Ross: Marquez saves not a coincidence

So now we know Marquez is able to ride over the limit, and save himself from crashes. Rossi thinks its a combination of both Marquez and the Honda. For some reason, the Honda doesn't fall when it tucks the front. Marquez knows this and puts his body between the bike and the pavement.

Gigi, are you listening? Some kind of tech that keeps the front inline, perhaps? Active steering?

 

Marquez should be nicer and let it the other Honda riders know about that feature.

 

Yeah, because it's clearly the bike that can do it. Marquez just lets it happen.

 

That makes sense. Other riders, unaware of this cutting edge technology, fight the bike and crash. Brilliant I tell ya.

 

Oh come on, everyone knows it is the lean angle activated hydraulic rod that comes out of the frame.

 

Sounds like a compliment to me. He’s not saying that the bike saves itself, just that Marquez has the talent to exploit a characteristic of it.

I sat on Weston Peick’s 450 at the Oakland Supercross. It was unbelievably stiff. I know that the stiff suspension “allows” him to ride it the way he does, but I also know that with my talent I would crash it leaving the pits. Same but different.

 

Clearly it's sand balast in the belly pan ala punching clown.

 

It also makes it sound like Marquez wouldn't be doing that on a Yamaha.

 

Avoids answering "how" Marc does it and why he can't as well. If anyone asks about Dani, he's too small to do it clearly

 

Meh. Both of them are no Eddie Lawson.

 

We're overlooking the obvious... Yellow Puta said it, so it must be true.

 

Whatever works. I love watching the young man ride.

 

Do all the teams use the same basic ( trail) front geometry?

 

If you mean, the opposite of a Harley, then yes.

 

I mean within, say, 12-15mm.