MOTOGP » Stoner flattens Phillip Island.

No way a GS1000!!!! I used to have a GS850, the front disks were warped so under hard braking the front would chatter till it po'goed or if the tyres were grippy it would lock then unlock then lock up untll you stopped. The center stand was spectacular for grinding out and throwing huge sparkes at the riders behind you going around bends, the bike **** me in the end it too much maintance after a while lttle things like loosing power at night on the highway, blowing bulbs and fuses, for a while I took the muffler off and rode around on header alone that sounded sic....for miles around heheheh

My GS1000G..
She's no race bike.81 model..
But still a sweet Suzi..

My garage is quit empty, i'm retired riding motorbikes but had my fun
Amongst the ones that I did ride but didn't own the fastest must've been the Kawasaki 900R,
Honda VTR1000 and Suzuki GSX1100R which I rode at Assen (fast but a bit heavy),
apart from the aforementioned Ducati heaps of touringbikes like Gl1000, BMW boxers and K100
I had XT500. XT600Z offroads (Yamaha) and Kawasaki triple S2 350, (terrible machine),
rode XTZ 750, TT600 Yamaha's, Africatwin, KTM LC4
I was addicted to the offroads really, did a lot of travelling

Either Philips Island bumpier than ever or 800cc was too difficult to ride. May be both. From Stoner to the last man on the race, wobble here and there and riders work hard to make up the pace. Great ride by Stoner, Capirossi, Rossi, Pedrosa, Hayden and Barros. Sorry for Hayden, Honda is bad.

Stoner has suprised me again with soft front tire, doesn't hold him from lead & win. Rossi is fatter & heavier than his bike. No complaint, since he was deliver. Capirossi bring back the old days smooth riding and passing 2 riders at once on 1st turn was amazing.

TV shot has be close-up than ever, it shows most bikes make tire difficult to stay on grip.

Kudos Stoner! It's the rider, not the tire.

always been a rossi fan but you have to give it to stoner this year. as for dani,great rider that everyone thought would dominate on the 800 but while he beat stoner (not by much)in 250s,he doesn´t have stoner´s dirt-track background which brings the natural throttle control that roberts snr,spencer,lawson,rainey,schwantz, doohan have always had. while he has improved, he´ll never be the rider that stoner is in the wet and this is also the first year when stoner has had a true factory bike, apart from the ktm 125 when it was still in developement. as for all the crashes last year,he always needed a different front tyre construction but was realistically 8th on michelin´s priority list

330 km/h...No comment

stoner came into ducati as a definite #2 to loris in an italian team and ducati would have taken other riders before him if they had been available.loris had mostly dominated all his past team-mates- bayliss,checa,gibernau and stoner has been been the only one to turn the tables.you can blame fatherhood and other things for loris but he´s still a great rider and tough to beat.stoner´s used to pressure, he´s had the weight of his whole family on his shoulder´s since he was 14 when they sold everything and moved to england for his racing,at a time when he hadn´t even ridden a roadbike.you can´t beat rossi for showmanship and marketability but stoner has truly matched him on the track this year

He got the best package shoved under his *** that there is this year
this gave him the chance to use his massive talent to the fullest.

Can others do that too? We don't know.
Capirossi certainly can't (at the moment)
Can others? Maybe
Will we ever know? Probably not

Stoner will have to truly prove himself next year. it´ll be much more difficult; hard-man melandri on the same bike, rossi and yamaha will be severely pissed off and desperate to come-back as i suspect rossi may want to leave motogp only if he goes out as reigning champ having beaten the younger generation, and also HRC with dani will be seriously tough. michelin, after dominating for 15 years and only being challenged by rainey on dunlops in 91 and 93, will come back also in a big way. the funny thing is, if you take stoner out of the equation, michelin would have been on top again this year.

The beautiful thing is that you can't take Stoner out of the equasion!
He will be there next year and suppose he wins it then it will add to his credit
and suppose he wins it in 2009 again people will slowly start comparing him with Roberts SR, Rainey,
who won three as well.
We really don't know, we may have a real big one on our hands, quite exciting if u think of it
Remember how Rossi came? Three coloured millimetered hair, looking al ridiculous
Now he's the face of MotoGP, the status quo. And some want him out