The Official 2020 Silly Season Thread

At the time, he'd have been out of his mind to choose an unknown satellite Yamaha team or Suzuki over Repsol Fucking Honda. Compare the resumes of those teams and tell me who you'd most likely gamble the rest of your career on?

And JLo was the one to reach out to Alberto Puig, not vice versa.

 

Prior to the Mugello win, it was pretty clear that Ducati was displeased with JLo.

 

If HRC said no and Ducati dumped him what are his choices?

 

I thought it was Suzuki who turned Georgie down?

 

No, he called them. Not the other way around.
Mir was signed to Suzuki pretty early, if I remember correctly.

Petronas, I guess.

 

That sounds familiar.

 

It was Davide "Going for youth" line...

 

HRC said yes, so what's the relevance of this hypothetical question?

 

Yep. He can probably thank AI29 for that. Suzuki didn't want to deal with another rider with an ego after that, even with Monster Energy willing to kick in a fat stack of cash.

 

Danny Kent's latest move is to jail

I shit you not: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-49355787

 

For a knife in his pocket. The UK is f'ed.

 

A 6" kitchen knike while collecting a debt outside a block of flats? I suspect he's dating Vicky Pollard.

 

I agree that they’re not inherently flawed. There are issues though. Casey complained that his bikes nevertheless felt consistently similar due to variances in frame manufacture with the trellis.

The biggest disadvantage I think is with the spec tire. That goes for WP suspension too. By using technology that others don’t, their data, wealth of experience and engineering talent pool are much more limited. Spec tires force technological convergence. It’s almost like developing your own software vs. using off the shell stuff.

Changing the frame and suspension from something with which they have enormous experience would be very costly, but the switching cost would be lower than if they did it later.

 

Yeah but you’re taking Italian vs German welding.

 

I know Suter actually made some of the Ducati frames but I think that was after the switched to the twin spar aluminum configuration.

 

you'd think that a couple of strain gauges applied to crucial corners of a trellis frame would tell you a bit....

 

The Pierobon frames seem to work alright in other series...

 

Apples, oranges and Orangutans but I get what you're saying.

 

I've always thought the same then thought I must be under thinking it and making it too simple or they'd be doing just that.

 

If you look back on the beeb it was actually Steeltoe who vetoed that shitte.