MotoGP | 2019 | Round 4 | España| Jerez | May 3 - 5

I wouldn't say the fork stop sliding, there's still a good part of the ground's reaction vectoring through the forks' axis. Those cornering forces are why the bike is leaning over after all.

So the side flex isn't replacing the 'vertical' (wrong word here) forces, they're an added twist, if you will. You still want operating forks when leaned over.

 

Wow....I haven’t had the chance to see the race yet, but I’d take it was snooze fest by the fact that you bozos are discussing fork cf layup affecting the engineered flex and ZERO talk of the actual race...

 

it was a good race to watch. definitely has it's moments, and one of them is the leader clearing out. Some old bike near the top, and all of that.

Back to the important things.
Top 4 Riders separated by 9 points for the Championship.

 

While that is awesome, it sucks that it takes Marquez crashing out to make it that close. He's only had two challengers all season. Dovi at Qatar and himself

 

to make it more interesting, they should put him on the KTM. That bike looks all out of sorts.

 

The KTM gave Lorenzo some fits...

 

Me on a bicycle could probably give Lorenzo some fits right now.

 

Lots of racing left but it sure feels as if MM has wrapped up the championship already. The other teams better figure something out before it really is too late. Yamaha, once again, seems to be chasing their tail.

 

if that's true, someone forgot to check if the linkage still worked....oops. other than that, the bike worked well, as it was better than the rest except 1.

 

Impossible. They have the greatest development rider in the history of motorcycles.

I am interested to know what has changed and why they are struggling. Neither of the factory riders are slouches.

 

Right, like there's no engineering in racing.

It has no effect whatsoever.

None at all.

 

Well hells bells, lets save a lot of money and call the season now.

 

This sucks. Miss seeing this dude in the mix. Total waste of talent over there.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/9...e8EytopJwEKrCo3AWSnLw6nDRlQFj7VCAbcwbDDzE03xs

 

When you had that "JL" fashioned into a #1 on the front of your bike you looked miserable. Face it. You never look happy.

 

Has anyone checked on his butler?

 

Yes, because this is exactly the point I was making.
Also, “let’s”? So you’re spending money to race in Moto GP? Who knew.

 

I think that Jon, Danerys, Tormund and the others set all his dead butlers on fire last night..

 

He’s showing all of that toughness that he is known for. It’s his bbs proclaimed trademark.

 

Just for fun I checked the math...

At 45 degrees lean the active plane of the forks / swing arm will take 70 % of a bump.

At 65 degrees lean angle that drops to just 42 %

Maybe not too big of a deal for street bikes - but for MotoGP is for sure an issue

 

Be nice. It's tough going from champion and championship contender to has been. Just ask Rossi