Tuesday, May 31, 2016

You Put The Lime In The Coconut ...

"Cranked out of my brain on TheraFlu, DayQuil and whatever other over-the-counter cold meds I could find, every day I worked on something ..."

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Zombie Death Flu

“I think it's very difficult to take seriously the people out there who are lying in their bed with their laptop on their chest, sending out those abusive messages ... You just question yourself what's going on in some people's heads?"

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Weight No More

" ... for $65,000, you could have bought an Open-class superbike for the street that weighed less than a cutting-edge MotoGP prototype ..."

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Making Moto2 Matter ...

"Right now, with the 600cc market shrinking and the 1000cc bikes taking up most of the oxygen in the performance machines atmosphere, the 500cc twin's performance perception could be summed up in two words - beginner bike. New riders are almost apologetic about riding a Ninja 250 or a Yamaha R3. Who's going to go pay to watch them race?"

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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Innovation, Regulation, Inference and Speculation (Updated)

" ... the silly and ineffective horse-trading between Dorna and the manufacturers has managed to create a result that has simultaneously made for worse racing and pushed technological innovation in a direction that is further removed from the real world ..."


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p.s. Updated with images of the evolution and dismantling of F1 wings ...

Monday, March 21, 2016

Stuck In The Middle With You ...

"You can’t sell tickets to a race weekend for one 35-minute race, no matter how exciting it might be. The golden eras of motorcycle racing were filled with on-track action for the fans in attendance, and TV audiences won't matter if no promoter will put on a race ..."

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Deep Thinking And Cartridge Forks, Explained ...

The latest episode of Deep Thinking, as well as a couple of spectacular articles on cartridge forks, can be found on Ed's Lindemann Engineering blog:

http://www.le-suspension.com/le-blog/

Go there or be square. What's wrong with squares? They multiply by themselves!