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All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:01 pm
by Bydand
No im not talking about me but Valentino Rossi :biggrin2

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Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:20 pm
by CazB
Watched it this morning! Excellent he won! :worthy

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:35 pm
by rodsquad
What was the victory celebrations all about with the "AGV executive" and the trackside desk / helmet contract signing!?!

Crazy! But amusing...

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:23 pm
by Bydand
For every title that Rossi wins he is given a gold plated AGV.

:eek

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:26 pm
by steve
thw victory in japan must have been sweet for Valentino not only for winning his 8th title but because he was 5th after the 2nd corner on lap 1 an he went on to overpower everyone , vintage Rossi imho :2up


well done to him , he deserves it :freebird :cheers

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:32 pm
by shortassrider
Bydand wrote:No im not talking about me but Valentino Rossi :biggrin2

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NO WONDER HE WON, SO WOULD I WITH THAT DOG HANGING OFF MY A.SE :log :log :log :log

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:18 pm
by bR1an
No arguement here, the man is a genius. Huge respect. :cheers

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 10:10 pm
by grantwils
He is simply the greatest living motorcycle racer.

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:45 pm
by Borntobewild
Respect

gotta hand it to him he is brilliant.

:worthy

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:50 pm
by al
I could whupp his arse on a 400! :log

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:48 pm
by DarrenR
reckon i could take him on the Slug (pants)

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:23 pm
by al
he's just another R1 rider after all! :log

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:26 pm
by Bydand
Big Kneed Al (master of the emergency stop & "stand up" comedian) wrote:he's better than a TT rider after all! :log
:log :biggrin2

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:29 am
by Gazza
The thing that has always impressed me about Vale is that not only is he probably the greatest motorcyclist I've ever had the pleasure to watch, he's also fun and very rarely shows any malice when defeated. He has done no end of good for the sport overall, in the same way that Barry Sheene did a few decades ago.

We hear lots of stories about misery guts riders like Stoner and Pedrosa, but that's one of the reasons they are so good. Their whole being is about winning and they hate losing. Without that focus they wouldn't be so fast.

Somehow Rossi has manged to be both a great winner and a great loser.

I'm so glad he never went to F1. I hope he stays with MotoGP for many years as he will be a great loss when he leaves.

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:43 pm
by coullstar
Gazza wrote:The thing that has always impressed me about Vale is that not only is he probably the greatest motorcyclist I've ever had the pleasure to watch, he's also fun and very rarely shows any malice when defeated. He has done no end of good for the sport overall, in the same way that Barry Sheene did a few decades ago.

We hear lots of stories about misery guts riders like Stoner and Pedrosa, but that's one of the reasons they are so good. Their whole being is about winning and they hate losing. Without that focus they wouldn't be so fast.

Somehow Rossi has manged to be both a great winner and a great loser.

I'm so glad he never went to F1. I hope he stays with MotoGP for many years as he will be a great loss when he leaves.
True, I think the reason is he is just so gifted therefore he doesnt need to concentrate or train has hard as the others. I think he would be happy even if he was a scaffy.

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:24 pm
by meepmeep
Anybody else see him 'falling' off mid race :worthy I'm pretty sure only a very small percentage of todays riders could save that. Some boy :2up

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:35 pm
by D3LS M
meepmeep wrote:Anybody else see him 'falling' off mid race :worthy I'm pretty sure only a very small percentage of todays riders could save that. Some boy :2up

Yeah,and they all finished in the top ten in that race.

All credit should go to Casey for that race :2up

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:21 pm
by meepmeep
R2D2 wrote:
meepmeep wrote:Anybody else see him 'falling' off mid race :worthy I'm pretty sure only a very small percentage of todays riders could save that. Some boy :2up

Yeah,and they all finished in the top ten in that race.

All credit should go to Casey for that race :2up

If only Nicky could get a tyre :(

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:03 am
by Rick_1138
meepmeep wrote:Anybody else see him 'falling' off mid race :worthy I'm pretty sure only a very small percentage of todays riders could save that. Some boy :2up

Probably, Rossi, Edwards and Dovy (he is just nuts!!) are the only guys to catch falls like that in current lineup.

Racing gods.

JT was dong well to, but Dovitzioso's move on him and Jorge was amazing :eek

Re: All hail the king

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:26 pm
by Zax
Just watched the GP and it really was an entertaining race. :biggrin2

Things are going to be interesting for next season with the one tyre rule and several of the big teams shifting riders.

Nicky haden mentioned in the post race interview that it was his decision to go with the softer tyre against team / tyre people recomendations as he was not happy with the harder compound one . still an outstanding last 5 laps from all in the top 6