Motorbike stuff

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• Colin Edwards jumps off his blazing Aprilia. This was at (iirc) Saschenring in 2003, during friday practice. They hit over 160mph down that (short) straight, and he probably was still well over the tonne when he jumped.
• Biaggi's victory wheelie at Brno, 1998. It was his first year of 500GPs, his second 500 win and he forgets he's on a 500! How did he save it?
• Animated GIF of Rossi's do-or-die pass on Sete on the very last corner of the last lap at the Jerez GP in 2005, a screencap from the video camera onboard Rossi's RCV211 showing how Sete injured his shoulder, and an another animated GIF of Sete and Rossi walking up the stairs to the podium with Sete rubbing his shoulder and Rossi trying and failing to stiffle his amusement.
• TV footage of that amazing last lap of Jerez GP, 2005, with Rossi fighting his hardest to keep his then slightly slower Yamaha ahead of Sete, they make contact twice. Breath taking stuff.
• Animated gif of a high-side
• Doohan gets his NSR500v4 completely sideways. You see this kind of thing with the newer four-stroke MotoGP bikes not infrequently, however:
  • Doohan is sliding it out on a two-stroke, with its far more vicious off/on power-band
  • They didn't have traction-control electronics back then
  Doohan is the guy who pioneered rear-wheel steering in GPs, and one of the few who actually did it routinely on two-strokes. The big-bang cranked engine was developed specifically for him (trading some peak horse-power for a slightly smoother and less-peaky powerband) by HRC to suit his "dirt track" style ;).
• Rossi shows off at Sepang. (pic from Crash.net, local archive copy). (And yes, that's a one-handed power-slide coming out of a corner at speed. Not "just" a burn-out at walking-pace.).
• That magic Honda moment where Dani Pedrosa torpedoed Nicki Hayden (local archive) at the 2006 Estoril GP.
• Elias beats Rossi by 0.002s at Estoril (Courtesy of Crash.net, local archive).
• Couple more nice Rossi pics:
  • blurry shot of Rossi at speed (local archive), looks like the tunnel at the Japanese grand prix. I don't know why, but I really like this poor quality picture (seems to be a screencap). It seems to convey the speed much better than some of the pin-sharp professional photographs. E.g. compare the previous to this sharper picture of Rossi tucked in at speed (local archive) - better picture, yet not as dramatic!
  • Rossi flies through air (local archive) after high-siding off his NSR500, at, I think possibly, Donnington.
  • Rossi does a stand-up wheelie on his HRC RCV-211 (local archive).
  • Excellent picture of the tyre damage on Rossi's bike at the 2006 Chinese GP.
  • Rossi brings home the bacon, sorry, chicken.
  • Rossi loses his first competitive world-championship (local archive). He's only ever lost before in seasons where he was learning a new class.
  • Rossi congratulates Hayden at Valencia (local archive).
• Hayden pics, from Crash.net
  • Good shot of Hayden at Estoril (local archive)
  • Hayden's leathers for the win-or-bust Valencia race (local)
  • Hayden spins it up at Valencia (local)
  • Dani Pedrosa congratulates Nicky on his championship victory (local)
  • Hayden arrives in pitlane as champion (local)
  • The new order, Hayden on track with Rossi, with his new #1, at the Valencia test session held the week after the final MotoGP race there.
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