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Originally Posted by mrgrn

wait, are you for real?

i never said "GROSELY" inferior, you say i said that i said it made less power and was not as easy to ride so i would consider that a disadvantage, no Fair enough. You never said grossly underpowered but just underpowered. The Hondas were underpowered compared to the Ducatis but that wasn't a problem for the Hondas. I believe that the Yamahas were not as easy to ride as the Hondas but that does not in and of itself make them "inferior".

i can't post credible support as you have already dismissed it as hogwash and nanny panny because you feel the poeple testing, riding, writing about the bikes are not qualified to make a opinion you feel is justified What's so difficult to understand? I'll repeat an example I did before: the screamer two strokes were much more "difficult" to ride (and stay on) than the bikes fitted with big-bang motors. But for the rare, exceptional talent who could manage their unruly power output (e.g. Doohan) they were superior to the big bangers. But for the rest of the bike riding planet (i.e. all the other racers, ex-racers and journos of that era) the big bang bikes were much easier to go quicker on. I believe that for mere mortals, the M1 was knife edged and unforgiving but in the hands of someone like Rossi with his amazing feel for traction and throttle control, the Yamaha was anything but an inferior piece of machinery. If that wasn't the case, how come Rossi won the title in 2005 by a bigger margin than he ever had with a Honda? Can you at least try to answer some of my questions rather than retreat with weak cop outs?

you simplify, dismiss, and side step anything but saying it is not allowed and hogwash and then throw the far bone going fetch, silly really. ???????

you are a huge hicky fan and not a fan or rossi so there ain't no unbiased posts by you and i repectfully agree to disagree with you and will gladly post the year and mag name for the article/s for those who would really like to read themRead my posts and read your posts. I make an effort toward rational counterpoint and discourse. I have yet to see any evidence of the same in your lazy, broken responses which fail to address the questions/arguments posed to you.

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