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Yeah, we will know soon enough. Bagnaia has his own history of making mistakes like that. But he has mostly learned his lesson, that is why he has two titles. But at the level they are riding at everyone makes at least some mistakes. You just can't go as fast as they do and not make at least the occasional mistake. The question this year likely will come down to who makes the fewest mistakes, more then who is the fastest. It should be fun to watch it unfold.

I do not disagree with your statement. He may have wanted to hammer in a statement to Bagnaia, he has had lots of experience when he was battling with Rossi, psychological warfare is unfortunately very important too, whether you think you are immune to it, or not. This is where the Valentino mentoring will help Francesco Bagnaia. While Bagnaia is possibly not as strong as Marquez in this department, he has the "Italian family" around him, which is something you have to live to understand. It is a bit patriarchal, but once you get it, you appreciate it. I lived for months with a Sicilian family, and felt adopted. Not anything I ever experienced with my own family. Anyway, Qatar is being built up in the same manner as the three first GPs, by putting Marquez at a disadvantage. He finished fourth last year, on a GP23 which was said to be really inferior to the GP24. We will know soon enough.

Have done cold water diving? I mean, dry suit? this one is the real ordeal! I trained to see the whales in Puerto Madryn; you know, no alcohol, healthy diet and the like. I was already a bit old for the effort. Then my company sent me to Kazakhstan with very short notice, I lost that opportunity. But if you are really game for it, this is probably one of the most memorable dive you could do. There are plenty of diving companies that propose it.

You don't have to ship it. Go get it !

Go up there and ride it down. It's less than Melbourne to Brisbane.

@activpop, the shipping might be more than i'm looking to spend...

@fastaussie I can do that, but they will have a bike attached to them.

will do. Cheers Tom.

I'm not sure I knew that, it is a long time ago. But as I mentioned further up, the NSX came out during the period when Honda engines where dominating Formula one, and Mr Senna, may he rest in peace, was a major factor in that.

I think that is the one that I have on mine. Having said that, mine has the long tank without the chin pad, so the ring doesn't have to sit as high. Nevertheless, I like the system, and have it on my Breva 750 as well. Good point. Only every other screw is long, and really goes into the body of the tank. So yes, I wouldn't load the ring up too much.

Yes to both points. I'm not that big, neither vertically nor horizontally. About 175 cm, and about 65 kg. Duckdiving the first two metres or so is an effort, after that I'm more or less neutral. All the diving I did was in Port Phillip bay, Wilson's Promontory, and somewhere on the lower east coast of Australia. Water temperature between 16 and 18°c, so 7mm wet-suit, bouancy vest and weights. I can imagine that, even in tropical waters, maybe a 3mm suit would be good, although I heard from diving colleagues that one can dive the Great Barrier Reef in a lycra suit. Whatever, weights might help, maybe only one, and maybe a suit. I had a slightly nasty experience during a holiday on Sardinia. Diving without a snorkel but with fins, I went down, down a bit more, saw something interesting and down a bit more, then realised I needed to breathe soon. I had "forgotten" that I wasn't scuba diving, and went too deep. I only just made it back up before the urge to breathe became uncontrollable.

@Tomchri, @activpop, if you gentlemen decide to ditch your lame ti pipes, please let me know...

righteous @gstallons? @audiomick, the original NSX smashed the Supercar order in its day. faster around the track than anything else. Dodge Vipers, any Ferrari or Lamborghini, and the Corvette ZR1. even though the ZR1 made an additional 130 horsepower and heaps more torque. as i'm sure you know, a certain Ayrton Senna helped develop and fine tune the chassis...

His voice is still smooth

I've never been a fan of these tank bag solutions on a plastic fuel tank. Of the six screw positions on the std tank cap only three hold the cap assy to the plastic tank via 5mm bolts. You are relying on 5mm bolts threaded into inserts moulded into plastic. In a perfect world it's probably going to be ok but I wouldn't be comfortable with it myself unless it was a very modest and low tank bag without any real weight in it. Phil

This thread covers some solutions tried by others. In particular, this tank ring option from Hepco & Becker mounts to the tank ring while accommodating the height of the chin pad. Perhaps not the most elegant solution, but at least its an option...

They seem to specialize in hard acts to follow- the drummer is even more impressive here, I think- Mom and Dad are in. Their ABBA cover is pretty amazing too, absent male voices.

I had to go back and watch twice after realizing towards the end that the lead guitar had completely lost the camera and fell into herself. That was about 2:30 around the organ solo. She started out 'acting' for the video, and while comptent she really lit it up in the second half.

Good point. Though when staying submerged even in most tropical waters, the energy gets sapped fast to where i can get cold. But that’s where scuba diving, where slow and easy movements are name of the game, whereas with no weight belt with snuba I’ll bet the extra work to control buoyancy would keep the blood pumping more, and be warmer.

I seem to recall there are some tank bag mounting rings that accommodate the height of the chin pad. Perhaps someone here remembers where to find that tread?

Remember good old Archimedes? If you displace a large volume of water, which unfortunately is the case for some of us , combined with sea water buoyancy, a few weights may help you to stay down where you want to be... I remember my dives in the red sea, where the water is extremely warm and salty, it was always a pain to stay level at shallow depths. I had to keep my lungs as empty as possible to avoid surfacing... the problem is less accute when you start getting down. I did a lot of snorkelling in Egypt, because you really did not need to go down to be in exctasy with the beauty and the fishes literally eating from your hand. I wish I had the Airbuddy system then..

Its working as it should again.

Thanks for that photo @Lucky Phil, as that now disabuses me of the notion that the Scura piece is lower than the OEM pad on my greenie... As @docc rightfully guessed, I am looking to achieve a "level playing field" with the top of the fuel tank. Less for aesthetics than to accommodate a small tank-ring-mounted tank bag. The thickness of the OEM pad gets in the way. Also @docc, regarding the GB500, that little brat is a ton of fun! (as you well know!)

Just to to complete the confusion, today she fired right up with the sidestand down like Phil said. Hmmm, will see. Cheers Tom. Sent fra min SM-S906B via Tapatalk

Not that relevant if you are diving where you don't need a wet-suit, if I recall correctly. It's a long time ago...