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All the italian companies (Dainese, Alpinestar, Spidi and etc) all use leather produced in Italy by any one of the 8 tanneries. A company called Mastrotto (sp?) own 7 of these apparently.

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Be interesting to see what happens there, as it's been a loooong time since Ducati raced anything in the sbk class that wasn't running very after market pistions, valves, valve springs, cranks,...

The 2004 Ducati team reminds me of the Aspar team this year in the 125 class, they favoured Hector Faubel greatly - to the point where they weren't smiling when Gabor Talmacsi rode a great race to...

Leon Camier is riding for GSE on the Airwaves Ducati along side Shakey Byrne.

Stobart Honda are jumping up to WSBK. However, no riders listed for them yet (can you say Barros??)

The stig's biker cousin is called the Baron, lives in Nurburg and works for PB magazine ;)

Actually he won 2 - the 125cc and 250cc

So the question is can he come back??

Actually Ant West was on Chaz Davies old Aprilia earlier this season and consistently finished it 3-5 places ahead of where Chaz had been the year before.

Have to agree, it's a great track.

How does Ford relate to motorcycle racing?? ;)

If you nitpick, expect to be nitpicked in return

I like Toseland as a rider, but in the past few racers he's put some passes on people that were a bit too hard - Bayliss at Brands in race 1 and Haga this past weekend in both races (including...

I believe Ten kate get minimal (if any) support whatsoever from HRC. There is no HRC backed team in WSBK, and certainly not in the way that HM Plant receive massive backing from HRC and Honda UK, so...

I suspect it may have something to do with us Aussies loving to cheer for the underdog, and as you point out, Ant has suffered a lot of bad luck in terms of the rides he gets - which just adds to the...

Given the it appears that the 07 GSXR1000 is not yet fully up to speed (as shown in national level SBK competitions -
I know the Rizla Suzuki BSB team and the Yoshimura Suzuki Aus SBK team haven't...

Thanks for that post jackal. Interesting and informative. It's great to see Ant taking this so seriously - hopefully kawasaki (and other teams) take note of that when they consider who they sign...

hehe so I got the year wrong. 2005 was the year that Troy Corser blitzed everyone early on and had a 65+ point lead at one point, before Vermeulen started pegging him back.

I still think that...

Perhaps Ducati were abrupt in their dealings with Capirossi, but we only know his side of the story. If he was playing hard ball with them, or playing them against kawasaki and Suzuki, then it's...

I prefer awesome racing (eg Catalunya this year) that Valetino baiting (or boxing) mentally soggy european riders....

And after John's little move at turn 2 at Laguna, yes perhaps he's dangerous...

Yeah, inconsistency was Toselands' problem when he won the championship in 2005 for Ducati.... :rolleyes:

Parkes is _still_ inconsistent as is Karl Muggeridge - so I agree on those two (and this...

So you are saying that Capirossi had a large part in developing a bike that he can't ride???? :confused: That's just non-sensical.

Capirossi rode the bike once or twice before Stoner threw a leg...

Andrew Pitt has a pretty good relationship with Ten Kate and did a very good job subbing for Carpentier earlier in the season. Plus he had 2 pretty good seasons with Yamaha Italy. Possible

Rea...

Ten Kate demand their riders perform at their maximum every race. Have a look at how consistent Toseland has been and Vermeulen before him. Now look at Carpentier the past two years and Sofuglu...

Umm this is the guy that got suspended for 2 races back in 05 for punting d'Angelis off with a very, very, very, very optimistic move and this year he collides with Dovi and nearly wipes him out.
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Leon Camier seems to be doing very well - sitting sixth in the BSB right now on a privateer Honda and 5th in the Suzuka 8 hour this year.

Honda should be keeping an eye on him I reckon.

I saw over on rideontwo.com that someone has linked to an mcn article that says that Capirossi has signed with Suzuki!
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Yeah, whoever gets pole, comes in second :D