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The 2008 was not here... (http://www.crash.net/motorsport/motogp/news/157492-0/the_2008_was_not_here.html)

Friday, 23rd November 2007

It was a prototype 2008, not the 2008...

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Fujiwara, Sepang MotoGP Test November 2007

Although Yamaha referred to a 'new 2008 prototype M1' as being present at Sepang last week, the final version of the factory's 2008 bike is expected to be significantly different.

Both factory rider Jorge Lorenzo and Tech 3's Colin Edwards were invited to ride the '2008 prototype' at the Malaysian test, where it was being put through it paces by the Yamaha Test Team, but Lorenzo later said that it wasn't 'the 2008'.

Tech 3 team principal Herve Poncharal then clarified the situation:

"This is not the '08," Herve told Crash.net. "This is a prototype with some ideas of evolution, but it is absolutely not the '08 because the '08 does not exist yet.

"The Yamaha Test Team has had three different prototypes here, three different bikes, but the '08 is not ready. That is good because we want them to work on it right until January.

"The '08 will first come out here, at Sepang, on January 22."

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Can't wait for January then! :thumbup

so......is this what the new yamaha PORTO-TYPE is going to look like? :rofl :rofl

so......is this what the new yamaha PORTO-TYPE is going to look like? :rofl :rofl

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so......is this what the new yamaha PORTO-TYPE is going to look like? :rofl :rofl

:headdesk :lol


P.S. I added this smiley just for you... :headdesk :lol

i couldn't help it....:rofl

jesus christ mark, go to bed man. I'm up for the day already!

jesus christ mark, go to bed man. I'm up for the day already!

not even sleepy bro. i'm cursed. oncologist says the effects should start wearing off in about a month. will be nice to get normal sleep again. :headdesk

(thanks val...:lmao)

:lol :lmao

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By the way, is it just me or the ZX-RR looks very similar to the M1? :dunno

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By the way, is it just me or the ZX-RR looks very similar to the M1? :dunno



maybe....but john is still riding the 07 bike, nothing new, right?

maybe....but john is still riding the 07 bike, nothing new, right?

Yeah according to John, Kawi is not going to bring out a completely new ZX-RR... :corn

not even sleepy bro. i'm cursed. oncologist says the effects should start wearing off in about a month. will be nice to get normal sleep again. :headdesk

jeeeeez man, that's gotta suck.

yea, Kawasaki aren't bringing an all new bike, but so far John is really happy with the speed that new parts are getting to him at.

He asked for a new clutch at Valencia and they'd designed and built him one that did what he needed by the Sepang test, did exactly what he wanted it to do, so it's a good sign for him.

NOICE............

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If I was Yamaha, and my new bike wasn't as fast as the Ducati, I would keep calling it a prototype, too. If they don't, and say this is the 2008 bike, then Rossi is gonna be all over their ass. That bike's gonna be a "prototype" until they get it competitive.

If I was Yamaha, and my new bike wasn't as fast as the Ducati, I would keep calling it a prototype, too. If they don't, and say this is the 2008 bike, then Rossi is gonna be all over their ass. That bike's gonna be a "prototype" until they get it competitive.


So you are saying it will be a prototype for the next year or so :crash



:lol

Don't you know there's a lot of nervous people at Yamaha right now. They've "pre-set" themselves a public deadline of Sepang for having the 08 model out, because this one is only a "prototype". Now, it had better run like a raped ape or there's gonna be a lot of "DOH" faces.

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Sup Mang.

We getting the 08 M1's next year or what! :lol

Aren't technically all the bikes "prototypes"?