Agreed. Suzuki used to be about "Own The Racetrack". What will the new slogan be? Own an EV? Blame Volkswagen I guess.
‘Toe, want me to make is worse for you? Suppo said in an interview posted over at gpone that most of the bikes and spares are going to be tossed in the crusher for tax reasons. They’ll save a couple of bikes for a museum or whatever but the rest will be crushed and shredded.
Ugghhh...always ridden a suzuki and rooted for their riders...I think the "what would have been feeling" stinks
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I guess as long as they keep making parts for my K5 I'll live. I honestly haven't been much excited about Zook since Elias won the MotoA title on the revamped 2017 bike and when Mir won in 2020. Their lack of enthusiasm since then has caused my own lack of enthusiasm in kind.
I was discussing this with a friend. He suggested that Japanese companies, culturally, don't fail and go away. They get bought out by venture capital groups, and continue, sometimes as something else, but they don't go away entirely. His example was what became of Olympus camera brand. It was failing, was bought up, and rebranded as O-M so it could continue.
Wondering now if M4 Ulrich racing team shows Suzuki the door and rolls on a new brand to campaign on???
Really doesn’t make sense to continue with Suzuki, other than simply having bikes and parts to race in the near term. Sure be nice if Kawi, Honda, Aprilia, or even Ducati would increase their involvement via Ulrich’s team.
I was under the impression that m4 already were using old bikes, not receiving support or $$ from Suzuki for Superbike going on 2 years now. This impression is derived from Fongs interview, Ulrich interviews, and Greg's podcasts.
Not a single one of you mo'fo's said: "Dear Suzuki, Please hire Ken Roczen to race HEP Suzuki's in the '23 SX and MX series." https://racerxonline.com/2022/12/07/ken-roczen-chooses-2023-race-machine
Because I don’t know shit about jumpy jump jump dirty bike racing and know even less about Roczen. Dear Suzuki, I want a pony!
Hopkins put himself out of a job with his Goberting. Once he cut that shit out he tried Mick Foleying himself out of racing. I’m happy he crab walked away before they had to take him off the track in a bucket. Buuuuutttt, if he had stayed with Suzuki in motogp he’d be a multiple time motogp world champ, a two time American idol champ and the lead trombone player at the Detroit philharmonic!
