MotoAmerica - Round One - Road Atlanta 04/21-23

Not a fan of the looks of Cam B's BMW....looks like a bloated whale compared to Gagne's bike. The paint isn't doing it any favors.

 

Oh c'mon...its better than his brothers orange cat sickle bike

 

God those are awful. I never pretend to have any type of decorative or fashion sense, but jesus - pale orange and cream/white? Yuck.

 

Yep

 

I was always more of an Eslick than Herrin fan from their Daytona Sportbike days, but I can't help but love and admire this dude giving his absolute all on the track. He reminds me a bit of Johnny Rea in that he's relentless and will not give up no matter what. That being said, I can't help but shout loud enough to him 'STOP READING THE COMMENTS' - he just lets things get to him too much and feels the need to spout off and defend himself when it isn't really necessary.

His latest post/story explaining what happened in race2 was great. Part of the reason I like him is because I KNEW we'd get to hear his side from the horse's mouth on the incident - and it was great insight. He'd just be so much better off if he had thicker skin. I assume he'll get there as he ages. We all tend to give less of a shit of what other people think as we get old.

 

I had an old 72 Suzuki 350 that was orange. It was ugly but that 2 stroke ran pretty good.

 

Yea but the proverbial orange "cat" is out of the bag now and who was on the top of the box?

I had an orange RD350 for a while. It matches the color of the MOAB bombs they used in Afghanistan. But I'm under the impression that the orange RDs killed more people than that bomb.

 

Have you ever heard of Shell Thuett ?

 

Suzuki named it the T350 Rebel but it was only 315cc. Pretty hideous but she went like greased stink. At least I thought so.

 

I had an orange RD350 for a while. It matches the color of the MOAB bombs they used in Afghanistan. But I'm under the impression that the orange RDs killed more people than that bomb.

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HA, I had 2 '75 RD's, thank god i'm still alive!

 

Gentlemen ... the official color was Portuguese Orange. 1975; MSRP was $995.00.

The one I have has about 1000 miles on it and is perfectly stock, down to the tires.

 

Look.. you can have orange and you can have white and you can have that weird green color on Kalebs bike if you want it for whatever reason. But the way they put them all together is the ugliest race bike I think I've ever seen.

 

Kayla wasnt very good on the broadcast imo. dont really blame her much as I highly doubt they gave her any prep or training and she is supposed to be racing. she talked over her partners, droned on for too long, and repeated herself a ton. she is hella cool and calm on the mic tho and there wernt too many ums or uhhhs that drive me up a wall. I love that they, MA, give some injured riders a chance to do comms. I remember they did the same for Kaleb when he was out injured and Jackson Blackmon too iirc.

Angelle Sampey was TERRIBLE, shes a legend in her sport, I personally like her but on the mic came off as ditsy, and as if she was on the weed gummies.

I was very disappointed with how little Hannah Lopa was involved. Shes the 1-a and was no where to be found.

The Orange Cat bikes are very cool imo, I dig the orange. While it may be lost on this crowd the neon / bright colors are very fashionable at the moment.

 

Kaleb’s is even more exaggerated looking with his paint. Looks like a Hammerhead Shark on meth

 

The BMW look is growing on me. I like it.

Makes me wonder if its less draggy at speeed.

 

None of those colors are neon though.

 

Kalebs? thats got the neon yellow / green accents

 

Jake going under the knife.

https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/motoamerica-gagne-undergoing-surgery-this-week/

 

Yeah but it's not neon green it's like a stale baby puke green at least on TV.

 

hahah