Sunday July 10, 2005 Random ramblings
Sunday July 10, 2005 Rather excellent picture of Rossi at Laguna Seca coming down the infamous "corkscrew", courtesy of rideontwo.com. The bike is in "retro" Yamaha livery, harking back to the Kenny Roberts livery from the 1970s to celebrate Yamaha's 50th anniversary. Looks really nice and Yamaha will surely bring out versions of their road-going R6 and R1 sports bikes in same livery.
It has to be said though, Rossi is possibly taking the 1970s theme a bit too far - judging by his locks, sideboards and sun glasses
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In other news, I have a lead on buying GP-class 250cc race bikes. So I'm going to start saving and hopefully get my hands on a late 90s, maybe even early 2000's, Yamaha TZ250 or Honda HRC RS250. Both these pure-bred 250cc racers have over twice the power/weight ratio of my current road-going Aprilia RS250, and hence should be a lot of fun on the track . Should at least solve my litre-bike problems, where I get overtaken on the straights by big 1L bikes who I then have to fight my way past on the corners again, lap after lap. A month or four of saving, a bit of luck and fingers crossed.
The Laguna Seca MotoGP coverage is on BBC2 at 2230.
[update: the original site resized the Rossi picture and removed the original big version, updated the link to match.]
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I'm getting a "not found" on that picture. Did you cache a copy?
Posted by Geoff Arnold on July 11, 2005 at 03:51 AM IST #
They changed the picture and URL. Fixed link in blog entry.
Posted by Paul Jakma on July 11, 2005 at 02:30 PM IST #
Posted by William R. Walling on July 11, 2005 at 06:29 PM IST #
William: Yeah, I know, two-strokes are fickle beasts. If I were sensible I'd get a 600 four. But I've ridden four strokes (CBR 400 and 600cc's) and they're so boring and unexciting - no manic powerband as engine hits the sweet spot and suddenly screams! I'm just addicted to two strokes, and I want to try a real two-stroke racer before they die out. :)
And yes, I know if I got my hands on one I'd be dragging it to the tuner and rebuilder of seized two-strokes on a regular basis, luckily I know a good one. ;)
Posted by Paul Jakma on July 11, 2005 at 06:45 PM IST #
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Posted by Jim Race AFM #250 on October 17, 2005 at 04:27 AM IST #