Yep pretty dissappointed... CE II on a BMW

 

wow.. did not know this... that totally blows.. fack yamaha, first Rossi, now Colin!??? wtf!!!

you do realize Lorenzo aint champ anymore dont yah!??? disappointing to say the least.!

 

I would have loved to see Colin douche the dookies with a CRT yamaha.

 

I'm sorry for going a little OT and must admit i don't know much about the new regulations in 2012 1000cc MotoGP but will they really be allowed to use an entire engine from YZF R1 in MotoGP now??

With the old regulations there where certain parts that had to be prototype stuff(?)

 

This year they are allowed to use production based motors in a prototype chassis.

 

I thought he was running Moto2 next year?

 

Edwards on a GP Spec BMW... Yeah, that sound like it's got 'fail' written all over it.

 

im sure it makes sense to someone at yamaha but it sure as hell dont make sense to me...

 

im a fan of colin. sorry to see he never got a motogp win before leaving. personally im looking forward to hopkins entering wsbk next year. he puts on a great race to watch.

 

Hoppy's a great talent and a decent rider. Colin's Mr consistency so we would have a yamaha underdog that would gauge the realistic abilities of the CRT teams. I'm surprised Dorna didn't lay it on the line and talk yamaha into it. Would have been a huge marketing success.

 

Maybe he got caught banging the boss's daughter?

 

That has actually been a done deal for quite some time.

http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=45945

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You might want to read the article, they pulled the carpet out from under him. He's on a suter/bmw now.

 

Why Colin didn't move over to a competitive bike in WSBK is beyond me. Two time champ returning? The battles would be epic.

Running around the back of the pack on a claimer? It's almost too tough to watch.

 

What's funny is when I was at his camp last month I asked him if he'd thought of going bask to WSBK. He said BMW offered him a shit-ton-o-money to ride for them. He said he turned them down because he didn't think the BMW could be competitive in WSBK and needed alot more development. He was counting on Forward running a Yamaha motor with a Tech3, Moriwaki or FTR chassis. This totally blows that Yamaha shut them down on a R1 WSBK motor. I'd think it would be a great marketing coup for Yamaha to show the world how competitive the x-plane production engine can be. Race on Sunday...sell on Monday. Can't happen now.

 

Come on Yamaha! First it was Michael Jordan, then Valentino Rossi, and Colin Edwards... Who's running the Public Relations machine over there. I'm almost ready to turn in my tuning forks.

 

I read about this yesterday and I was soooo disappointed to hear he is now going to BMW...I wanted to see what he could do with a production R1 engine and the claim rules...shame. :shake

 

Yeah, I'm thinking that suter is the only combo available this year.

 

Read this on MotoGP.com:
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/edwards+to+bmw+suter+for+2012

“At the beginning I just said we’d run a Yamaha engine and a Tech 3 chassis because that was my way of putting some pressure on some guys, and they obviously didn’t care what I thought because they said no!" joked Edwards.

“It will be a BMW/Suter which is what I signed for in the beginning, and I’m happy to be working with those guys,” he continued. “We’ll have to go out there and work and test. It’s probably not going to be competitive in the first race, maybe not in the last race, but we’ll work extremely hard to build it.”

Sounds like it was never going to happen and Yamaha just shot that idea down completely.

 

That's kind of shocking?

 

Jason, he knows well the engines Aprilia makes.... Remember the cube? the thing had too much HP for the chassis. he even said sometimes he was lucky to keep it on the track bc it had so much HP. he is a great test and develop rider and while it sucks to see him dropped like that he will do well no matter the circumstances.

 

I'd almost rather see him take Camier's RSV4 and win some races on it. So much talent out there and in WSBK it's all favorites. Look at Haga, he's got way more talent than bike and there are lesser riders finishing in front of him with less talent and more bike.

 

While he's an awesome development rider and one of my favorites all around, the reality is that he hasn't been competitive in a long time.

 

He's not on competitive equipment. I'm not saying he's an alien, but he's doing just fine.

 

He's not on competitive equipment.

And why do you think that's the case? :lol

 

You're right. That's absolutely comparing apples to apples.

 

Couple of 30 + riders, that's about the extent of the correlation. I feel for Rossi, he had no idea how bad it was.

 

:lol You're favoritism goggles are clouding your clarity.

 

I'm just upset they pull out of WSBK and don't capitalize on the talent. Yet CrutchSlow remains. laughable.

 

Can never understand manufacturers reasons, Colin got hosed by honda after he won them a f*ckin championship,but hey guys we got Spies to look forward to for a championship soon my guess is next year or 2013 !!!

 

Spies isn't performing at the expected level this year. I really though he would give JL a run this year, but he hasn't.

 

it took JL more than his rookie season and second year to get up to the alien speed level. Spies'll come around :fact: