flyin polack
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I bet Dungey will be back with Decoster and riding a KTM next year... Dungey has talent but Decoster makes good riders great with his mentoring.
Suzuki???? The one "mechanical" was a derailed chain due to a damaged chain guide after contact with another rider. Dude how many blown up Hondas have there been so far this season? Every year Honda has by far the most mechanical issues, but people still buy them and rave about their reliability.
I still don't think there was any type of engine failure on Dungey's bike. Bruce why would you say he DIDN'T run out of gas? The only other thing I could think of was some sort of electrical failure. Bike make no smoke, nothing, just quit. Windhams CRF was smokin' like Fidel Castro before he pulled off....
As for those Yamahas....Millsaps looks pretty darn good on his.
i can tell you that I would NOT be pushing that bike solo...at least assist by pushing the rear fender Goose! I can name a bunch of riders that would have thrown that bike down and spit on it....but not Dungey. He's classy like that. Thats a big reason why I like him so much.
Every race bike off the show room floor is reliable these days, I'd buy any one of them. General fan base think they are getting dungey's bike when they buy one...definitely not the case.
What MXA story did you have problems with?
On the "15 Things We Know About Freestone After The Fact," the opening paragraphs talks about all these mechanical issues we've been having. They weren't mechanical issues. The thrown chain in Supercross was a contact issue. The broken case in Daytona was a rock entering the sprocket. The mystery engine at Freestone was a fuel issue. I wasn't really happy about the way that was addressed. But I'll take that. When you say it's a mechanical issue, it implies that Goose isn't putting something together right, or that we have durability issue with our parts, but we don't.
On lap15 of 16 it came through the headphones that he was rolling to a stop, and we were just in disbelief. We went back and checked it and sure enough the fuel had vaporized, boiled, and that's what caused the bike to stop. Actually, Metty's bike ran out of gas from the podium to the truck after the second moto. So we were really bummed.
But, everything happens for a reason. I have larger tanks being made and we're looking at different options with our fuel mixture and things like that. That's usually how things go in racing. Things go wrong, and then you address it, and you don't have the issue again. That's where we are with this.