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posted March 09, 2004 04:53 PM
Cycleworld Jynx - Kurtis Roberts
This month, Cycle world did a feature on Kurtis Roberts. Apparently, that's right up there with a football team getting featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated prior to the Superbowl.
This from Superbike Magazine's website:
"The Proton team was testing at Valencia over the weekend and had sent out Kurtis on their best bike, the only one they had. Kurtis, who's been going not too bad, proceeded to highside the beast, splitting the tank and watching as the bike turned into a pile of molten metal.
There was only one marshall on the track with a fire extinguisher, who was on his lunch at the time, since the bike burned a trench in the track surface. To be fair, Kurtis looked distraught. Probably because he knew his dad was going to ground him or take away his pocket money. "
  
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VincentHill
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posted March 09, 2004 06:11 PM
Man that hurts to see. They cannot afford these type of problems and need to make sure that the tank is stronger or better protected. I have not seen anything like this since the Harley split it's tank at Daytona and crossed the infield without the rider to threaten the other riders back in the early 70's.
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posted March 10, 2004 01:00 AM
i know this is kinda cruel but i just had to laugh out loud at that first pic, with him jsut sitting there at the side of the track, helplessly watchin 
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posted March 10, 2004 04:13 AM
I know of 3 factory RC-51's that have burned before this one. I know this is a new bike, but they seem to have an old problem.
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posted March 10, 2004 04:53 AM
Perhaps they're going about it all wrong. Maybe the crew should bring marshmellows, graham crackers, and chocolate to the next tuning session.... 
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frEEk
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posted March 10, 2004 09:10 AM
LMAO!! now that's a funny image. wonder what they'd taste like with all that burning fuel and plastic. bet they taste like expensive marshmallows in any case!
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posted March 10, 2004 03:55 PM
Those Roberts people could get a ticket for polluting that place!!
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aliveagain
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posted March 10, 2004 07:50 PM
Ah,carbon fiber in the air,smells like victory!
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posted March 11, 2004 12:38 AM
yeah, for the other team.
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