So... Ducati's pulling the plug on its factory team in WSBK... Is there a
connection between signing Rossi for motoGP and this (I suppose he's a very
expensive commodity), or do I have the wrong end of the stick?

Sad day for World Superbikes - not to mention Haga...

betty

"Diogenes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Nori-san
>
> =================
>
> Onya bike
>
> Gerry

I was thinking more affectionately than that. He's a bit
younger-brotherish...

betty

"bikerbetty" <bikerbettyatgmaildotcom> wrote in message
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> So... Ducati's pulling the plug on its factory team in WSBK... Is there a
> connection between signing Rossi for motoGP and this (I suppose he's a
> very expensive commodity), or do I have the wrong end of the stick?
>
> Sad day for World Superbikes - not to mention Haga...
>
> betty


I feel World Superbikes has lost it's way of late. The factory bikes now
days seem to be less based on the homoglation model with each passing year.
This years R1, for example, runs a fuel tank below the motor to aid in
lowering the center of gravity. Not aware of any special edition road
registerable R1 that has this feature.

How do I know this... Well I live next door to a fella whose girlfriend has
a mate who had a lover who lived near a lass who knew someone who once slept
with a girl whose sister held an umberlla in one of the support classes at
the World Supers at PI this year. So there

Superstock is much more faithfull to the original concept in my view.

Capt A. L.

"Diogenes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:39:24 +1000, "bikerbetty"
> <bikerbettyatgmaildotcom> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Diogenes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
>>>
>>> Nori-san
>
>>I was thinking more affectionately than that. He's a bit
>>younger-brotherish...
>
> I could have sworn chan was not Japanese, so off to Google I went.
> And promptly found out I was wrong.
>
> However... it seems to not be used for boys.
>
> "Chan is a diminutive suffix; it expresses that the speaker finds a
> person endearing. Thus, using chan with a superior's name would be
> condescending and rude. In general, chan is used for babies, young
> children, and teenage girls. It may also be used towards cute animals,
> lovers, close friends, or any youthful woman.
>
> "Although traditionally honorifics are not applied to oneself, some
> young women adopt the childish affectation of referring to themselves
> in the third person using chan. For example, a young woman named
> Kanako might call herself Kanako-chan rather than using a first person
> pronoun."
>
>
> =================
>
> Onya bike
>
> Gerry

If you insist.... where to, Nori-kun?

betty

On 2/09/2010 5:50 AM, bikerbetty wrote:
> So... Ducati's pulling the plug on its factory team in WSBK... Is there a
> connection between signing Rossi for motoGP and this (I suppose he's a very
> expensive commodity), or do I have the wrong end of the stick?
>
> Sad day for World Superbikes - not to mention Haga...
>
Yeah; Ducati getting Mister-Guaranteed-Headline Monkeyboy and pulling
back on the SBK is gonna' hurt the series they've been the back-bone of
for so long. (Backbone and *every other* bone for many years too!)
Aprilia and BMW have got deep pockets but it's gonna' be shaky unless
the MotoGP castaways Kawasaki and Suzuki start to get a bit more serious.
(Why on earth Suzuki persist in MotoGP where they're a laughing-stock
totally baffles me!)

Haga will find work (if he wants it).
--
Elsie.

On 2/09/2010 5:24 PM, Capt About Lunchtime wrote:

> I feel World Superbikes has lost it's way of late. The factory bikes now
> days seem to be less based on the homoglation model with each passing year.
> This years R1, for example, runs a fuel tank below the motor to aid in
> lowering the center of gravity. Not aware of any special edition road
> registerable R1 that has this feature.
>
> How do I know this... Well I live next door to a fella whose girlfriend has
> a mate who had a lover who lived near a lass who knew someone who once slept
> with a girl whose sister held an umberlla in one of the support classes at
> the World Supers at PI this year. So there
>
You're shittin' me. I reckon your fella's girlfriend's mate's lover's
neighbor's friend's root's sister's full of crap!

Fuel-tank below the donk doesn't sound real credible.
--
Elsie.

"Diogenes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 21:18:43 +1000, "bikerbetty"
> <bikerbettyatgmaildotcom> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Diogenes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
>>> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:39:24 +1000, "bikerbetty"
>>> <bikerbettyatgmaildotcom> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Diogenes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>>>news:(E-Mail Removed) m...
>>>>>
>>>>> Nori-san
>>>
>>>>I was thinking more affectionately than that. He's a bit
>>>>younger-brotherish...
>>>
>>> I could have sworn chan was not Japanese, so off to Google I went.
>>> And promptly found out I was wrong.
>>>
>>> However... it seems to not be used for boys.
>>>
>>> "Chan is a diminutive suffix; it expresses that the speaker finds a
>>> person endearing. Thus, using chan with a superior's name would be
>>> condescending and rude. In general, chan is used for babies, young
>>> children, and teenage girls. It may also be used towards cute animals,
>>> lovers, close friends, or any youthful woman.
>>>
>>> "Although traditionally honorifics are not applied to oneself, some
>>> young women adopt the childish affectation of referring to themselves
>>> in the third person using chan. For example, a young woman named
>>> Kanako might call herself Kanako-chan rather than using a first person
>>> pronoun."
>
>>If you insist.... where to, Nori-kun?
>
> Didn't mean to give you a hard time. :-)
>
> =================
>
> Onya bike
>
> Gerry

My Japanese is undoubtedly a little rusty since the year I spent there as a
schoolgirl in 1977. We used 'chan' sometimes for boys - younger ones - but
it's altogether possible that Little Foreign Me missed some kind of ironic
undertone. I hope Nori's not offended ;-) (coz of course he probably reads
aus.moto...)

betty

">
> Fuel-tank below the donk doesn't sound real credible.
> --
> Elsie.

Alas you got me there. It's actually under the seat behind the donk, sorta
squeezed between the rear hugger and the motor

http://www.sportrider.com/features/1...o_15.htmlStill searching for the homologation model with this featureSorry about the obvious error, fella next door isn't all too reliable onoccasion.Capt A. L.

>> Fuel-tank below the donk doesn't sound real credible.
>> --
>> Elsie.
>



Alas you got me there. It's actually under the seat behind the donk, sorta
squeezed between the rear hugger and the motor

http://www.sportrider.com/features/1...o_15.htmlStill searching for the homologation model with this featureSorry about theobvious error, fella next door isn't all too reliable onoccasion.Capt A. L.

> Probably lost in the translation from Italian to English. The fuel tank
> is behind the engine. This pic of Spies' WSBK R1 shows that there is all
> airbox where the tank cover is, and no fuel tank below the engine. The
> tank is under the rider seat. Almost impossible to see though.
> http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/PhotoG...aha_Static.jpg
>
> Nev..
> '08 DL1000K8


Try this one


http://www.sportrider.com/features/1.../photo_15.html




Capt A. L.