MotoGP (no spoiler)

OK, as top 3 seems to be order of the day, here's my guess.

Melandri
Rossi
Capirossi

 

Maybe. He's very, very good, but a sparkling debut does not guarantee
a world championship. See Biaggi and Kocinski for examples.[/QUOTE]

True enough. A lad worth watching, anyway.

 

I was cheering on for him win. I reckon after that effort he really
deserved it.

 

And if Suzuki were to fit some customer Honda V5 engines to their
bikes then really watch them go.

 

It's going to become more common as bikes get smaller and light I
reckon.

I mean, you could have someone as good as rider as Pedrosa, but if
he's 6 foot 3 and 15 stone like me, he ain't going to win GPs simply
because of the size of the bike and the affect his size has on it.

Jockeys are the best analogy I can think of.

 

Think of it this way, UKRM now has it's own Statler & Waldorf.

 

See here for when the racing is on:-

http://groobster.com/motorsport/

and here for the BBC coverage of MotoGP (no 125cc / 250cc coverage):-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/4805050.stm

 

It's been that way for years, too. Several times I've posted a comment
only to find that someone else has posted the same thing almost word for
word. Often, spookily, at the same time.
--
Dave
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for your reading pleasure.
Folding@Home Team UKRM
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957

 

What do you mean "now"? We've had them for bloody ages. We've also had
Hinge and Bracket (Platy and WUN) [1] for ages too.

[1] sorry chaps but it's your late night posting exchanges that created
that image.

 

Heh, thanks for sharing that with us a while back. Shortly afterwards I
called in to Clay Cross Powersports and the parts monkies were giving
the girl on service reception a bit of a hard time, so I likened them
to Hinge and Bracket. She collapsed in fits of laughter, whilst
pointing at them. Made her day it did.

 

Hinge and Brackett? Oh dear.

Nigel, old boy? We're going to have to crank up the campness a bit.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

<rushes out to dye tent pink>

Whatever you say, luvvy.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Not necessarily - you could always base yourselves on the Kenny Everett
and Billy Connolly spoof of H&B that used to be on KE's telly show.

 

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ukrmplatypus/detail?.dir=fabc&.dnm=d716.jpg&.src=ph

 

Conversation with son on being shown the above with the URL covered
over...

"Want to see something disturbing?"
"Is it Dad?"
"NO! It is someone's father though"
"Is it grandad?"
"There's a bike in it" [1]
"Platy. MOTHER OF CHRIST"

A voice from the sidelines..

"No, he's father of the antichrist"

[1] my dad's blind, come to think of it it hasn't stopped him jumping
out of planes, riding the fastest rollercoasters he can find and
driving double deckers, so not quite as daft a question as I first
thought.

 

"The Monotreme exists to disabuse the faithful."

 

I'm not usually, but for the rest of the season I shall be praying for
Rossi to eat gravel every outing [1].

Pedrosa, Hayden, Capirossi, Melandri, any of them will do. Just not that
monkey-faced bugger on the yellow Yamaha at 8/11.

[1] Hurrah for online betting. It's like gambling with monopoly money,
but more expensive.

 

Every time that photo pops up, I find it nigh-on impossible to reconcile
against the doddery old arm-in-a-sling Dnepr-riding man we know and
love.

Come on, be honest, it's Cat Stevens, isn't it.

 

I dunno, last season I found myself chuckling out loud (if not hooting
with joy) each time Gibernau took a detour via the Weston beach race.
It's much the same thing, albeit with 30 whole quid [1] riding on the
outcome.

[1] First rule, obv, being don't bet that which you can't afford to
lose. But if Pedrosa comes through by some minor miracle, the milky
bars are on me.