The END is near....

2,600 million tonnes hitting the earth does not sound good to me,even if it
is a direct hit on the hahahonda Nagoya main plant

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/World/story_51450.asp

March 21 2014 and counting......

CDIHL (Hail Mary......)

 

That's still worse than Tatts odds,and people are winning that every single
week

That's next year i expect,still 2nd in the constructors first year out and a
win and plenty of podiums is not a bad first season effort,another strong
showing this weekend from the Ducati pair for sure,the race is on between
them to finish first rider

Only a matter of time that Ducati beat hahahaonda as they have overall in
the SBK

CDIHL

 

No point giving NeedAnotherSevenAstronauts a call they cannot even keep the
bloody Shuttle airborne,besides they wont be able to film a landing on this
one in Hollywood

No, it needs a almighty big Bomb fired into it

CDIHL

 

Well the Mayan calender supposedly ends (along with this phase in the
earth's cycle of life) in December 1012.

So it's out by a year or two.

;-)

Dale Porter

 

Errr.....I meant 2012

Dale Porter

 

Phew! For a moment there I thought this thread had nothing to do with
motorcycles..

 

"Bomb"---sounds like "bum"....


Postman Pat

 

I read the topic and thought for one excellent moment you were leaving
what a disappointment.
but yu are always wrong Hatz
here's a reminder.
"Honda will not beat ducati in wsbk
Bayliss will be world champ in wsbk
Aprilia will romp it in motogp
Liberals will win next state election"
I feel quite secure..

 

With any luck it'll jackpot a couple of times, and when it
finally goes off there'll be nothing left but cockroaches,
CX500s and Hatz.

-----sharks

 

Huh? 1988 back before Ducati ever ran a works team?!!?
Big effin'!
Clem

 

honda came out and beat ducati in their first go at wsbk. the same with
their new vtwin. 'nuff said.

 

Not what you were saying months ago...

 

What did us New South Welshmen do to deserve that!!

 

That's still substantially longer than the Maya themselves lasted!


BTH

 

i won't get into the politics, but i don't think the honda entry was ever a
full factory effort ('88). it was the superbike in its puriest form before
factory teams started to get involved. sure honda was looking at it with
interest and gave little support where merkel needed (from what i read
anyway), but i don't think they were ever serious. bimota (who ran a ducati
engine?) was serious though.

 

What you say is true (except Bimota ran Yammie engines back then) but I can't remember Ducati being any more
serious than Honda in '88.
Did anyone even run the old 851?
I can't remember Ducati getting into it until Roche on the 888 in the nineties...
[wracks brain]
I think they did half a season on the 851 in 1989 with Marco Lucchinelli...

Ha ha; Did Ducati beat Honda in THEIR first full go at wsbk in 1990?!!?
Clem

What you say is true (except Bimota ran Yammie engines back then) but I can't remember Ducati being any more
serious than Honda in '88.
Did anyone even run the old 851?
I can't remember Ducati getting into it until Roche on the 888 in the nineties...

Ha ha; Did Ducati

 

can't remember Ducati being any more

and exactly that. if it's just down to purely the motorcycle (and possibly
the rider too), the honda was better.

Funny that you've mentioned that year because Merkel was pretty furious that
Honda didn't bother to lend a hand and that got him real mad. I think Honda
was more or less didn't show much interest until '94 (500 gp was more
important to them i guess) with the rc45. They had the RVF or whatever prior
to this but I don't think that was eligable under the wsbk rule. Nothing
really to marvel about with a factory beating a semi works team. Bt all
credit to ducati for the 916 series, came out and won it in their first
year. To bad that it didn't quite achieve its ultimate design goal as an
endurance racer (i know.. cheap shot). An it's ashame that sir Carl Forgarty
couldn't achieve the same dominance on the RC45, didn't take him long to
duck his tail and head back to the luxury of the vtwin advantage eh?

But Honda proved a few points or so when they beat Ducati with their own
vtwin (dominated from the very 1st round, '01 was probably a bad year due to
Honda's focus on the rcv project). I mean face it, Ducati had how many years
under their belt with the vtwin? And it's pretty embaressing to brag about
Ducati's current motoGP achievements. Honda only had their rcv racing for
only 2 seasons (incld this year) and the best Ducati could do was playing
2nd fiddle or as mobile chicane for Rossi and Sete (and occasionally Max).
The win in Catayluna was because of Rossi's arrogance. But I won't take the
credit away from Ducati, they make pretty looking bikes.

can't remember Ducati being any more