Topic: Australia Moto GP 2008, Stoner wins!!!!!

[Terry in Australia]

Ah, what a great race, and my three favorite riders all made it to the podium:

1. Stoner
2. Rossi, and
3. Hayden.

Man, it doesn't get any better than that!

[Jerry Rxman Griffin aka MuthaF'er]

I like the avatar    I see you haven't run out of the Makers.

[oldbiker]

Yeah, good win. Must be great to have the quickest bike with valve gear your opponents can't use because of patent rights.

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah, good win. Must be great to have the quickest bike with valve gear your opponents can't use because of patent rights.

Hey grumpy, get back in bed and get out the other side!!! 

[Soos]

Yeah, good win. Must be great to have the quickest bike with valve gear your opponents can't use because of patent rights.

Hey grumpy, get back in bed and get out the other side!!! 

With things like that time is the great equalizer.

But it brings out the best in those without it at times, worth watching the 3rd and further back riders without that tech.
It's probably some of the best riding they have done in a while.

Gotta push it to keep up.


l8r

[Soos]

 

Where on earth did you get the avitar terry?
It's gotta be hard finding riding suits for you...

[Rocking-M]

Having watch several of the races this year, it's clear that Grumpy has a valid point.
Stoner isn't quite up to Rossi's level just yet and the bike makes the difference in this case.
Of course it's a Ducati so I'm liking it. 

[nickjtc]

Gee, thanks a lot Terry for spoiling it for all of us who have to wait until noon to watch the race.................

[DammitDan]

That's one of the original mutant Terry animals running around.

Where the Cheeze Whiz? 

[Rocking-M]

Gee, thanks a lot Terry for spoiling it for all of us who have to wait until noon to watch the race.................

Yea, on another forum with a bunch of Australians they started a Tool of the Month award, Terry gets it here. 

[heffay]

stoners never win.

[Terry in Australia]

Gee, thanks a lot Terry for spoiling it for all of us who have to wait until noon to watch the race.................

Yea, on another forum with a bunch of Australians they started a Tool of the Month award, Terry gets it here. 

Yeah mate, but tools are useful, whiners, on the other hand, make really good speed bumps!

[Rocking-M]

Terry, you'd fit right in over there, get yourself a duc. 
They also whine quite a bit about those cuddly little drop bears.
I told them they were a bunch of pansies. 

[upperlake04]

 You have that wrong Roberto - just did a google search on drop bears, never having heard of such a thing -  they're dangerous!

[CrisPDuk]

And a fantastic performance from JT   Rossi definitely earned his podium today

I love Phillip Island, definitely one of the best located race circuits there is

Yeah, good win. Must be great to have the quickest bike with valve gear your opponents can't use because of patent rights.

Actually the quickest bike through the traps today was the Gresini Honda beneath Shinya Nakano

[Rocking-M]

Dave, that lovely little bear wouldn't hurt a flea, ok, maybe an Australian, but a flea, no. 
Now those Australian Jackalopes on the other hand,


Hey, just watched the race, Stoner rode a good one, but Rossi's from 12th to 2nd was impressive.

[oldbiker]

Terry, I wasn't critisising Casey! I did say "a good win" but it doesn't alter my opinion that Ducati have an advantage due to their trick valve gear.
I raced for 31 years and know from experience that having even a slight advantage mechanically can make a BIG difference to results over a long period.
However I say again Casey is a good rider at a time when there a lot of good riders.

[CrisPDuk]

Terry, I wasn't critisising Casey! I did say "a good win" but it doesn't alter my opinion that Ducati have an advantage due to their trick valve gear.
I raced for 31 years and know from experience that having even a slight advantage mechanically can make a BIG difference to results over a long period.
However I say again Casey is a good rider at a time when there a lot of good riders.

Personally OB, I would say Ducati's big advantage at the moment comes more from their extremely trick engine/fuel management systems (especially through corners), than the desmo valve gear
Both the Honda and Yamaha engines are more than capable of revving to the the same insane levels as the Ducati, they just can't do it over a full race distance.

Additionally, the Yamaha is never going to match the straight line speed of either the Ducati or the Honda because it has to have an extra (power sapping) idler gear in the drivetrain thanks to it's contra-rotating crankshaft.  Conversely, that is reckoned to be the main reason the Yamahas can easily out corner everything else on the track

[oldbiker]

Thanks for that Crispy Mate.

[UnCrash]

Best becareful with Terry lest he inhabit the angry koala

[Sam Green Racing]

And a fantastic performance from JT   Rossi definitely earned his podium today

I love Phillip Island, definitely one of the best located race circuits there is

Yeah, good win. Must be great to have the quickest bike with valve gear your opponents can't use because of patent rights.

Actually the quickest bike through the traps today was the Gresini Honda beneath Shinya Nakano

Noel, at the start of the season I said somewhere on here to watch out for JT.
 He had to learn to ride a GP bike and also had to contend with tracks that he had never ridden on.
He's had the odd DNF which makes his overall points tally quite impressive considering he has 10 full factory backed machines to contend with all being ridden by riders with track and GP experience.

Sam.

[Terry in Australia]

Dave, that lovely little bear wouldn't hurt a flea, ok, maybe an Australian, but a flea, no. 
Now those Australian Jackalopes on the other hand,

Ha ha, I've seen Koala's rip the shiit out of big mouthed tourists wearing cowboy hats, they've got claws longer than your dick!

Oh, I had a Duke many years ago RM, it was a "classic" 900SS, I know the new belt driven ones are excellent, but that thing was the biggest piece of shiit, I sold it to buy my first "K" series BMW, and never regretted it a bit.......... 

[oldbiker]

Claws longer than your Dick.  You speak for yourself Terry.

[Rocking-M]

Claws longer than your Dick.  You speak for yourself Terry.

+1 Oldbiker. 

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, at your age John, your ball bag is probably longer than your dick! I heard a terrible (but funny) story on the radio about an old guy in the hospital toilet who managed to "press his nuts" by sitting on them, the pain was (apparently) hideous, but he didn't have the strength to get off them, and had to wait for an orderly to lift him off them! That's something else I'm not looking forward to...........