Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Topic Date User

Off-topic Climbers who ride version 2; MOTORcycles 18-Jul-2013 At 11:06:13 AM technogeekery

Message

Yes, those MotoGP boys are seriously tough. Awesome effort by Lorenzo in Assen - and I was sickened to see his crash in practise in Germany, and subsequent re-injury. I can't believe he is thinking of riding at Laguna Seca. Jeez - these guys earn their money...

Wasn't Germany an interesting weekend as well, with Pedrosa (another hard crash - he was nearly 3m up in the air on that one)) and Lorenzo both out - that has leveled up the championship nicely, we've got a real competition on again. Fantastic to see Rossi competitive again (and isn't he enjoying it too!) and I'm rooting for Cal Crutchlow - love his style, work ethic, sense of humour - and he is one very tough cookie as well, riding hurt in just about every race this year. He will be a winner once he gets a proper factory ride. Best of all, he's not Spanish!

What MotoGP needs is more factory bikes on the grid - there are a bunch of super talented riders going aroudn in circles and making up the numbers, but who will never win because their bikes are uncompetitive. Come on Suzuki, get your bikes back on the grid! Kawasaki are cleaning up in Superbikes - would be brilliant to have some green on the grid too. But what would make me most excited is if KTM would up the ante and build some big prototype bikes as well as the tiddlers...