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.
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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:
- Hayden pics, from Crash.net
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Motorbike section of my blog