The classic bad ass motorcycle racer thread

dtrides

Well-known member
Barf Factory.....hmmm.
Should I post a picture of us huddled around the liquor table (featuring a commercial Margarita machine no less) late in eve at one our rallies?:rofl
We do talk racing quite a bit...maybe you could use those trips as a business expense for "Team Barf"?:teeth
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budman

General Menace
Staff member
Casey Stoner

Some people will argue that Casey Stoner is one of the best riders of all time. He did show ability to win with any bike and that makes Stoner a bad ass for sure. Seems the only thing that really held him back was his persona. He could push any bike past its limits and had a natural ability to adapt to a bike was for sure impressive. Stoner chose to retire when he could have no doubt won more championships and still shows speed as a high paid tester. Watching Casey was amazing much of the time.

Stoner started racing and winning young. As a dirt tracker in Austrailia he won 41 titles in the 50cc and 125cc classes on both 2 and 4 strokes. In 2000, at the age of 15 his supportive parents took him Europe to compete in the Spanish Aprilia 125 challenge . The next year he took part in the English and Spanish championships winning 3 races in each and finishing second in each. He made his debut in the World Championship, one in England and scoring his first points in Australia by finishing 12th.

In ’02 Stoner raced an Aprilia in the 250GP class and finished the year in 12th with a season best 5th place. He went back to the 125 paddock in 2003 ending the year in 8th with one victory at Valencia and multiple podiums. Joining KTM in ’04 Stoner finished 5th with a win in Malaysia and a handful or podiums. The following year he returned to Aprilia finishing the year second behind Dani Pedrosa with 5 wins and 5 additional podiums in the 250GPs.

2006 brought the fast lad from down under to MotoGP on a Honda RC211V. The rookie fell a lot in both practice and in the races but he still managed to finish the year a solid 8th. Then things would start to change and the biggest change was moving to Ducati which was really an unknown beast of a bike. The Ducati Marlboro team gave him the first Grand Prix of the season in Qatar on the newly reduced 800cc GP limited motor. He won again in Turkey , China , Catalonia and England. We got to see him win the USGP at Laguna in July, which had a lot of juice going on BARF. He went on to win again at Brno, Misano clinching the world championship with 3 races left at 21 years old. The same age as Marc Marquez and Freddie Spencer ( if you don’t count the days). He went on to win in at his home GP at the Phillip Island circuit and then again in Malaysia in what was a dominant performance on an unlikely bike.

In 2008 he was still on the Ducati Desmosedici winning the first ever night race for MotoGP in Qatar. Stoner struggled for the next 5 races before winning at Donington , Assen and Sachsenring . Injuries suffered in the German GP in a hail of rain left him unable to retain the title. The season meant we got to see epic battles with Valentino Rossi (pretty much known as the MotoGP GOAT) and when it came to the USGP we got a treat!! Stoner dominated every practice session, but Rossi managed to stay right with him in the race, taking the win with a famous cork screwing that also lit up BARF. Epic stuff! Brno and Misano had Stoner crashing while he was leading both. A practice crash in Misano left him with a fracture, but he still raced. I went to Indy for the inaugural Indy GP which took place in some of the most severe weather ever for a GP. I could not believe these guys were riding in what looked like a stream of water on every inch of pavement . Stoner took 4th and then he was quickly back on the podium in Motegi, but it was Rossi’s year and the title chase ended before the season. Stoner would still win at Phillip Island dominating from the green flag and he finished the season with another win at Valencia, his 6th of the year. After season surgery on the wrist meant a full return to health for 2009.

Casey’s fourth season in MotoGP started with victory in Qatar for the third year in a row, but it was his victory at Mugello that was epic for a Ducati, having been the first ever of the Bolognese house in the "home" circuit after 7 years of domination by Valentino Rossi . Stoner ended up getting sick and did not start the Czech Republic Grand Prix and missed the three following races with the illness that was a bit of a mystery. The Australian returned for the Grand Prix of Portugal , where he managed 2nd place. Once again he won the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island on his home track and repeated at Sepang . Valencia saw Stoner fall on the recon lap and at the end of the season he finished 4th.

The 2010 began with a pole at Qatar, but he crashed out of the lead. A fifth in Jerez left him lacking in points and the bad luck continued in Le Mans with another crash. He then won Aragon , Japan and Australia (fourth consecutive time after starting from pole position) and took second in the USGP and in Valencia he took second and then followed with podiums in Holland , Catalonia, Germany and Czech Republic . A crash in Malaysia on the first lap left him 4th again for the season. In July Ducati announced that with the last race of the 2010 championship the collaboration with Stoner is over. The same day, Honda announced that the Australian will be an official HRC pilot in 2011.

Now on the Honda Stoner started 2011 with a pole position and another victory in Qatar. In Jerez he nabbed the pole but his race ended with him on the ground due to an incident with Valentino Rossi. Portugal saw him on the pole again, but he only managed a third in the race. He won again at Le Mans, Barcelona and Silverstone and a second in Holland behind Ben Spies. Then a third in Italy and Germany put him in the title hunt. A win at Laguna and the Czech Republic was followed with another in Indy for his seventh victory of the season. His third at Misano was followed with another win in Aragon. In Japan he finished third again after starting from pole position. In Australia, on the day of his 26th birthday, he won again and for the second time became world champion with two races left. He went on to win again in Valencia after a dog fight with Ben Spies.

In 2012 he was still winning, including the USGP at Laguna, but announced he would retire after the season. Stoner won for the sixth consecutive year in Australia once again starting from pole position. After a qualifying crash in Indy he did not take part in the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic, San Marino and Aragon due to his right ankle . He still ended the season in 3rd place after his final GP podium in Valencia. Stoner was still in his prime and the retirement was for sure a big discussion topic on BARF, where he took some crap for sure. :laughing

In 2015 he signed to race in the 8 Hours of Suzuka for Honda. Early in the race while in first position, he crashed braking his scapula and tibia due to a malfunction to the accelerator found on his Honda CBR.

Since he has done testing for HRC, but rumors about him filling in have never come true. Stoner was certainly a talented and yet maligned racer. Whether you like him or not.. he was a bad ass.
 

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Johndicezx9

Rolls with it...
Stoner would wilt...

Hard to believe it's been 10 years (this July) since "The Pass"

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flying_hun

Adverse Selection
Gary Nixon. One of the baddest of the badasses. He and Aldana were really the only guys who could make the TriBSA triples work on the dirt.

Here he is showing how it's done on a Kawi triple.
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I've got an autographed pic of him on my wall.
 

firstbuell

GO! 04,16,23,31,64,69,95
Gary Nixon. One of the baddest of the badasses. He and Aldana were really the only guys who could make the TriBSA triples work on the dirt.

Here he is showing how it's done on a Kawi triple.
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I've got an autographed pic of him on my wall.


Those of us who watched & remember #9 may agree that Sammy Halbert (& mebbe Jeffrey Carver) have carried on Gary’s role of actively questioning AMA decisions in real time on race days

Don’t Tread On Me !!
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
Mick Doohan should get a little more love with the MotoGP series starting this weekend.


youtu.be/dg9d8dRVRK8

John brought him up here


There is no doubt a racer is a true bad ass when he wins 5 top level championships in a row!

From his profile on his home page: Mick Doohan was born in Brisbane, Australia (04.06.65) and began riding motorcycles in 1974 at the age of nine in Brisbane. Soon after he began competing in off-road events. His first notable result was finishing runner-up in the Queensland 10-12 years championship. The Doohan family moved to the Gold Coast, 80km south of Brisbane, in 1981, and Michael made his road racing debut in 1984 at Surfers Paradise Raceway, Australia at the age of 19 on a Yamaha RZ350.

In 1985 Doohan rode a Yamaha RZ500 to numerous outright and class wins, and in 1986-87 he was one of Australia's leading riders in the 250cc production class on a Yamaha TZR250. Doohan's first major career breakthrough was in mid-1987 when he was offered a guest ride on a Marlboro Yamaha Dealer Team FZR750 in an Australian Superbike Championship meeting at Winton, Victoria. He finished fifth.

Soon after Japanese Yamaha dealer Kouzou Morinaga invited Doohan to make his international debut in the 1987 Suzuka Eight-Hour event on a Super Angel Racing Yamaha FZR750. In August 1987 Doohan raced into the limelight by finishing third on the Super Angel Racing Yamaha FZR750 in the Japanese round of the Formula One TT World Championship at Sugo in Japan. By the end of 1987 Doohan had an impressive record of 26 wins from 57 starts in four years of road racing. Those performances led to Doohan securing a fulltime berth in the Marlboro Yamaha Dealer Team in 1988. He had spectacular success, winning 16 times from 33 starts in Australia and Japan on Yamaha Formula One and superbike four-stroke machines.

His most notable victories of 1988 were in the inaugural World Superbike Championship. He won the second heat of the Japanese round of the series at Sugo, and both heats in Australia at Oran Park.In Japan Doohan rode a factory Yamaha YZF750 Formula One machine to victory in the TBC Road Race at Sugo and the Mt Fuji Super Sprint. Not surprisingly, toward the end of 1988 Doohan fielded offers from Yamaha, Honda, and Suzuki 500cc grand prix teams who were keen to secure his services for the 1989 world championship.

Doohan eventually joined Rothmans Honda for his debut year (1989) in the 500cc world championship. His team-mates were world champions Wayne Gardner of Australia and Eddie Lawson of the United States. In 1989 Doohan finished ninth in the 500cc world championship. His best result was third in the West German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. He missed three races that year because of finger injuries.

Doohan maintained his improvement in 1990 and finished his second year of 500cc grand prix racing with third position in the world championship behind Americans Wayne Rainey (Marlboro Team Roberts Yamaha) and Kevin Schwantz (Lucky Strike Suzuki). The highlight of Doohan's 1990 campaign was his debut victory in the 500cc world championship in the Hungarian Grand Prix. He won by 25.442-seconds in what was his 26th 500cc start. Apart from winning in Hungary, Doohan had four other rostrum results in 1990 for top three finishes. He was second in the United States and Australia, and third in Italy and Austria.

Doohan confirmed his position among the top 500cc world championship riders in 1991 by finishing runner-up in the series behind Rainey. In 1991 Doohan had three 500cc grand prix victories, in Spain, Italy, and Austria. He finished on the rostrum 14 times from 15 starts in 1991, the most by any rider.
Click me to read more!
 

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Wayneb

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Nice another photo thread, I have not been to this site in awhile, I used to come for the GP threads but my ISP is so over subscribed that streaming video sucks now.

I miss being able to watch WSBK and MotoGP. Thankfully I will be getting Gigabit fiber in another year or so and will be able to subscribe to the races again.

Sorry about all the dead links in the USGP photo thread I started, Photobucket asked for way too much money so I deleted my account.
 

Wayneb

Well-known member
wow, awesome links Johndicezx9 ...
Photographer and BARFer, Mr. Wayne D. Baker! :hail

2007 BARF thread Old USGP Photos:
http://bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=208674

grr, photobucket ... :thumbdown

I need to correct this, from 1988-1990 I was just a monkey with a camera, 1991 a monkey with an autofocus camera and by 1993-1994 a monkey with a great camera and really nice lenses that I almost could use correctly.

Mike Doran is or at least was a member who was a real pro photographer back then, I was just a guy on vacation.

If my back and neck will let me spend a little time at the computer, I will try and put some the missing old race pics up on Flicker. I still suck at Photoshop and I have trouble with color.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139944061@N06/albums
 
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... my goodness, those were the days ... :thumbup

... Jamie James quietly picked up the
tab after having dinner with our group
of clubracers at Loudon, NH ... dang, must have been in 1988 ... :laughing

Fast by Ferracci, Vance&Hines, Smokin' Joe, Harley-Davidson, F-II ... :ride

... great pics! :party
 
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budman

General Menace
Staff member
The Belgian made the most of his 16 year GP career.
10 times World Champion
101 GP victories in total
14 out of 15 GPs won in the 2006 during his final season
He won world titles in 125/250/500cc
Only rider to become World Champion on all four Japanese manufacturers (Suzuki, Kawasaki, Honda and Yamaha).
5 times Belgian Sportsman of the year (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006, only surpassed by Eddy Merckx), plus a Lifetime Achievement award

Hope you bounce back Champ.
He is in a coma after catching malaria assumed from being at a charity race in Africa. Sucks.
 

Johndicezx9

Rolls with it...
Hope you bounce back Champ.
He is in a coma after catching malaria assumed from being at a charity race in Africa. Sucks.


Clicking on the link to your quote goes to the top post about Chris Carr, not Stefan Everts...

https://www.morebikes.co.uk/54959/legend-stefan-everts-seriously-ill-in-induced-coma/

At the end of last week, Everts reportedly fell ill upon return to his home in Belgium where Doctors admitted to hospital and put him in the coma. His condition is reported as stable.
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
Send me a link John.

Noticed a dead YouTube link for Mick.
Fixing this is important to me!
 
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