparently)

i'm not sure how it works but i think it's supposed to take some pressure off the arms, as a leg off the peg creates more pressure on the arse / seat area thus taking *some* off the forearms during heavy braking

but i personally don't think that's why valentino rossi started doing it - imo that was probably more of an affectation / signature move that he carried over from his super moto track - it'd be interesting to see what the two dates were from when the leg dangle started, i.e. did it roughly coincide with him having his supermoto gravel track built

but anyway, when you read that some of em don't even know why they do it you have to just think ermm okay lads, you're fast and brave but mebbe not bright
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PostPosted: 23:27 - 06 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lol... Pedro Acosta doesn't look old enough to even get a provisional licence.
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PostPosted: 23:34 - 06 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Easy-X wrote:
Lol... Pedro Acosta doesn't look old enough to even get a provisional licence.


Has he started secondary school yet?

Great wee racer, starting from the oits and winning takes some doing.
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PostPosted: 14:00 - 12 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good race.

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PostPosted: 17:36 - 12 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sam and Jake never fail to frustrate do they.. Brick Wall

The last 3 laps of motogp were awesome though, a top battle that. I did think that Marquez was going to do a torpedo move at any point collecting them both..
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PostPosted: 22:42 - 12 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sam sure is testing his team's patience. Hope that Jake is given a longer opportunity.

An impressive ride by Pecco. That was maximum pressure.
Marquez was impressive too despite the battering his confidence and body have taken. Pol or Takka couldn't keep pace.

Mir was outstanding on the Suzuki, now the slowest and least developed bike on the grid. A little bit more (x) and they could be dominant are my armchair thoughts.

Jack...I want to see him find a way to have enough grip at the end of the race, similar issue with the M1.

Vinny...Hmm..still have that feeling he could either go straight to the front or languish in the lower 1/3.

Here's what to come.

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PostPosted: 18:13 - 14 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sam Lowes stays with Marc VDS Racing for next season.

Collective sigh of relief?
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PostPosted: 19:18 - 14 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Howling Terror wrote:
Sam Lowes stays with Marc VDS Racing for next season.

Collective sigh of relief?


Their funeral parts bill. Doh!

I wonder if the Lowes boys will ever lose their crashing habit?
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PostPosted: 19:54 - 14 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brief look at his moto2 career and specifically last year it was really close and maybe getting disqualified in Austria was a fail to far.

The champ also missed out a race due to a mechanical but Sam also retired and missed the first race plus a retirement.

In it to win it and bring home the points even if in 2nd place but too much on the limit..blah ...Margins are etc etc blah...Stay on the bike... etc..blah. consistency.

I don't want to see him in Superbikes.
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PostPosted: 20:53 - 14 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Howling Terror wrote:

The champ also missed out a race due to a mechanical but Sam also retired and missed the first race plus a retirement.


Sam's had four DNFs this year already. Remy has had zero. Fernandez two.
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PostPosted: 19:34 - 17 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Misano looking like a wet race.

Pack shuffle time?



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PostPosted: 23:04 - 17 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeez... just watching the Moto3 highlights @ Aragon Shocked
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PostPosted: 14:22 - 19 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

How did Deniz Oncu get to start that race? Shocked
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PostPosted: 14:35 - 19 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

An incredible decision.

He must have passed the tests.

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PostPosted: 16:07 - 22 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe this is why Zarco has been struggling.

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It's a chin-stroker for sure that racers are resorting to surgery as racing these bikes over 45mins means removing the tissue that surrounds the forearm muscle.

MX riders do it too.
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PostPosted: 00:12 - 23 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^I think you’ve confused Zarco with a young Leonard Rossiter there. Ooh, Miss Jones/Vienna
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PostPosted: 00:20 - 23 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

N-N-N-Nooooo Miss Jones

That's most definitely <sqints> Yes it is Rigsby. Laughing
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PostPosted: 07:47 - 23 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 17:14 - 23 Sep 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Getting your head down sweetie...

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PostPosted: 13:16 - 02 Oct 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about that track!

10 million to resurface and slim chance of that happening for next year.
Even the riders that don't complain are voicing their concerns.

Suzuki have made some big changes in readiness for next year and Honda too.
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PostPosted: 21:42 - 02 Oct 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Jack not happy with "another bad tyre".

Dovi...not bad everything considered.
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PostPosted: 19:21 - 03 Oct 2021    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moto3.

'kin hell!
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