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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Labels: Honda motorcycles
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Casey Stoner managed to retain its dominance since the free practice I with a champion. Dani Pedrosa crashes. While Valentino Rossi won his first podium this season. Le Mans is full of stories.
In the race at Le Mans Circuit on Sunday (05/15/2011) night local time, Stoner initially failed to maintain pole position he achieved in the qualifying session. Leading position falls into the hands of teammate, Pedrosa.
But, Stoner continues to print the fastest laps until finally managed to overtake the Spaniard's. Stories for Stoner as finished up here because the fact he was not touched until the end of another racer.
Stoner managed to maintain a distance with Pedrosa, at least up to about 0.6 seconds. As for Pedrosa, he would get sad fate.
When the middle of a fight with Marco Simoncelli, he slipped to his right shoulder hit the track first. Pedrosa was unable to continue the race and he walked, holding his shoulder. From the news at the end of the race, Pedrosa back injury, this time in his right shoulder that.
Pedrosa fall incident that also resulted in Simoncelli. He is considered guilty and must eventually serving drive-through penalty. Simoncelli degenerate position and a blessing for Rossi.
The Doctor spur his bike to get past Jorge Lorenzo and finally sat down at number three. Shortly thereafter, Lorenzo lost position after overtaken by Andrea Dovizioso. Stoner, Rossi and Dovizioso into three leading drivers with terlemparnya Simoncelli.
There was a duel between Rossi and Dovizioso. Like the race in Portugal, Dovizioso back successfully winning a duel with Rossi. He claims to finish in second position and be a Honda put two drivers end the race in two leading position.
However, despite only finishing in third position, Rossi used to be complacent because this is the first time he got a podium this season.
Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa, must accept the bitter truth when it appeared in the French Grand Prix on Sunday (05/15/2011). Due touched with Gresini Honda rider, Marco Simoncelli, Pedrosa had an accident and the injury was diagnosed a broken right collarbone.
Two Honda rider was fighting tight to compete for second place in the Le Mans circuit. When will swing to the left, Simoncelli who menggeber bike is very fast to get past Pedrosa to take from the outside because he was late braking. Sure enough, Simoncelli managed to overtake. However, bad luck would befall Pedrosa for front tire rear tire brushed Simoncelli resulting in accidents.
Simoncelli survived the incident because he kept going faster and occupies the second position. But, unlucky for the Spanish rider Pedrosa as being in the post-injury recovery plate-making operation on his shoulder and bounced off a broken collarbone suffered.
From the investigation result Simoncelli guilty of illegal maneuvers so penalized. Although ultimately failed on the podium, Simoncelli can take home quite a lot of points for being able to finish in fifth.
With this reality, Pedrosa became very fragile condition. The reason, his left collarbone is also problematic due to an accident during practice at Motegi last year. That is, if it could appear on the next series, including the fifth series in Catalunya on June 5, Pedrosa should be more careful again so that no accidents occur that could exacerbate a physical condition.
Valentino Rossi absurdly pleased with the results of the French Grand Prix on Sunday (05/15/2011). The wait has been finally realized, where for the first time in his career he could be on the podium with Ducati.
Indeed, "The Doctor" worth celebrating small successes because he and the Ducati is not a favorite in the 2011 season. This is because the performance of the Desmosedici GP11 far short of expectations because of competition with its rivals from Honda and Yamaha teams. Moreover, his physical condition did not support the postoperative shoulder in November last year.
However, in the race for 28 laps at Le Mans Circuit, France, Rossi showed the appearance of a very impressive and fantastic. Start from a sequence of nine, seven times MotoGP world champion was slowly pushed forward and had been in second place before being beaten by the Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso, on the last few laps. Rossi is also the second defeat of Dovizioso after the GP of Portugal earlier this month he was defeated before the finish line in the race for fourth spot.
"I'm very happy, first podium with Ducati cause tremendous emotional, especially since I went there after experiencing a difficult period when we had many struggles to overcome my physical condition and also be able to better understand the motor," said 33-year-old rider .
"However, this is getting better and race on this day very enjoyable. I did a pretty good start, a few times to overtake the opponent, and I am involved in the fight with Dovi and (Jorge) Lorenzo. We have a different setting and I am faster than them at rest this weekend. "
"At the end of fun because I did a few laps with a good to fight with Jorge and I can pass it. Then, when Dovi came, there was another fight again."
"We are on a good path, but in some places we are still a lot to lose. When I tried to overtake Dovi, I thought it was the last lap, but it turns out there's still one more time, I'm not sure. However, it is difficult and congratulations for Dovi. "
Despite failing to become number two, Rossi was still happy. In fact, on the podium, the former Honda and Yamaha rider was celebrated the same as someone who just became the winner.
"Third place is certainly not like a winner, but similar," he said.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
French Grand Prix will of note changed from a means of Valentino Rossi's comeback to Compete in the front row. After the first two free practice sessions, The Doctor did not deny That the Ducati is still lagging far behind.
There are up to one second time difference, Between the fastest Honda rider Rossi with the two free practice sessions held on Friday (13/05/2011) yesterday. That note so bad indication if the Italian manufacturer will from not be Able to Compete with the fastest bikes on the track.
Rossi even have to change the motor settings on the session to get better speed.
"Obviously these results are not positive for us. Firstly Because We needed the extra five minutes of exercise due to changes in the rear shock Gives me a better feeling but I Could only eat two laps. So maybe if there is an additional one or two more laps I Could improv record time and my position, "Rossi said in Autosport.
"However, We are still far behind Because We Are still struggling associated acceleration. Motornya moving much too nervous and I think We made a mistake with the back. We are still Also Able to repair electronic systems. So We have to fix the problem Because I lost a lot of time, "beber uterus.
Related Rivalry on the track, Rossi did not deny That Honda is now in a position to lead. Speed Honda calls even Better Than the motorcycle world champion, Yamaha.
"Differences impressive acceleration. Also Honda is Also a bike with a good set-up. Motornya stable, the same as the Yamaha, but with 20 more horsepower," said Rossi
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The CBR1000RR (also known as the Fireblade) is a 999 cc (61.0 cu in) liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder sport bike that was introduced by Honda in 2004 to replace the CBR954RR.
Labels: Honda CBR 1000RR
The RC8 is KTM's first attempt at making a sports motorcycle potentially capable of competing in WSB. And for a first attempt it seems very good. Like many sports bikers I have been rather excited by the arrival of the Arseyate and was keen to give it a decent test to see if it matches up to all the hype.
I rode this one over a fair selection of roads here in Belgium, clocking up a total of 236 kms (147.5 miles) and it now has 1600 kms on the clock, so well run in I would say. My route included motorway miles, (E411) and good twisty (ish) roads that I know, being the N910, N946, N948, N936 and N97, around the general area of Dinant.
The way this bike was set up on the multi-adjustable riding position worked well. The bars and subframe were set at their lowest position and the footpegs were as low and as far back as they can go and this equates to a very comfortable riding position, with a fairly short reach to the bars. A bit more upright to what I am used to on my Blade.

Labels: KTM RC8





