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[Bugnatr]

Geez you guys, with hours of racing :yahoo: Sunday where's all the feedback?? Moto GP, FIM and AMA.

After a quick morning blast on my FZ6 I was glued to the Tivo between honeydo's.

Are you all watching it now on Tivo due to Sunday rides, what gives?

 

[Bike Effects]

Geez you guys, with hours of racing :yahoo: Sunday where's all the feedback?? Moto GP, FIM and AMA.
After a quick morning blast on my FZ6 I was glued to the Tivo between honeydo's.

Are you all watching it now on Tivo due to Sunday rides, what gives?

Watched them all. I never miss. Thanks to DVR technology.

 

[FZ/FJR Mike]

Other forms of life stop when there's MotoGP on in my house!!!!!!!!!

 

[cougar8000]

Just finished watching GP last night. Great race. I am not a big fan of a Kentuky Kid, but what the hell is going on with him? He is getting worse and worse. I am really happy for Texas Tornado. Shame that he lost a factory ride. Go Rossi Someone should teach Pedro to smile not only when he wins. This guy will never get fans behind him with that attitude.

 

[keithaba]

Just finished watching GP last night. Great race. I am not a big fan of a Kentuky Kid, but what the hell is going on with him? He is getting worse and worse. I am really happy for Texas Tornado. Shame that he lost a factory ride. Go Rossi Someone should teach Pedro to smile not only when he wins. This guy will never get fans behind him with that attitude.

Being in KY, I am a fan of Hayden! But you are totally correct... what the hell is going on with him? I think Pedrosa has proven, it isn't the bike!

I blamed last year on some pretty unlucky crashes. He got taken out several times because of someone elses mistakes. I thought maybe just a bad year, and he'd pick it back up this year.... Oh well........ I'm just glad stoner isn't destroying everyone this year. Kinda got boring after a while last year.

 

[Randy]

Just finished watching GP last night. Great race. I am not a big fan of a Kentuky Kid, but what the hell is going on with him? He is getting worse and worse. I am really happy for Texas Tornado. Shame that he lost a factory ride. Go Rossi Someone should teach Pedro to smile not only when he wins. This guy will never get fans behind him with that attitude.

Being in KY, I am a fan of Hayden! But you are totally correct... what the hell is going on with him? I think Pedrosa has proven, it isn't the bike!

I blamed last year on some pretty unlucky crashes. He got taken out several times because of someone elses mistakes. I thought maybe just a bad year, and he'd pick it back up this year.... Oh well........ I'm just glad stoner isn't destroying everyone this year. Kinda got boring after a while last year.

They may both say 'Honda' on it, but, by no means are they the same bike.

Not sure how much truth is behind it, but, there are rumblings that he's been talking with Kawasaki.

 

[tstaff]

I’m a Nicky fan also & its painful watching to him go backwards this year, even the private Honda teams on last years bikes are kicking his ***.

I sure hope he can turn things around before Indy.

It’s feeling eerily familiar to the path of KRJR after his championship.

 

[feejer222]

Another great ride from Tose. 6th on a track he has never seen before. I expected Edwards to podium. He will win one this season I reckon.

 

[James Burleigh]

I was in heaven this weekend! Great racing! And shocking to see Mladin crash out. Fang is also a MotoGP fan, and we enjoyed it together Sunday evening.

Fang and I followed Hayden's winning season, and both leaped out of our chairs screaming that awful moment that Pedrosa took him out, with a similar reaction when Valentino crashed in the last race. But we're Nicky fans and are bummed to see him get passed and fall back. But it's great to see Edwards looking good this year. Actually, we follow all the yanks, and so it's tough to see Hopper having issues with his team.

This from Dennis Noyes regarding Nicky on SpeedTV:

Nicky Hayden is being outperformed by Dani Pedrosa and both Pedrosa and his mentor Alberto Puig have said publicly that Hayden is unable to guide development of the RC212V. In fact, as most engineers would agree, it is difficult to develop one basic 321-pound motorcycle to suit both a 115 pound rider (Pedrosa) and the 155 pound American.
 
Hayden is likely to be replaced by a smaller rider with a 250 background. Hayden has his own destiny in his hands if he can turn his season around, but, in my personal opinion, he needs to get out of that team where he has never been the number one rider even when he was fighting for the title, and certainly not after he won it.
 
Hayden has never been fully accepted, it seems, by HRC. That may be because the Japanese feel he was forced on them by American Honda. I believe that as long as Dani Pedrosa is at Honda, Hayden will always be regarded as a second rider by the manufacturer that he won the title for in 2006. Pedrosa has earned his current place by finishing second last season with an imperfect Honda and by coming back to run consistently at the front after missing the entire 2008 preseason due to an injury in Malaysia in post-season testing at the end of 2007—and after ending that season with a very convincing win at Valencia in the final race of the season, taking runner-up honors from Rossi who crashed there to lose second place just as he had in 2006 when he lost the title.

 

[Bugnatr]

Ahh much better, agree it is painful to watch Nicki moving backward. I am sure he is so frustrated it just keeps compounding on the track.

Toesland looked good, Lorenzo crashed again- bummer. The doctor is back in the house! How about that helmet?

Spies sure seems on top of his game while Maladin stumbles, great not to see Suzuki 1-2 for a change. The dual wheelies looked real sweet, go Hacking.

DVR a man's best friend.

 

[tstaff]

The doctor is back in the house! How about that helmet?

Pretty cool.

 

[squeezer]

Finally got caught up with all the races on my TiVo yesterday.

I think AMA race 2 was my favorite, which isn't something I expected to say this year.

Rossi is back and looking incredibly strong. How can you not love a guy with the sense of humor to put that on his helmet?

But Haga is my hero. That guy is a maniac. I can't believe what he did with a broken collarbone.

Does anyone else here wish Nicky would go to WSBK? The bigger bikes seemed to suit him better. And no matter what happens, I hope he's done with Honda.

 

[feejer222]

Finally got caught up with all the races on my TiVo yesterday.
I think AMA race 2 was my favorite, which isn't something I expected to say this year.

Rossi is back and looking incredibly strong. How can you not love a guy with the sense of humor to put that on his helmet?

But Haga is my hero. That guy is a maniac. I can't believe what he did with a broken collarbone.

Does anyone else here wish Nicky would go to WSBK? The bigger bikes seemed to suit him better. And no matter what happens, I hope he's done with Honda.

Must be hard to turn your back on Honda. Rossi did it with success, but Nicky aint Rossi by any means.

Just turned on the first televised practice at Catalunya and Danni tops the timing sheets from this morning with Nicky at 14th.