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You are an angry man Stan.... :lolno:

Has he with the largest pay check defected? This time not "for the challenge"

I would love to see Casey come back after his retirment :roll: and ride the Duc...

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It'll be ineresting to know what the package is as it's rumoured that Ducati was offering 70,000 EURO, has he gone for more money, or is it a chance for final glory before he retires?

My wife and I were discussing this this morning, and no matter if your a Rossi fan or not, he's still the Elvis of MotoGP, put him on a stage and they will come :!:
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Sorry Kiwi.................. Don't like ELVIS............. may even like Rossi less. Elvis couldn't sing and he DEFINITLY couldn't act. I mean shit..... he had to try and sing his lines.......


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We even made sticker that read "Loud Pipes save Elvis".......instead of "Loud piped save Lives"....{same leterting just diferent order}.................. but to no avail.
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Don't be dissin' Elvis now Tim, that ain't cool man!~ :(
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I would doubt it is about $$$ for Rossi, it would be about re inflating an ego as big as, well, Rossi's

"ambition bigger than talent", maybe Casey got it right

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Sorry Kiwi.................. Don't like ELVIS............. may even like Rossi less. Elvis couldn't sing and he DEFINITLY couldn't act. I mean shit..... he had to try and sing his lines.......
And yet his estate is still making millions every year, can't say I'm a great fan either, but like Elvis, Rossi is a draw card, even if he can't perform :D
“I venture not to cross that finish line in a neat, tidy well ordered bundle, but to slide across it sideways in a shower of spark’s, leaking oil, hissing steam shouting ..Geronimo !!!!! “

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Dang - he’s got a Triumph now :o

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kiwi60 wrote: Rossi is a draw card, even if he can't perform :D
Running over your best mates head is always worth a couple of tenths...

I haven't really ever liked Rossi, and he completely lost me when his mind games causing Sete Gibernau to retire from racing, Gibernau had the qualities of a decent human being.

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Come on now,

running over a guy's head while racing, I'm sure that anyone of us could be guilty of that, especially with machines in such close proximity of each other. Course, I never did see Simoncelli's final life ending race but......
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That was a bloody gutsy ride by Stoner today, and the reason he's a twice world champion - he doesn't give up. :clap:
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kiwi60 wrote:- he doesn't give up. :clap:
hate to break it to you Kiwi... He has!

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spook wrote:
kiwi60 wrote:- he doesn't give up. :clap:
hate to break it to you Kiwi... He has!
I don't consider retiring, giving up. Getting out when the getting is good and have $ in the bank? Why not? Now has time for his family that he didn't have growing up.
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FZRDude wrote:I don't consider retiring, giving up. Getting out when the getting is good and have $ in the bank? Why not? Now has time for his family that he didn't have growing up.
Absolutely... but all of his whining about how poorly done by he is-has been, and how shit the sport is counters all of that. I wish I had all he didn't have while he was growing up... Hang on a minute.... what was it that he didn't have just out of interest .... Casey should sue his parents for making him ride motorcycles every day rather than going to school... :lolno:

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He went to school, and rode motorcycles

why not give a few people a wack on the way out the door, some of the comments he has made are bang on the money

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Just got back from INDY yesterday. Not a great motorcycle spectators track but exciting either way.
Some real disappointments on crashes and people not making the grid or blowing up early in the race etc but pretty good weekend. :)
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TG1992FZR1000 wrote:Just got back from INDY yesterday.
I'm thinking about a trip over for Bonneville next year? Might see if I can do Laguna Seca, Bonneville and then Indy... last time I was in the States I stayed for two years... Probably won't happen, but... :crazy:

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spook wrote: I'm thinking about a trip over for Bonneville next year? Might see if I can do Laguna Seca, Bonneville and then Indy... last time I was in the States I stayed for two years... Probably won't happen, but... :crazy:
Been wanting to see MotoGP and Isle of Mann forever, friends can't seem to get their poop together, may have to go at it alone. I'm afraid I will like it in Europe too much and not want to go back to the US! :)
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Heading off to the island for a spot of Moto GP watching

GO CASEY

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Have fun Stan... :super-mad

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Pics or you didn't go!!!!!! LOL
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