MAX BIAGGI/APRILIA RSV4 ONYA!

A little factory in Italy once again teaching the GIANT Japs how to
make a race winning motorcycle.

Over 330kmh and new and absolute race speed record for SBK production
based motorcycles

Great effort to all involved

 

Is he still around?

"If I had equal machinery I could beat Doohan."
"If I had equal machinery I could beat Rossi."

Still waiting Max...

 

last race I saw him in a few weeks ago, he was still running others off the
track
It's a wonder he hasn't been banned,. he has been running others off the
track for years and getting away with it

 

Wasn't it him years ago who didn't realize the race was over and
rear-ended another bike at race speed?

 

Yep, that was him, it was also him when he got to the finish line, thought
he would pop a wheelie and scraped the rear guard, luckily? for him, he
dropped the front down in time

 

James C wrote:
(about Biaggi)

Dunno. I remember Raymond Roche being torpedoed by (damn; who was that
Belgian) and of course Kevin Magee being hit by Bubba Shobert.

 

Yes. What has Max ever achieved, apart from 4 world championships and
42 GP victories, 13 in the major class? He won the first 500GP he
entered.

Theo

 

He won rounds 1 & 2 of WSBK this year, as well as both races of the Monza
round. He's currently 2nd in the standings. I suppose you might be able
to do that just by running the competition off the track, but I doubt it.

 

I thought that had already happened.

 

Still just a B grade class when compared to the old 500s. He could never
cut it at the top level despite his claims. So called superbikes are little
more than modified road bikes.

 

theo wrote:

Yeah, but, apart from that, what's he ever done?

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Ask the riders he has run off the track

 

Why don't we put you on a GP bike and find out!

ta mate


G-S

 

You and me both

Sure.

 

George, nobody gets to be world champ of damn near anything by being
"Mr.Nice Guy".

The era where that was possible has past many moons ago. :-|

regards,
CrazyCam

 

That was, kinda, my point.

Imagine the ignominy, with only four championships won, and finding
that, at some point, you are only one of the ten, or possibly twelve
best riders of race motorcycles, in the world...... and it's all down
hill from there.

I assume that IS a rhetorical question.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I have thought about that situation, and, while I'd certainly be a
mobile chicane, I'd be fairly confident that I'd be able to do a lap or
two without falling off.....albeit VERY slowly. ;-)

However, given a similar deal with F1 cars, I doubt seriously if I could
manage more than a couple of hundred metres, or two corners before
disaster would strike, and I reckon I know more about driving cars than
riding motorcycles. :-(

regards,
CrazyCam

 

"Mr. Nice Guy" was not the name that Wayne Gardner deserved when he was
leading at Philip Island and Mick Doohan was attempting to pass him on the
outside of a left hander,
Gardner kicked out at Doohan and the commentator at the time stated that
Gardner had kicked out at Doohan because he was claiming that this was his
(Gardner's) race so "get back, this is my race to win".

Wayne Gardner 18 GP wins
Mick Doohan 54 GP wins

 

The Aqueduct?


BTH

 

Actually, it's probably worse than that. A racing motorcycle is kind of
similar to a street bike, if you ignore the upside down gear shift
pattern and a few lumps of technology. An F1 car is *nothing* like a
street car - you'd probably stall at launch and have no clue how to
restart.