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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep.19 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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boat capsized in the holy water. Wash our peace, guys.
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Always go back to your dirty pig.
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the kitchen. I gotta
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be listening to the be forever. Cool podcast, my name is Rex 45.
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My name is t.j. to Isn't coffee what's going on man?
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Doing good man, glad bike Seasons here where everything is
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on weather's, getting better. The flowers are blooming, nice.
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Fortunately New England is we got a quick summer blast and
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we're still suffering with the cold weather rainy.
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Actually, April Showers is happening, but can't complain.
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Did my first track weekend. So getting ready for the next
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one. Okay then.
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All right. So you're feeling good about now
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that the time has passed since you erase last.
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I mean, for me it was like, six months.
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Oh yeah, you had your first weekend.
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How's that feeling? Finally got the itch out the
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way. I mean it was cold and rainy.
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It was cold. Finally got start my camping
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season, you know. Up in the tent.
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But you know, it was warm for where I was in the den but it
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was cold. It was really, really.
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So you weren't in the camp. Are you in a tent?
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Yeah, I wasn't it. What you talking about Willis?
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I mean, I'm East New England. You trying to get like a Boy
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Scout badge or something, but it was actually better the first
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day, first two days I went, it was in the 60s, okay?
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They just slowly the cleat declined towards towards Sunday
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And 100 percent chance of rain. Yeah, I haven't done the tenth
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thing. I had to count myself out.
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I told myself while riding anything, at least tried to
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participate in rain, but when he says, hi 42 degrees.
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Yeah, I can just say no, thank you.
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Okay, for now a lot of people stayed out but it was overall
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good weekend. How about yourself?
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Well, I mean it's been a little bit since we've done a show so a
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lot has happened. Ben, I mean, you know, you have
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started the offseason. I think I've started my season I
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think we've done the show since my season is the season of we've
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been on a track. So for me, you know, my season
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started at CMP in March to the marsh.
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I wish it was March March and April couple of weeks ago and,
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you know, the first time out on the, on the 2022 and, you know,
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just trying to figure out settings and and just making
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sure everything you do is work, and Stuff like that.
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So you got the run your new KTM, right?
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Yeah. Yeah, you know, and but it was
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raining or the track was wet and I'm trying to think how it
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works. Why would it be?
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Perfect. Exactly.
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Whatever. And yeah, your new bike?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And so it wasn't it was one of those things where I don't
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remember which day was wet, but I did do a practice session on
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Friday and I don't remember if it was whether or not, but I
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know I ran slicks on the whole weekend. so, you know, but It
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was interesting because, you know, when you, when you have a
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new bike and, you know, you kind of, you know, what your old
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bike, if, I mean, if it's your first time out, then, you only
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have one bite, but if you, you know, have a couple of race
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bike, we just like, once you have a bike figured out and
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you've been riding it, you know, and everything works.
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And all that. Yeah, it's all good and when you
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take on something new, where you know, it's newer version of
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something Thing. So it's like parts and not as
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readily available. You know, there's you have you
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find there's two things you either go mad, you know I'm
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saying or you find a lot of patients, right?
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And and so it that was the thing.
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That was the biggest part for me was like the whole process of,
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you know, parts and stuff like that.
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And even like, you know, like, you know, I've done two rounds
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and my quick shifter still isn't figured out, you know, I mean,
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and I'm hoping to figure it out by by the time this airs I'll be
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in pit and and so I'm hoping to have it figured out by then.
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So, you know, you know, it's one thing like I, you know, I'm on
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my way. This is my fourth bike.
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I build, says for. Okay, my third bike, I've built
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to our six. And then this, this, this this
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KTM and you know, with the R6, there's a there's a lot of stuff
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that's hasn't changed up to the 2021 or whatever 2020s I think
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is the last year, they really made the R6 now It's just, you
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can just buy the race version, I think maybe 21, whatever.
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But you know, my son, that that was the easier bill because I
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could, you know, when I build a 2012, like all the parts were
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are already there. I didn't have to, like, try
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stuff and figure out stuff and see if stuff work.
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And where this is it was was it's not that much of a
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difference between the older bikes.
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But it's new but it's big is a big enough difference that
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they're different and so you know I'm figuring it out so You
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know, CMP for me, you know, I had to remember that.
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It was a Shakedown, it wasn't like I'm trying to, you know, do
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Podium or try. And everything's ready.
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Exactly. You know I'm saying so it was
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your testing time. Exactly.
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So, you know what I mean? So, and what I realize that and
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I and you can touch on this one, about your Your experience at
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Loudon. But I found that, you know,
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there were a lot of red flags on Saturday and, you know, it and I
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don't know why. So, I'm not going to sit here
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and say, I like, I do, I usually don't watch races because, you
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know, first one, the main reason is, you know, I remember
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watching the race in Jersey to watch the experts like You know
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the race before my race and there's like a big crash in turn
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one. So I don't watch races because I
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don't want to see what happens and and have that having to
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overcome that, you know, I'm saying because everybody's
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different. So for me, I just chill out and
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just focus on my race, you know? I mean so like on Saturday
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there's a lot of red flags, you know I'm saying?
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And and I don't know why that is four Riders the riders that
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crashed and and And you know, I mean, you know, for me if I
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crash or if I make a mistake I try to figure out what it is.
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I could do different doesn't mean next time it happened.
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I would do different but it's nice to know.
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I can have a Lisa as option. You know I'm saying?
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Like if I'm on the situation again.
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Okay. Maybe I did this and that didn't
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work out. So maybe if I do this it may
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work out you know saying How's the weather down there?
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I mean, couldn't been better than what we had, but I don't
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know. Was it?
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Yeah, I know the West Was it raining the whole time or know
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those. It rained that night and it was
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water on a track but you know I'm saying?
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So, I mean, I could play a part in it, like I don't like, I
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don't tell people why they crash because I don't, I don't know
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why they crash, but I know I've, for me, I knew going out for the
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first round and I haven't ridden in six months and I and we
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erased in six months, and I was much less, you know, ridden, a
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motorcycle. And we were talked about this is
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like I knew I had to ease myself into that, you know, I'm saying,
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so I don't know how many riders try to ease themselves into it.
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Oh, oh. What the reason and But it was
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definitely a, I may be a lot of points at stake.
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Turn people trying to get them early or something, I don't
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know, I don't know. I think we got like, two races
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done and I mean they had they had the endurance race was
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later, so they had that. But outside of that like those
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like to race has done and and and it was a it was a it was a
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bad incident. One of the crash is so that took
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a lot of the took a little time and so forth.
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And then it was just all red flags after that and you know
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I'm saying so you know, it's you know, I just I say this because
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I don't want to like I am pointing fingers and telling
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people who can ride and who can't ride and all that, I just
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know it's like if it's my first time out, I'm going to warm up
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to it. Yeah, you know, I got my first,
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you know, we can I obviously didn't want to go straight to
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racing. So, Did a racer practice.
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So did a couple sessions on Friday, which we actually had
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good weather. It was high like 65.
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You know, the first session is always cold and I didn't, I
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didn't do that one. First of all, the whole weekend
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is always cold. It's loading baby, my mentality.
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When I went out there was to basically just stretch my body,
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you know, just getting off the bike, getting used to that again
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and getting up to speed. And we're practice times are
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really not that good but you know, I wanted to work on a few
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things and and see where I was at.
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Do you like calibrate myself like, you know, we have a turn
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where, you know, you go full full speed, you know, almost to
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120 and then it's a basically a wall.
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So you got brake hard and, and lean to the right.
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So my first couple laps I was overshooting that turn and I
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wasn't hitting the Apex. Like I wanted to write and I was
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like, oh yeah, see this is You know, so myself this is why you
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need the practice. Yeah, to get ready for race.
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We fortunately, we didn't have any major incidents think God.
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But you know we had a couple incidents with bikes you know,
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leaking. So they had to clean up.
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Yeah on the tracks. It was a lot of kitty litter but
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Saturday went. Well, there's maybe a couple
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incidents where, you know, as time goes by they just cut your
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laps right. Oh yeah but everyone got their
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races in so but I Stick around Sunday.
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I know that was few incidents Sunday but I'm not sure how that
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I heard was a lot of rain. Yeah, and then I started writing
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but yeah, It's Tricky with the weather.
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You know, you always let last year.
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I think, you know, for me, you know, whether the weather played
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a part in my championship last year or lack thereof in this,
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you know, it is what it is Jersey, same thing.
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You know, you know, I went to Jersey just passed.
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Again and and the same thing, you know, I lucked out because,
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you know, CMP and other tracks that I've ridden, when there's
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water on the ground. If it rained that morning and
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it's not as there's no rain but the but the track is wet.
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I'm going out on slicks, you know, I mean, I'm not sitting
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here saying I'm Jack Miller, let them not even trying can't say
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anything close to that. But you know when you go out,
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Out and wet conditions and you go out and Rain conditions, you
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got a good understanding and granted.
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I'm on the KTM rc390. I'm not on our six.
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My, I mean, I think, you know, I think last year I went out on
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slicks on, on my R6 though. It's, you know, if ever right
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for every Riders different. But if there's standing water,
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it's one thing. It depends on the track for
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sure. But, you know, I went out on
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slicks to hold, you know, the Friday to Saturday.
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And there was water on a track. You pick the bike up when you
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know if you don't feel good in that section or you just, you
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know, you get over this section that you don't feel confident as
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this how I look at it, but all this section, if it's wet, you
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know, I come off, the track, might might eyes are dry,
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they're not, they're not, they're not like damp.
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So another good thing is that, I mean, you've ridden bikes that
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has Electronics but I don't think there are six that we had
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as Electronics. We do like traction.
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All and all that. So we know a little bit more of
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the feel of a tire. So if you are going through a
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puddle, you know, like kind of what feeling you want it.
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Exactly. Welcome.
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And that's the thing. I mean, for my understanding, if
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you, if you're on rain tires, we should be raining, but standing
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water if not, it's like an intermediate Tire, you'd be on
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if it's, if it's standing water. But, you know, I went out, I
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went out in the morning session and it was colder in the morning
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and, you know, I Was you know the first lap I think my time
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and maybe lap I got quicker and now and you know I found up the
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sudden I was you know catching riders that will rains you know
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I'm saying? And so it was just like oh okay,
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I got some grip out here. You gotta meet and and shout out
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to Pirelli. I'm they're not a sponsor of
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anything that I'm doing and it's my it's my second round
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Pirellis. But yeah.
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I have no complaints about about about about it.
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And then I went to Jersey and Jersey was the same thing on
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Saturday. There's a lot of standing water,
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you know? And and I went out there on
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slicks on on, on, on Saturday, to my practice sessions on
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slicks, did my race is on slicks?
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I was, it was one of the few, it was in a few times, but, you
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know, I wonder both races on slicks and my first time, as an
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expert, you know I'm saying? You know, you know, you know, I
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mean listen. I never thought it would happen
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like that but it but it happened and then Sunday rain and I went
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out on my 2015 on rains because it was coming down and you know
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you know that made sense. You know I mean like I didn't
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say angle I'm going to go out there on on on on slicks and
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it's coming down but I think if it's not coming down and you're
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on slicks go out there and try you'll see really how much grip
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you really have you know. Yeah I mean I guess you just
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gotta When they just say, I'm gonna do it, I mean II when I
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rode in a race that it started raining, but I still have yet to
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choose to put the Slick, the rain tires on and go out there.
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Oh man, listen, no, it does. There's some grip to, there's a
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lot of grip, I'm wrong. Brandeis of, you know, I don't
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get around as a lot of people that Jack themselves up.
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There's a lot of proof is be with a race in the rain.
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They stay up most of the times. Yeah, I'm sure I can manage to,
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it's just All about the feel, I guess it's all about the field.
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So about the field and you're you know, as I say hand of God
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is here and the throttle to the rear tire, you know, saying the
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more in tune you are to it. You know, this is what you know,
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could be light on that entry and very like have a question.
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Jim was Jim mcconville there. No, he was not.
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Is he brings the rain, man? He brings the rain.
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He time he's racing is always raining and I he was not there,
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he was not there. He's you know, I hope he's not
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upset if I put this out there but he's racing where this year
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he's not doing CCS as for this year.
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So you know, shout out to him because he's holding it down and
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you know what it is it's you go out to any ride man you know,
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it's crazy so I'll you know, so yeah so these last few weeks and
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so I'm hitting head. Into pit in a couple of
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tomorrow, as of the recording, not necessarily of the errand,
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but a few days. But like I said, by the time
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this year will, I'll be enough. Um, I'll be in in pit, so that's
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going to be a new track for me. So that's gonna be interesting.
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New tracks. Always good.
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That's what I'm looking forward to this year.
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Yeah. Should be fun for you.
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Yeah, well, I hope so. I hope so, you know, I mean even
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better too. So, so again, the weather's
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getting better, you know, couple weeks out from the last time you
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been outside, the world is. So it's a less than a week for
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me. Just got a couple days yesterday
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but recovery yet, I'm not even, it doesn't matter anymore.
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Like I'm already working out. You know what I mean?
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Like, Honestly, it's like I don't even have time to say and
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go. Oh, I have time to be tired.
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Just like, Oh no. I got to turn around and I have
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to work like it's maybe everything but this Foundation
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is this always found. It does a foundation and there's
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always like a stepping stone right?
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And so I find it was one of those things where I got back
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and I knew I already like I had to start working out.
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Like it didn't cross my mind like, oh, I want to veg out for
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a day and a half or anything like that because I know I'm
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leaving I don't have to. I'm literally back for like two
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and a half days, three days. And then back on the road and
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I'm and, and it's racing. And then I got some training
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sessions after that. So honestly which is I'm just,
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I'm not complaining, but the next, you know, six seven days
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is going to be just, you know, crazy.
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I'm sure you're ready for it, that's why I use like I Gotta
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Get, Right. Yeah.
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I was like I gotta I gotta I gotta work out so you know, I
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mean it's like it's one of those things.
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Like now it seems like it's like in the past I would have just
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vegged out and it's like now you just got to like I gotta keep my
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level up because honestly it's like when I scmp when I looked
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at like the fast Riders and I look where I was, I was like all
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right, I'm seven seconds away from them dudes old women and I
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was like, in my mind, I was like, all right, I got seven
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seconds and granted. The weather was a play in this,
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in this round and I'm comfortable in the wet, like I'm
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super comfortable in the way. So, you know, it's kind of like,
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it's one of those deals where it's like, it's nice to, you
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know, get up front and and and I didn't think I would be there
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and it might be a fluke and we'll see what happened in.
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Pick us a new track, but at the same time, like, I feel, you
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know confidence. Yeah, I feel very comfortable on
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the KTM. Like I feel comfortable on it
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after after two rounds, you know, at this point you know,
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it's like you know and and the crazy part about it is my quick
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sisters in the work and some clutching up and clutching down.
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You know I'm saying, I'm not, I mean, I guess I probably could
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have made travel whatever but I it was, you know, just trying to
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sort out the weather and entire conditions and all that and a
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tie in the conditions. I just, you know, it was all up
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and down. So it's kind of like, okay. like
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when I get comfortable with all the thing working, you know, who
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knows what can happen. I feel like one of the new
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generations where I just jumped into the track with a quick
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shifter, like, what you ate, what you shift yourself?
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Yeah. Oh yeah, I could do it but you
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know, it's just like, yeah, that's too much work.
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Know it took a and that's a crazy part like, like, with all
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that because again, the same thing I'm used to up and down.
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Started a race is the only time I'm using the my hand is like,
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on a clutch. No I'm saying and and so like
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you know it's interesting how you know we overcome right?
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Yeah I'm saying it. Like I'm not gonna see him
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living like oh I knew this was gonna happen because trust me, I
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was like okay I'm seven seconds away shit you know saying like
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you know last year glad a couple of years ago.
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I 70 seconds away from the fast guy and it took me like you know
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them they have to season them the end of the season to catch
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him. All right, so, Who's on those
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challenges like okay, you know what I mean?
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And so to to to to see myself, you know, up front especially as
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an expert, right? Like, you know, is as an amateur
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is one thing, but as an expert is like a lot of fast people out
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there, you know, I mean, so and that equation is not working.
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Do you have to rev match now, right?
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No, I honestly wish the so, I mean, like you really don't have
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to, I mean, I know you might stay in the same gear for good
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time. Yeah.
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Yeah. So here's shift that much.
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So. So here's the crazy part, right?
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So I haven't done the 600-mile breaking on the bike yet.
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So at 6,000 RPM, my Reverend is just like change, change, change
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change. And and so it's one of those
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things where is feel, you know, I'm trying to feel where it
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before it it chops because if you have a KTM and some other
22:10
bikes you know, somebody's hit the rev limiter you can keep
22:12
going other bikes, hit the rev limiter and it just chops the
22:15
power. So it's kind of finding that
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field before I do that. So honestly I'm not even there
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yet, and that's the crazy part about it.
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So, I'm looking forward to the summer time because I think at
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the, by the time the summertime come, the bike will be dialed in
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and I'll feel whole. I would be racing for a little
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bit and I'll feel pretty good. You're going to have like a
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MotoGP season like week, to you, going to unlock the chassis and
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the ECU. Once I can get fast, you gotta
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be like yeah. But you listen man.
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Honestly you know it's crazy because you know, I've had
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Seasons you know, you know I've had I'm not Moby Delhi but I've
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had morbidly like Seasons. You know I'm saying, where he,
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obviously, he feels he could be, he's the world time.
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He's been a world champion. I'm not sitting here, you know,
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looking at the titles in that regard.
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But like it's one of those things where, you know, You can
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you'll have you, you can have some bad Seasons through
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injuries through outside life experiences.
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You know I'm saying? And and you know, I had from
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2016 to 20 1920 was with some dark times, you know?
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I mean so it's like you know to get on the other end before
23:41
that, you know, I my confidence was ridiculous, you know.
23:45
And then, you know, To ride and to, you know, you're out here
23:49
and you like it, you know, in your mind, you know, you you're
23:52
better then what your results are, you know I'm saying?
23:55
I know morbidly is better than what is results are.
23:57
I know, you know, I look you look at Alex Marquez when he was
24:01
on Honda right. His, he's a better Rider than
24:05
what did the results are? I'm not sitting here again, you
24:08
know, it wasn't a bike issue for me was just me.
24:11
You know I'm saying, where is Alex?
24:13
Marquez case it was a bike issue, as you see switch to
24:15
Ducati and And you see what he's doing, you know, I mean, so it's
24:19
like to be on the other side of that to, you know, to like you
24:23
know to like, you know, when Regional stuff and and and and
24:28
competing and and compete at a high level.
24:32
You know. It's crazy because you know, and
24:35
I'm not I don't every right I don't know if every Rider goes
24:37
through that because some don't, you know, I'm saying for sure,
24:42
but it's cool to be on the other side of that.
24:46
Right, see how it is. I know all round one, we had a
24:52
good luck, good amount of riders.
24:54
I'm not gonna lie. I mean, like every field that
24:58
was racing. Had a good amount of group of
25:01
bikes. I'm sure round to be a lot more
25:04
because for, I know that I had a lot of friends that didn't make
25:08
it to round one. I will listen, you know, Round
25:15
2. It's going to have a lot of
25:17
Ryder. I don't want to say a lot.
25:21
But you got to have some riders that haven't been at Loudon for
25:24
the first time and and and the experts you know, saying.
25:29
So I know for sure that they're kind of just going to CMP and
25:34
and I know right is a coming to coming to the March.
25:37
Let me around. And they going to race, the
25:40
classic tool. So a lot has changed, not a lot,
25:44
but allowed in the they got a new pattern going to be, haven't
25:49
been there yet. But there's a, there's a new
25:52
bike pattern to get onto the track whole new wave.
25:55
You can't just freelancing. Just get on, you know, the
25:58
quickest route to the track, you know.
26:00
Okay. Is it is a, there's a route to
26:02
get off and is about to get on now.
26:04
So, I'm trying to get everybody in line acclimated to that
26:09
acclimated to that. So, I guess when the classic
26:11
Um's is not chaos which I actually kind of like it the way
26:14
it is. So basically all the garages
26:17
have to be on your right. You can't ride by the media
26:20
center anymore, okay? An offense in the track is,
26:23
okay? So basically we're are padded
26:25
for is I basically being a left out of there.
26:28
Go to Howard like exiting track and take it.
26:31
Take a left. Okay, we're going to Tech, okay?
26:34
And then you go down on your right?
26:36
So that's how you want to up it a pit in.
26:38
I mean, Let It Go in. Yeah, hit it.
26:40
Go out. Everybody out.
26:41
Everyone picks. Go in that same direction.
26:43
Okay, so all the bikes you see going down.
26:45
Oh wow, oh wow, straight line and then coming off, basically,
26:49
you come off that way, but you stayed in the left.
26:51
Okay. And then you gotta go around
26:53
like you leave tag, okay? Then, so, it looks pretty cool.
26:57
So, I'm gonna, I'm gonna be a lot of free latest company,
27:01
like, what's going on their codes everywhere.
27:04
You know, I was going to use that analogy is like, you know,
27:06
somebody coming home from jail in the Situation's changed like
27:09
the new neighborhoods, but like I'm To get to the classic and be
27:13
like, things look different, right?
27:16
I haven't been here, know it, you know.
27:23
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the classic and and and And seeing
27:28
what happens, you know, overall I mean what I do I'm not racing
27:32
I'm gonna probably I'm gonna race it loud and but I'm not
27:35
gonna race. The classic.
27:36
The debt dash for cash. It did the big purse, the big
27:39
money. Yeah so it's pretty cool.
27:41
So they said that if anyone has space in the paddocks to kind of
27:44
make room for all the riders coming in because you know, that
27:49
they're not kicking out, kicking us out, you know, we were going
27:52
to be there. So really that's that's that's
27:54
how is that every tracks mean. It's just, that's that's what it
27:57
is. You know, but it was used.
28:00
Yeah. But other ride people know that
28:02
they know that they like it's no different.
28:05
We were going to keep in mind like, you know, you know Neymar
28:10
was lrs which is also part of CCS like two years ago, you know
28:15
I'm saying. So you know it's you know, it's
28:20
all love. I can't wait about to get round
28:23
to though. So yeah, two weeks.
28:26
Well yeah, a week and a half. Laughs.
28:27
Yeah, I'm going to miss round two which is, which is
28:30
unfortunate. I want to go, but, you know, the
28:33
schedule is just crazy, you know.
28:37
So it's so how was he like, so you know, how was your first
28:42
round, you know, have actor after having these time off and
28:46
you know, what is the competition?
28:48
Like, you know, what are your goal likes?
28:50
How, you know, you already your takeaways that when you after
28:55
you're leaving the track, you know?
28:57
Get you, we Probably decompress a little differently.
29:00
What are some of your takeaways from that?
29:03
I mean, a couple goals. I just want to stay in the teens
29:08
and hopefully, you know, get on the podium a couple times.
29:13
I told you, that's nice. So that's a couple of my regular
29:17
goes and just to stay competing every round.
29:20
If I can make it, you know, as far as how practice went, I
29:25
thought I felt actually felt really good in practice. - okay,
29:29
but when I looked at the times, like, on Saturday, when we use
29:32
like racing, when we had our transponders on, I looked at my
29:35
practice times, I'm like, I didn't what, and then as the
29:39
race came, you know, like it's like another slit another switch
29:43
for everybody but you know that's which turned on.
29:47
And and I'm my race Pace was like, 89 seconds faster than
29:51
practice it. And you know for first round, I
29:54
was pretty happy about that. Only did two races Saturday so I
30:01
did raise 5 and 14. 14 was the middleweight Grand Prix.
30:07
I was in the back of the pack. So each grid every time I went
30:11
out, I was basically either last or second to last, so I had to
30:15
find my way through the pack, right?
30:18
The middleweight Grand Prix and I got close to the front.
30:22
I think I was like in fifth or sixth and then I had quick
30:25
shifter issues in turn. I lost a few positions and yeah,
30:29
just just decided just to finish it and, you know, it was fun at
30:37
the end of the desktop. That's the biggest part is the
30:40
fun. I definitely had more fun on
30:43
Saturday. I mean, granted I won both
30:46
phrases so it's easier to finish fifth on Sunday and it was a
30:56
battle. And, you know, No.
30:57
I, you know what, I think my Takeaway on Sunday is, is
31:04
because is two different bikes, right from in my case, and
31:08
they're not exactly the same. So, you know, my feel on the
31:12
second bike was not the same for the first, which is something I
31:15
have to, you know, try to get as close to as the first and stuff
31:19
like that. But also at the same time, You
31:22
know, I'm, you know, I'm learning more and more to ride
31:26
around the problems of the bike and and my Takeaway on Sunday,
31:32
like I wasn't comfortable but it's not enough of a reason not
31:36
to try my best, you know? I mean and and that's my
31:40
takeaway for the next round. If my I'm not comfortable on the
31:42
bike, I still got to ride the bike to the best of what I can
31:45
do of all, what the bike can, give me or whatever the case may
31:49
be. Yeah.
31:51
So I did my oral change and it is a couple of things to the
31:55
bikes and Leisure was running. Right?
31:57
Yep. I'm a dick in the first place
31:59
for my race 50, nice. That's what's up.
32:02
Amateur heavyweight Supersport. Mmm, it wasn't a big field but
32:08
you know it's Road. Well, feel good for the first
32:10
race. So have a good takeaway that
32:13
just want to thank all the photographers, like sky-high.
32:16
See, Sam dry since Martin Hanlon.
32:22
Just the photos they put out and and and the footage that I
32:26
record, he just realize like certain things.
32:29
I just need to work on for the next round.
32:31
Like yeah. My body down a little bit more.
32:34
I feel like I'm standing up a little bit too much.
32:36
I know for sure. This is your first time out like
32:40
be perfect, but it's good to see that and something to work on
32:44
for the next round. Yeah.
32:52
Yes, sorry for the technical difficulties, but I'm not quite
32:58
sure where we left off for a little bit, but we're gonna
33:01
start, where we start. And, you know, we were talking
33:04
about just having time off on a bike and compensated, not having
33:08
everything worked with you wanted to work, which is, which
33:13
is a big deal. I understand I want to look at
33:16
look forward to give my body that up, you know, and it's it
33:23
coming off the bike more and stand back up.
33:27
Exactly for your wonderful, for around to work on that back to
33:32
where I was. Is this issue, says, you know,
33:37
gas on bike up, which is crazy. We don't have a little bit to
33:45
the MotoGP world superbike. It's been a little bit.
33:48
So, for us, because the Race season has started, and it's
33:54
hard to be in two places at one time.
33:57
We don't have been installed. We will talk about quarter, you
34:01
know, but we'll touch that a little bit because of Alex
34:03
trains you know shout out to him for winning on a different
34:09
manufacturer. Is not a lot of riders that come
34:12
into you know the top levels of any country sports or World
34:16
Sport and went on multiple manufacturers.
34:20
He shows that he's just still fighter Contender doesn't
34:25
matter. Would you put them on granite?
34:29
That is probably got a good setup, but still mean.
34:33
Yeah, I don't know if he got a good.
34:34
I don't know if you got a good setup, I was hearing that he had
34:37
a Marc. Marquez, is either setup or
34:40
mindset or parts, some like that he.
34:43
Yeah. I mean, he's also very
34:45
comfortable at Cota. Is one of his favorite I think
34:47
is one of his tractor, he does. Well, I'm his favorite, you
34:50
know, I mean, but I eat I'm saying, because the other Honda
34:52
Riders didn't do as well. No, that's why I say that.
34:56
That they don't say he did very well in the Sprint to start.
34:59
Yeah. Chasing down.
35:02
Peko. Yep.
35:04
And then the actual Grand Prix race, right?
35:07
And I will, if Cole didn't crash out, yeah, he might not have
35:10
won, but he still needs to be in the fight.
35:13
Yeah, that was tough to see that go to crash out.
35:19
I mean, I don't know what happened when that he's doing
35:23
the same thing every lap, you know, maybe you just I was just
35:27
trying to hit a little turbo pressure like a little more and
35:33
it's just frustrating to see if you see his his coach.
35:36
Right is mine. Yeah, I guess I could see that
35:42
it, you know, it's interesting that, you know, you know, you
35:46
got back. Oh yeah, the business.
35:48
Like he got my local marina. So you got a lot of the feet.
35:57
Even. Honestly more deadly than well,
36:01
but I wouldn't say that there's a lot of the VR 46 Academy
36:05
Riders there the, like, in the top 10 or lat, you know, which
36:11
is, which is crazy, right? And some of these Riders, you
36:17
know, it's your own mistakes. Why they're losing or they lose
36:25
an opportunity to win a race. Not even to say finish in the
36:28
top six or five, or whatever, the case may be, the losing the
36:31
opportunity to win the race. If, which is pretty insane, when
36:37
you think about, you know, All the riders in MotoGP mean the
36:44
competition. Level is so good.
36:45
Now I mean everyone makes a mistake every lap and sure like
36:50
mmm slightly. Yeah.
36:52
Yeah, it's so hard to be on the money, the pace they're running,
36:57
you know. And it's just the margins get
37:01
smaller because the competition is that much better, right?
37:05
So I mean, it's just, it's tough, they all make mistakes
37:10
going around. And each lap, but it's hard when
37:13
you actually leading the race and you know, you trying to set
37:16
the pace, it's like a mind game. You know, I don't know if you
37:20
want to like hold them up or take off more of them, right.
37:24
It's a lot of laps to put in know for sure.
37:28
Dude, there is. And, and speaking of that and
37:32
then they, you know, they get to her as that that's very weird
37:36
and & KCM like Brad Brenda is the The Sprint King right now?
37:42
Yeah. He says the toll for the
37:45
weekend, I feel, you know, Jeff Mills like, oh, yeah, I gotta
37:48
follow you mate. Yeah, and I find the one hand
37:51
that like, you know, KTM is a new Aprilia, you know.
37:57
I mean, even though I feel bad for all of error because he was
38:00
riding the heck out of it, I feel bad for the Allah's.
38:03
I feel bad for a leash, you know, I mean but when it's all
38:10
said and done, it's the ones that finish And you know KTM
38:17
Dani Pedrosa. Oh my goodness.
38:20
Little Samurai that guy man. this is a pleasure to see him
38:25
actually agree to participate because The only time I really
38:31
watched him is on Throwbacks today.
38:34
Like we go watch some vintage races like, oh, there's a
38:37
proposal while. He was really good writer, but
38:39
like to see him right now is like me watching, Tony Alias.
38:42
When he came to moto America, like I knew that he wrote in
38:45
MotoGP and he's a good Rider right there.
38:47
Good mode Americans. I'm like while Tony Lee's but
38:51
the siege of Pedrosa out there and listen this is no matter
38:56
what height you are, what size you are.
38:58
This is one Rider. That has bad men had so much bad
39:03
luck. If those are ride.
39:06
It was Charles Barkley will be Dani Pedrosa.
39:12
He lost the world title to so many riders he was running he
39:16
was runner-up in the backseat. No it's like other people taking
39:22
them out and he was injured and stuff like that and it you know
39:26
it like and I'll and that's for a lot of riders.
39:31
Right? Again I don't want to stay here
39:32
and be like because all of us you know we can always see him
39:34
cherry-pick to rewrite history. I'm not I'm not trying to say
39:37
that but you know Dan Dani Pedrosa has a special place in
39:42
my heart because like, he's just had so much.
39:46
He's a world title, you know? I mean, not in MotoGP, but the
39:50
lower classes, you know, three-time Moto World title
39:53
writer, right? So he's not like he's lacking
39:55
anything and all that. But when you talk about some bad
39:58
luck, you know, I mean I ride it it's just kind of like you know
40:03
you got Rossi that came around you had Mark has that come
40:05
around you know I'm saying they had Nicky Hayden, you know
40:09
saying you know He had these riders that just were, you know,
40:12
you had Lorenzo, you know, you had you had other and he was a
40:16
clean ride so like he he he's been taken out of the
40:20
championship. Championship Contender, right?
40:25
He's been taken out of that by other writers, you know I'm
40:28
saying and and and aggressiveness well no, he's
40:31
been hurt by you, you know, wish you know, shoulders in the
40:35
plate, you know, place in the shoulder.
40:37
I'll type of business and so you know he I don't want to say
40:41
Oliveira is like him but it's similar to that like, you know,
40:44
other Riders taking you out because we're Oliveira has two
40:46
riders that took him out and then he's been ruled out of
40:48
racers because of it, right? No fault of his own.
40:53
And, and that's kind of, you know, some of Dani Pedrosa.
40:56
But he's road with the but he's beat Rossi, he's beat Lorenzo,
41:02
he's beat these top writers, you know I'm saying, like he got the
41:08
accolades without the big, the big, the big thing, you know,
41:12
I'm saying, and and, and so it's good to see him at 37, come out
41:16
there and being in the top seven and not to mention that.
41:21
Keys. They came out and his aides in
41:24
and do what he did. So, tell a lie, she needs to
41:27
stay a few more years. Oh, for sure.
41:29
I hope a lace does Aprilia is an interest in beast and, you know,
41:38
because Elise is around Waypoint.
41:40
And when Pedrosa is around, and I'll show ya.
41:44
It's hard to when you're desperate.
41:51
It's hard to have patience and when you're desperate that's
41:56
when you need the most patients and whatever is going on in your
41:59
life. If you find yourself in a
42:01
situation where you feel desperate, you need to have the
42:04
most patients and you need to have the most thought because if
42:08
you just react it's going to be a disaster.
42:12
You know, I mean you have to move as if you're not desperate
42:15
and I think there's a section of KTM the section KTM KTM Aprilia,
42:24
the writing I think'll as if they're desperate and they don't
42:27
need to, they just need to just ride because it doesn't, it
42:32
doesn't matter what you do in life.
42:33
If you're desperate, you're not going to be committed.
42:36
You're not you're not going to be like locked in and I feel
42:38
like, you know, these, you know, I'm not sitting here saying you
42:43
don't want to be number one all the time, right?
42:47
But I feel like they're over riding their bikes and when I
42:53
say that and I say like vignola is and and Malaysia, special
42:58
late, I think Alicia's over riding the bike in and he just
43:02
needs to just relax and just enjoy the bike.
43:04
And I think he would be in the top five and I think if he's in
43:07
the top five for the whole season, he's a contender for the
43:10
whole the world title. I know it's still early in the
43:12
year. I mean it goes by pretty fast.
43:15
But like what did they do wrong from last year to this year?
43:18
I feel Like even a leash, I mean Maverick.
43:21
He was having much enjoyable time so far like going on their
43:25
period. Obviously it was like his New
43:27
Year from coming from Yamaha but right.
43:30
And then Elisha had a really good start to the air and kind
43:35
of deteriorated towards the end. But like I don't understand like
43:38
what direction do they like? Like, they didn't, I don't know.
43:43
They had really good start to be a last year.
43:45
I don't see that this year, all right?
43:47
Say like even the Ray's like Maverick didn't finish his last
43:52
lap. Like oh yeah well I mean in that
43:55
instance, the chain broke so he has no control over that.
43:58
It's no control, but years ain't but it's when it rains it.
44:02
Pours, exactly. You know it's like yeah like
44:05
wow, this had to feel too, you know.
44:07
Yeah, it got it. No, exactly.
44:10
So you know I think I think for a pro year I don't know this and
44:15
and I'm no expert. So you know, I mean I'm not
44:18
claiming To be, but I think that if they they have the bike, I
44:23
think they just need to have fun and bride at a, you know I'm
44:27
saying? Obviously set up and blah, blah
44:29
blah needs to be there. But I think at when the lights
44:32
are when when the when the lights are out, I think at that
44:37
point, it's about the fun. You still got to think.
44:40
And usually I do all the right things, but if you having fun,
44:43
you going to do all the right things and I think a perlier is
44:46
there it, is it I think they're there and they don't realize
44:50
that they're and, and I don't know, I'm not sitting here
44:53
saying, I know what they're thinking, but I don't know if
44:55
they were in for this big. Aha moment to say I'm there, but
44:58
they were there from last year. So honestly this year they just
45:02
need they just stand and points right now but I know it's not.
45:07
Yeah, but definitely it does matter points.
45:09
When you look at the weekend and you look at the laps there
45:13
there, you know, I'm saying. So I don't know if it's the
45:17
mechanic, I don't know if it's the is The people in the box
45:20
that whomever I don't know. It could be one of three people
45:23
whomever. Don't believe in a cause who
45:24
knows what it is. But they KTM believe they're
45:30
there. I don't think Aprilia believes
45:33
they're there. But KTM believes they're there
45:37
and I think Katie Ann was believing.
45:38
They were there before they were actually there.
45:41
So I think they believe they walked with that last year.
45:44
And I think Jack Miller is the is is the key to unlock in what
45:50
we're seeing right now. I think Dani Pedrosa gave them a
45:53
great, unbelievable leap but I think Jack Miller.
46:00
Put them. I mean it's closer to knock it
46:03
on ducati's door. See them in every race.
46:07
They're coming around the corner and the top pack.
46:11
Yeah. And I'm not just one of them
46:13
usually both, you know. Yeah.
46:15
So yeah. So I I do believe Aprilia and
46:19
and those boys need to believe need to know that they had only
46:22
for the believe at this point that you're there.
46:25
You just got to go out there and do it now.
46:28
It's couple things happen to us is one less race this year, too.
46:32
They took away the kaga sign or something like that.
46:37
Oh yeah. Yeah.
46:38
They might have taken away a weekend but I'll take it.
46:40
Yeah. But between the Sprints and all
46:42
that is still getting a racist. Oh yes.
46:44
All getting a racist but I think there's a one last spring, one
46:47
less. Yeah, one week.
46:50
And that makes sense. I'm and I think at some point it
46:54
becomes very difficult for a human being.
46:58
To play at a high level for a long period of time.
47:01
Still waiting to see this whole season to play out because like
47:06
that's a the load they just put on these Riders.
47:09
Yeah, even though it's exciting for the fans, you know, it is
47:12
very excited. You already see is a lot of
47:15
injuries already up into race for yeah.
47:19
You know. Very exciting.
47:20
So but it is it just bad like that.
47:22
The injuries are all crazy but again you got Dani Pedrosa
47:26
already coming at, you know. Yeah.
47:27
But you know I think that No, it's I'm not.
47:31
I'm on the outside. So I don't want to speak but the
47:34
injuries and all that, it it stems.
47:37
I think from having to take more risk than 80, than some of these
47:41
writers need to take. Yeah.
47:43
And and should take and but they have to take them because the
47:47
pressure is on them and they take them, and when it works
47:50
out, it's a beautiful thing. When it doesn't work out, you
47:55
know, you're doing Long, Lap, penalties and such And at their
47:59
door Marc, Marquez. He's out still and he has to get
48:03
tested for something because if make sure he's right or you can
48:06
try it again or something. No, it's interesting.
48:10
Very interesting times when you look at what's going on between
48:14
the Riders and such and in the public and you know the
48:18
organization that's trying to continue to make money and how
48:22
they how they how they are approaching it because you know,
48:26
it's it should be about the Riders and, and if somebody
48:33
writers, I don't, I don't know if they believe that.
48:40
I thought they were. I mean, I thought it was a
48:42
little pose. Some of them love to ride.
48:45
They want they were they were all for it.
48:47
Yeah. You know you heard some of the
48:48
Riders. They're like all this is BS for
48:52
Me and is a lot. I mean it should be a substitute
48:55
writer throughout the here like like like the NBA has you know
48:59
well it load management. Yeah.
49:01
I can't I can't do raise 14 sir. Yeah, I think the folks that can
49:06
afford the test Riders they can move the test Riders into
49:09
another's roles. I think for folks that can't
49:12
makes it very difficult which is interesting part.
49:15
So you know, we'll see what happens is going to be its
49:18
decision, still early and people got to stay healthy.
49:22
I think, Alex rains. Give Honda or Fighting Chance?
49:25
I think ATM got a fighting chance to call these obviously
49:29
have a fighting chance. I think, Yamahas in serious
49:33
trouble. Yep.
49:34
And I think me. Yeah, I think Joe and mirror.
49:40
I think, Joe and me and talking to her gah.
49:41
Me, and Marc Marquez out there. It's just, I think marquesan
49:46
Allen's and Alex friends. Give you a Maha, the best
49:49
possibility. And I'll be surprised that if
49:54
Alex friends is not a factory, Honda Rider when the contracts
49:58
and because he has a better result and then join me right
50:01
now. And I feel for Joe and mayor
50:04
because he got the I think he got the factory seat because he
50:08
won that world title. But if you look at the riders in
50:11
the last year and a half two years, Alex's is the better
50:15
writer and I love I love them all.
50:20
But You know, I'll try to look at different writing styles and
50:25
how people write it usually used to like never go down.
50:28
Yeah, he's nice. He's having no luck this year
50:31
and it is tricky because it takes a while to get used for
50:34
some of us. It takes a while to get used to
50:36
a new bike so Alex and was able to convert very quickly and he's
50:41
struggling and you know I feel for them because it's not easy
50:45
but that the the in at the top its let the top level, it is a
50:49
very Cutthroat sport. Yeah, and this is as far as like
50:54
a coda and her as it was a few incidents.
50:59
Don't know. We haven't talked about
51:00
penalties or anything like that. Oh, listen Peko, said something
51:05
good. He was like he just wants to be
51:07
consistent because he got a penalty as well at her ass mmm.
51:13
But back in Kota think. Jorge Martinez took out Alex
51:15
Marquez. Right.
51:17
He had a horrible weekend. Didn't finish the Sprint or the
51:20
Grand Prix. You know, this is going under
51:24
losing traction like morbid Ellie.
51:26
Didn't her as in the Sprint, which I didn't know that he got
51:30
a penalty for that until the race happened, but and I don't
51:34
believe that incident that Fabio did was I don't get.
51:37
It was just well yeah, he should deserve that.
51:41
I don't know if it's because who he is, right?
51:43
I will say this though, I'm on the fence.
51:45
I'm on the same side as Jack Miller.
51:47
I don't think after that crash, he should have been back in the
51:52
the race. Getting Fabio, I think.
51:55
I think he should have been back to her.
51:57
So I do agree with them. I've with Jack Miller on that.
52:00
If you check the press conference, you know, I mean
52:03
because it's one of those things like he was the cause of it and,
52:06
and kind of, you know, partially responsible for the red flag and
52:11
they, they decide that penalty before the restart.
52:17
Well, that's what know as far as allowing them to get back up
52:19
because you and this is the thing was new to me because
52:22
usually you'd have To get your bike to the pit.
52:24
Back to the paddock. Yeah.
52:25
Within a certain time. Yeah.
52:27
And and and not by, unless you getting your bike to the paddock
52:31
and I might be thinking the world superbike, but this is you
52:34
getting your bike to the paddock.
52:35
Not necessarily you getting back from jumping on you be bike.
52:38
Yeah, I know moto2. Like, if you crash, you have
52:41
five minutes to get back to the paddock with your bike, right?
52:44
We start otherwise you can't restart and I don't know if he's
52:46
right, has some of these Riders, got back to the paddock on their
52:49
bike, because if you look at some of the footage, it didn't
52:52
look like they jump back. The bike.
52:55
So but it is what it is. And and and that's when I think
52:59
that I said Jack, you know, we'll see what happens in.
53:03
I think they're in the French Grand Prix and X also happens
53:08
there in a couple weeks. Yeah.
53:10
Oh no. This is this is the season.
53:14
So we're going to wrap up soon. So you know we didn't talk about
53:17
world superbike yet but we will on the next episode.
53:21
What are you looking forward to to the next round?
53:23
Rounds that loud looking for good weather.
53:29
Sunshine birds chirping, right? 70 degrees.
53:33
Okay I'm just little Fogo weekend.
53:36
Yeah. Like your brother just want to
53:39
be consistent and like I said, I just want to little by little
53:44
improve on things. Like I want to get my body
53:47
better position off the bike first round.
53:50
Yeah. So That's about it and probably
53:54
competing like racing more, raise it to more.
53:58
Nice, see how it goes. But yeah, just want to have a
54:02
complete weekend, you know, have a good weather.
54:04
Okay. All the festivities.
54:06
Yep, cooking out. Well it Walmart I hope to I hope
54:12
the weather does hold up because that makes you makes a break
54:17
your weekend. Oh yeah.
54:18
You know it's like that when it's like so windy and you gotta
54:21
like Yeah, but buckets up and pull attend.
54:24
I like, I gotta focus on racing that.
54:26
Yeah, I know, it would continue with the wind, the wood up with
54:30
the weather is not easy. So, I haven't.
54:34
But yeah. You going in tomorrow or and we
54:38
can wait, is your goals for this weekend to learn the track and
54:42
see what happens. Nothing like a new package.
54:45
Yeah. Exactly.
54:45
You know saying, you know, Matrix plug me in but now I, you
54:50
know, I hope to just learn to track And I think I've learned
54:53
to track everything else would come, you know.
54:55
It's it is a, you know, I feel very, you know, I feel very good
54:59
on the bike which is a good feeling after a couple of
55:03
rounds, you know, even if I'm using clutch up and clutch down
55:06
so you know you know if I learned the track, you know,
55:11
we'll see what happens. Yeah it's a good time to get the
55:14
track map. Take notes as much as you can
55:16
because yeah, go back. Got that edge.
55:18
Exactly, you know I mean so yeah so we'll see what happens.
55:21
I definitely will. We will report on the, you know,
55:23
before ever cool thing. My name is x45 my name is t.j.
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It's a be forever. Cool podcast, peace.