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Demetris

anyones guess on why that bike seized when it did?

Riding it like a 4-stroke and engine breaking as hard as he did coming into that corner as long and hard as he did kept pre-mix (when your not on the gas, the bike isn't getting fuel/oil) from lubricating the crank.

Do your breaking with the breaks and not the engine on these bikes.
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Charles Gallant

Looks like his crank blew up ?

Do my eyes deceive me or did he put it 1500rpm into the red on the downshift?

Bloody hell!
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one the down shift on the brakes means he doesn't have the throttle open, means no oil to the crank, means problems.
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Charles Gallant

Quick on the clutch for a decent save though.

But yea bad on the downshifts for a 2 stroke. Just hearing that engine rev so high and long with a closed throttle was painful.

You have to do it a bit, if you've got time to blip the throttle you're not trying hard enough. Mechanical sympathy after my Brands practice seize saw me being careful in (what remained of) practice. But on race day when the red light went out and Leigh made those 10 extra horses count on the drag to the first corner, forget it!

Most clips you see of on track 2 stroke action have some lack of concern for the life of the engine, all these guys are just letting it spin on the downchange;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed-GaGcMp2U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIpDy2B_pvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKpgAczN8c

And somebody hellishly quick round Mugello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYbWQuxNyo
that's within a couple of seconds of Lorenzo's outright 250 lap record, he's not got time to blink, let alone worry about crank life!
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fontyyy wrote:And somebody hellishly quick round Mugello

I recon that last one is a 500. He's touching 300kmh (180mph) at the end of the straight!
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Yep, it was discussed on the RGV forum, but Eurosport they didn't have that gear indicator back in 2001, the laptime is spot on for a 250 and it sounds nothing like a 500, it's more likely there's an error on the speed readout calculation, it'll just be a bit of Dorna kit.
Anyway even the 500's only pulled 280kph down the straight at Mugello. MotoGP bikes pull 310+ (and run 1.50 lap times), 250's about 260.

And you'd be horrified to know a 250 has been clocked at 173mph. Shanghai 2006, Roberto Locatelli hit 279.6kph through the speed trap, cover that clutch boy
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Thanks for riding tip Charles. I was thinking it was a cold seizure since his temp was a little low.
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Yes

Probably a cold seizure as the video shows he just got out on the track, plus he abuse it a bit to early

Geez That bloke was farkin Slow... Thing proberly got sick of bein ridin like a muppet

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I'm slow compared to everyone!
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I'm slow compared to everyone!

Who cares, as long as you are riding to your own limit, you have as much fun as the more experienced, maybe even more
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