2014 WSBK No-Spoiler Catch-All Thread

Two old guys on Italian bikes on the way to the nearest coffee shop

MB: I hear nowadays old guys take their Italian sportbikes to Starbucks to look cool no?
TB: that's cute

"Are we awesome?"
"Yeah, we're awesome."

Good out mate. Thanks a'Troy!

MB: Troy, we have been retired for years, and yet we are better paid and have more sponsors than most of the pretenders on the grid.

TB: Sounds about right. Let them eat cake.

Truth hurts.

I was hoping to see a wider variety of classes this year, such as Supermoto or Superkart. Those were lots of fun to watch. I would really love to see side car racing at Laguna.

So far, it looks like:

Pro SuperBike
Daytona SportBike
Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series

Troy Bayliss, Porsche Racer.......





Good thing he's a spray painter then....

That's in serious need of a polish.

Hayshed. They should have a museum of destroyed machinery there.

HOWEVER!

Maintaining legend status TB manages to thrash the youngun's. :huh

http://www.mcnews.com.au/troy-bayliss-wins-senior-dirt-track-championship/


LEGEND. (Official).

Yeah, that will buff right out.

PJ Jacobsen has been running near the front in his first WSS season. Motomatters posted a great interview with PJ that is very wide ranging in scope. He sounds like a pretty smart young man.

http://www.motomatters.com/interview/2014/06/09/america_s_next_world_champion_pj_jacobse.html

I remember going to hangout at a local Supermoto race back in 04 and this kid was tearing it up, PJ was so fast as a kid. Seems like a real nice guy, we have a lot of mutual friends and he was sponsored by my old employer.
I think he is good, but likely too late for MotoGP, maybe a WSS front-runner with a win here and there, and then WBK. But really doubt he'll make MotoGP, though hopefully I am proven wrong.

I am hoping he can get that win or two you mentioned. I think he could have a lot of success in world supers. I'd say this season is a success so far. He's been impressive enough to get a shot and I'm sure he'll fare better than Superglue did.

I am always baffled about SuperGlue, I find it hard to find someone so good at SS and was so bad on a WSBK, and pretty much a failure on Moto2. I thought he would be a threat for a world title in Moto 2 by the end of his second year (which he did not even make), and winning a race here and there on the tracks he knew the first year.
Either way I do watch every WSS and root for PJ.

Yakhnich motorsport and MV have broken up their realtionship as of now....Cluzel and Corti will ride MV's at Misano in an official MV factory team. Leonov will stay with Yakhnich.

OK. That's strange. I guess the vodka money ran out?

CycleWorld interview with Geoff May about pushing mud up hill...er...I mean the challenges the EBR team faces in WSBK. Its a good read.

http://www.cycleworld.com/2014/06/21/on-the-record-geoff-may/

Yea, it has to be incredibly frustrating for a good rider like Geoff (and Aaron) to be in this situation.

Erik had to know what kind of difficulty they'd face; maybe he underestimated it a little, but not by this much. The only plausible explanation I can come up with is they expected lousy results and chose to compete anyway (maybe as directed by Hero who's footing the bill). Meanwhile, back in Wisconsin, EBR is developing a new model specifically for WSBK competition that (hopefully) we'll see next year.