Rumor in the pits these days is that Marcus may well be riding a RM125 next season.... Now aparently, despite the excellent handling of the suzuki chassis and the high revving rm motor, the lure of working with the Showa suspension components is what convinced him to sigh on the yellow bike; other rumors floating around had marcus quoted as saying he rode the 03 rm125 and was happy with the suspension as stock! :eek:
So, here is my poll: how long will he last before he takes his new suspension apart?
He will ride it stock for awhile, until he reaches his best setup, then he will go inside to play. Within the first month is my guess. If he doesn't ride it stock he won't know what improvements he made to it.
One thing is for sure though, he will make improvements to it, one way or another.
According to my infos directly from KTM Austria they hired him to develop the PDS-replacement all-new KTM linkage. To keep everything secret the bike will be yellow. Therefor my vote goes for Marcus on KTM again ;-)
Marcus dear buddy , they know about baby RC . Your as bad as me but nobody will teach me and you do not know who is Steve Clitheroe.How did you like the 150 kit and how did you do in the open class dear buddy ?
I will be amazed if it lasts a week before it comes to bits-if its like the 03 the forks were totally racable but the shock was stiff-it had something like 13 44mm shims in the LSC stack-way too much for little me.
13 shims of 44mm, that's a lot i think.
Can you give some side info in this thread why they used so many 44shims in this shock?? Or do we have to make a thread about the suspension company: what where they thinking when they assembled this fork/shock??
but Marcus, you are forgetting that SoCal is the center of the MX universe and we need more shims here since SoCal riders are twice as fast as everyone else in the world.
steve, i wasnt talking about myself there, i am still the slowest person i know; merely my observations about the local riders and all the local mags and tuners that think they are all the mutts nuts!
Well it lasted one ride:) the rear spring is a 5kg and too much for my 165lb-getting a 4.5kg.I will service the shock and inspect the valve stack and look for improvements.very good std suspension however-much better than a 03 CR/YZ/KX.
I bet by next week Marcus has the bike down to the crankshaft looking for things to make better. The Cali boys are dreaming about being the center of the universe. Everyone knows that Florida is the the center of the MX world. And why is it that all of a sudden guys like Langston, Vulliman, Fonseca and Reed have all become Californians??