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« Reply #330 on: July 08, 2015, 05:48:56 AM » |
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 Marco Melandri splits with the Ape.....  Nothing surprising with that announcement courtesy of Crash.net
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« Reply #331 on: July 08, 2015, 06:06:48 AM » |
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"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
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To realize the value of nine months:
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« Reply #332 on: July 08, 2015, 08:41:08 AM » |
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Better luck next year Marco!
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No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori. Good people drink good beer. Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.
It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level. Everything else is just fluff.
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« Reply #333 on: July 08, 2015, 07:49:06 PM » |
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Good story.....andl will someone please tell the automated/PC expletive fixer that it misspelled "Pregnant Dog Ged"  |
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« Reply #334 on: July 13, 2015, 03:01:33 PM » |
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If MM has a lot to learn. Last year 10 in a row. I guess you would like for him to just follow like many of the others. Something else, 3 Spaniards on the qualifying podium. We have one American racing, why no USA guys. Look at Formula One racing, no Americans. What's up.
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« Reply #335 on: July 13, 2015, 03:20:05 PM » |
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Not popular in the States.
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« Reply #336 on: July 14, 2015, 07:27:21 AM » |
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Not to mention AMA going to hell in a handbasket when DMG was in charge. I've been watching some of the MotoAmerica races and it seems to be better than before. It's just going to take a while before I can picture it getting enough traction to grow as a sport in US after so many years of neglect. It didn't help at all that the last US rider that went to Moto2 (Josh Herrin) pretty much bombed.
But yeah... no real support system for that kind of racing in the US. It's like asking why aren't there more Euro drivers in Nascar.
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« Reply #337 on: July 14, 2015, 11:45:53 AM » |
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Even when King Kenny, Scwantz Rainey Lawson and Spencer were big in GP, motorcycle road racing was not very popular in the US. It didn't help that the technology at the time was stone age and we couldn't see what they were doing.
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To realize the value of nine months:
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"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”
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« Reply #338 on: July 14, 2015, 04:23:54 PM » |
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While perhaps not the prime reason, it is worth noting that we (USA) are also not a motorcycle culture---present company and related friends excluded of course. Virtually every European I know owned a bike or scooter at some point, even if they don't now or ever plan to again. It's just a big part of the culture. Meanwhile, maybe 3% of the people I knew before I got into riding had owned a motorbike. It's largely a subculture here. That being said, a subculture of a country with 300+ million citizens is still pretty big, but that in part explains why it is not such a big thing compared to Europe.
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« Reply #339 on: July 14, 2015, 04:36:23 PM » |
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The reason there are more moto drivers in Europe is simply a matter of economics.
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« Reply #340 on: July 14, 2015, 05:43:30 PM » |
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The reason there are more moto drivers in Europe is simply a matter of economics.
This is true percentage wise... and also pure numbers wise. There are over twice as many of them after all.  |
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« Reply #341 on: July 14, 2015, 06:08:55 PM » |
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This is true percentage wise... and also pure numbers wise. There are over twice as many of them after all.  |
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« Reply #342 on: July 15, 2015, 07:19:43 PM » |
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Doesn't help that the races are televised days after the event, either...
Watched the Miller Motorsport races and, looked like the stands were empty....anyone here go?
Barber is always 'popular' so will gauge the popularity based on the density of picnicers visible on the knolls..
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« Reply #344 on: July 16, 2015, 07:23:12 PM » |
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They've seemed a bit dodgy since last season and the 'difference of opinion' with FTR.
I'm hoping that Bradl and Baz don't end up on the street-corner selling pencils.
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