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The Official 2020 Silly Season Thread

Discussion in 'General' started by The Great One, Jul 1, 2019.

  1. rcarson15

    rcarson15 Well-Known Member

  2. kenessex

    kenessex unregistered user

    Kent should come to Moto America next season. We don't care about knives at all and only a little about guns. He must have a few sponsorship commections left.
     
  3. worthless

    worthless Well-Known Member

    MA is like the Oakland Raiders of roadracing.
     
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  4. Did you even read the article? According to the article, it wasn’t a pocket knife, and it wasn’t in his pocket.
     
  5. The Great One

    The Great One Well-Known Member

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  6. 418

    418 Expert #59


    Eugene deserves another shot. I don't think the team he's on this year has got their shit together.
     
  7. prospected

    prospected Well-Known Member

    Eugene is highly regarded by D’alligna in his speed and development from his Ape days. That’s a great move for BMW and Laverty to get competitive again.
     
  8. TX Joose

    TX Joose Well-Known Member

    I think Eugene will go much better on the BMW.
     
  9. tzrider

    tzrider CZrider

    Please, someone ask him to lose his 70's porn star mustache....

    :D
    [​IMG]
     
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  10. prospected

    prospected Well-Known Member

    I think he may come in and upstage Tom. Alot smoother style might especially suit the Beemer motor if they get their power up for next year.
     
  11. Sabre699

    Sabre699 Wait...hold my beer.

    LOL...
     
  12. Steeltoe

    Steeltoe What's my move?

    Not sure what the problem is in WSBK. They need to put Peter Hickman on it! :p
     
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  13. cf

    cf Well-Known Member

    I don't think so. You can design a weldment to have the same stiffness (or resulting strain) relative to a given load with either aluminum or steel, even the (almost) same natural frequency, but the way it 'feels' relates to the transmissibility and damping of the relative materials in their respective structures and that is not an exact science.

    A simple example is that a steel tube of 2" od and .065" wall has about the same bending stiffness as an aluminum tube of the same OD but with 0.200" wall. But hold one in your hand and bang it against a tire, and do the same with the other and they won't feel the same. For the same force of the hit you would measure the same strain and the same deflection, but the feel/sound/etc will be very different.

    I think the feel/sound/etc is the 'language' of the chassis, and most riders are fluent in only aluminum beam. Steel trellis is a different 'langauge'.
     
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  14. younglion

    younglion Well-Known Member

    I'd guess Tom has double the points of Irish Tom Selleck at the end of 2020 - providing neither miss time with injuries of course.

    Lavery has shown ZERO speed the past 3-4 years and is horribly inconsistent. Plus, he's not a fan of argy bargy stuff so good luck getting ahead of the Duc's, Ninjas, and R1's on sheer chassis feel.
     
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  15. notbostrom

    notbostrom DaveK broke the interwebs

    Ginsu?
     
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  16. sicc

    sicc Well-Known Member

    Slap chop
     
  17. Quicktoy

    Quicktoy Is it Winter yet?

    Why didn’t Danny just bring a machete? All the “Asians” get away with those stabbing everyone in London.
     
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  18. Dude, this is General, not the Dungeon. Please keep that race-baiting crap out of General.
     
  19. Quicktoy

    Quicktoy Is it Winter yet?

    Wasn’t race baiting. Was stating a fact. And stating exactly how it’s reported.
     
  20. Irrelevant.

    If you want to talk about violent crime and its relationship to race and politics, this isn’t the right forum.

    You know that already.
     

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