Balance 101: Ok. Try and stay with me. I'm going 2 call the bike a triangle. The top of the triangle is the center of gravity (COG) of the bike. So somwhere around where the riders knee is. The bottom corners of the triangle are the front tire contact patch & the rear contact patch. Now let's say the COG at the top of the triangle is in the middle, this means the front & rear wheel has equal weight when the bike is stationary. Now if u want 2 place more weight on the rear then u need 2 move the rear contact patch towards the front & more under the COG. U can do this a few ways. Cont

U can also move the rider forward or reward but this is somthing that once u get him comfortable their is not much point stuffing with it. Now one thing I haven't told u about is when the bike is under acceleration or braking. Things start getting interesting with regard 2 weight balance. I might leave that 4 another night. (Depends how this goes over!).

By using a shorter swing arm, by taking a link out of the chain or by changing the gearbox so the rear sprocket is bigger. But there are other ways of putting more weight on the rear. Buy moving the front wheel contact patch forward by changing the adjustable front geometry. So picture the triangle now. Either way gives u more of the available weight on the rear tire. All this in reverse will put weight on the front tire. Are u still with me? ......hello....are u there........

"Surprisingly, Stoner did not win. As it was playing the race with Stoner ended the first round with nine-tenths of convenience, like a GP with no history. Instead, he has had some problems and so Lawrence has recovered, congratulations to Jorge because we believed, did not give up though at one point was even the third. It was a deserved victory. I'm going against the tide and say that disappointed Dovizioso after "together" in Lawrence comeback, he's happy to beat Stoner, the captain of the Repsol Honda, he might have groped to stay with the Yamaha rider and maybe beat him in the final. In other words, it is given too low a goal, its strategy has left me a little 'confused. Simoncelli also thought did better, although he did well to finish a race without problems, because these are the experiences that help to grow. Finishing a GP remaining close to Lorenzo and Dovizioso for a while ', struggling with Spies until the last corner, they'll do well, but they are a little' disappointed because he could do better than fifth. "

Yamaha has won the last two races, for a more competitive or to a different mentality of the drivers? The success of Spies at Assen may have uploaded Lorenzo?
"Lawrence has a charge and even regardless of his Assen could fight for victory if he had not fallen on the first lap. Jorge is good to start from scratch, maybe after a bad race has a winning mentality. Surely it is stimulated by the tremendous growth of Spies and later, when Ben will be more regular in its performance, you could find a situation such as that between Rossi and Lorenzo in the past. Yamaha has won the last two races a little 'surprise, because the Honda is encouraged: to win the title, Lorenzo must take advantage of the spaces left by Honda. And 'the only way to try to counter the rush of the title to Stoner "

We come to Ducati and Valentino in particular: as usual fatigue test, but then get the best possible result.
"Valentino has always been an animal on race, rather than by evidence. Also because this bike is very new, the GP11.1 is only his second Grand Prix, including in two weekends very troubled by the meteorological point of view, in which very little has been tried. Thus we arrive at the last to find a development acceptable and therefore belongs in the race that he can give the best, because the Desmosedici is a bit 'more to place on probation. Unfortunately - and this is an analysis, not a complaint - Rossi and Ducati, which at this time are a bit 'in trouble, are also victims of the regulation, which does not allow to test: so if you can not back recover. You just hope to have a stable situation from the beginning to the end of the season. In practice, the Ducati and Valentino now have to do some tests on Friday and Saturday, and then try to be in the best possible conditions on Sunday and this prolongs the recovery time. "

A comment on a statement of Valentino quite alarming: "By 1000 I traveled more slowly that Honda and Yamaha with 800". Definitely a bad signal in the future ...
"Having used this bike in the last two races has made ​​it clear to everyone - I hope and believe - that this can not be the bike 2012. Now made ​​with the 1000 time pass a little 'in the background: the Desmosedici, as it is now, is not sufficient nor with the engine 800, nor, I believe, with the 1000 to fight with others. So I think a good decision to have anticipated the time, because you can develop this project and have a more competitive bike next season. "

Abraham later accused Stoner of deliberately running into him but the Repsol Honda rider said: “I’m a little disappointed to be honest because I’ve been impressed with what he’s been doing this year.

And several months ago I read some statements on both the local press, which the mouth of Stoner.
The famous 18 seconds in which Burgess would have had to fix the Desmosedici. Burgess has never said.
The original interview in Burgess, and that 'the 19/ottobre of 2010, made ​​by Sport Rider as a scoop, an interview where he gives talks about the difficulties of some Burgess Ducati satellite, with problems of stability up front.
Burgess adds that of course without seeing the bike and puts his hand from the outside and not knowing the balance, are considerations of a person who sees eye to certain problems related to the handling of the Desmosedici, and never talk about the problems of adjusting to Desmo in 18 seconds .
What this says is actually translated into Italian: I see these things and I'm sure, thinking clearly, that if we had this problem with Rossi we would put in place in 80 seconds.
Burgess speaks with Rossi that if they had had these problems, they would be solved in 80 / 2, speaks of Yamaha never ducats, here is an extract from the original, from Sportrider
Which would Valentino be closer to?
“Difficult to say, without knowing where the weight is on the bike and how it behaves. But, without question, I don’t anticipate any major dramas. I can watch some of these lesser riders on the Ducatis and you can see that the bikes are, in my opinion, unsuitably set for what they want to try and do with them. I’m not saying anybody’s doing a bad job. I see these things wobbling around. When I think, clearly, if we had that issue with Valentino it’d be fixed in 80 seconds, but some riders don’t like the hardness of the bike, because they don’t get the feel. But then when they’re riding around and it’s too soft they’re not going forward either. So you’ve got to be able to create the feel with the hardness to avoid all that sloppiness. I don’t think there are any issues in the bike that are a big worry to me. I think the bike is just a tool to do your job. You sharpen the tool at the race track, you don’t build it. you should be able to adjust it to what Valentino wants. And until we’ve got a race or two under belts, we won’t really know how close we are or how much better we’ve made it. but if we can make it, as it stands here today, good for Valentino, then it’s probably not a bad bike. Then we just have to wait and see what happens

Now it is clear that many are poorly translated these statements, including those who reported Stoner certain phrases, as he erroneously that charge or Burgess and Rossi already denied these phrases, attributing them to any of his team, during the test Qatar.

Here the link to the original interview of Sport Rider.





I just tried to make a bit of clarity on the question 18 seconds, but it seems that in many lose much time trying to accuse Rossi and Burgess (including stoner) handling the matter of the Desmosedici.

Burgess never told desmo on 18 / 2, and this thing reminds me of the famous Gibernau claims to have made a welcome light on the track swept, even that was a bad interpretation or a real 'very own media lynching?

Even on that thing on the forum I reported the words of someone who was there at that time, and in any case it seems that most people call a lie becomes truth in the end '

We are in bad shape.