Factory Dreams And Satellite Fantasies

"I think I read somewhere that Aprilia is firing both of its current factory riders at the end of the year. I wonder if those guys cried or laughed when they got the news ..."

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Postmortem

"I'm not angry. I'm sad. Big difference ..."

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What Is A Company's DNA, Anyway?

"I kind of got a wiggle/slide out of the front, but I just didn't think that it was a big deal. Half a lap later, sliding endlessly across the desert floor, it was a big deal ..."

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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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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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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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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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