So which pros are signed with who?

[infantry317]

Ok, who's signed with who so far? This is what I understand, correct my list if I'm wrong:

Honda:
Tim Farr
John Natalie
Angela Moore

Yamaha:
Bill Ballance
Kory Ellis
Travis Spader
Michelle Reiser

Suzuki:
Doug Gust
Jeramiah Jones
William Yokley

Polaris:
Matt Smiley

[450r51]

all seem good to me, maybe little with yamaha, and byrd with honda. oh and theres another suzuki rider hes a pro and races mx just cant think of his name.

[Fred55]

Wouldnt Harold Goodman, Shane Hitt and Jeremy Lawson all be with Suzuki aslo?

[infantry317]

Originally posted by Fred55
Wouldnt Harold Goodman, Shane Hitt and Jeremy Lawson all be with Suzuki aslo?

I don't think any of those guys were considered "factory" last year, I read Lawson saying something about that. ???

[FHKracingZ]

goodman will be riding a honda next season.

[yfzrider93]

I believe Hitt will be riding a Honda also.

[yoshz400rider]

It really depends if you mean factory rider or support because

[hon400ex]

wheres borich? wtf? he's the most serious challenger to ballance and he's not sponsered?

[infantry317]

I'm talking Full factory support, getting $$$ besides parts and quads. Maybe Moore shouldn't even be on there for Honda.

[jrspawn]

I believe yamaha also picked up pat brown.

Justin

[USAF Dirtboy]

He is sponsered by Alba and Honda...i think

[redrider9045]

BYrd and borich wont go with honda and they should and soo should hitt go with suszki but he wont

[redrider9045]

listen to this i talked to a bunch of people on exriders and hey siad gust and jones wont be riding the z450 this year theyll ride the 400 wtf thats like sayin natalie farr and byrd will ride the 400ex instead of the 450r dumb people:grr:

[dshfearh]

keith's gonna be on a honda this year too.

[250xridamatt]

Originally posted by redrider9045
listen to this i talked to a bunch of people on exriders and hey siad gust and jones wont be riding the z450 this year theyll ride the 400 wtf thats like sayin natalie farr and byrd will ride the 400ex instead of the 450r dumb people:grr:

Im pretty sure they were just messing with you...

[Shawn H]

I seen on another site that

Stephanie Parton and John Gallagher SR both will be riding for Polaris this year.

[XCRACER26]

wouldnt supprise me

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by Shawn H
I seen on another site that

Stephanie Parton and John Gallagher SR both will be riding for Polaris this year.

I heard the same about Stephanie...

Im still stumped Why no one picked up Traci though:confused:

[jrspawn]

Hey, i talked to travis spader a few months back at englishtown and he had told me not to expect Team suzuki to be on the new 450's till after glen helen, something about production rules, the quad has to be avaiable to the pubilc at the time and certain # machines must be sold for it to be "legal" for pro production. He went along for a long confersation about the new lt450's, about tem suzuki having the prototypes and select others having them, cost of them, and even how the have to somehow "return and destroy" the prototype quads. it was really crazy. Like i said i had a long conversation about this with him, i cant believe hwo nice he was and how much he let out and told me.

Justin

[Shawn H]

Originally posted by QuadJunkies
I heard the same about Stephanie...

Im still stumped Why no one picked up Traci though:confused:


I agree total B.S::rolleyes:

[CannondaleRider]

Originally posted by jrspawn
Hey, i talked to travis spader a few months back at englishtown and he had told me not to expect Team suzuki to be on the new 450's till after glen helen, something about production rules, the quad has to be avaiable to the pubilc at the time and certain # machines must be sold for it to be "legal" for pro production. He went along for a long confersation about the new lt450's, about tem suzuki having the prototypes and select others having them, cost of them, and even how the have to somehow "return and destroy" the prototype quads. it was really crazy. Like i said i had a long conversation about this with him, i cant believe hwo nice he was and how much he let out and told me.

Justin

Yes, i've heard that there has to be 100 in circulation to be considered a "Production" bike.

[jrspawn]

Cannondalerdier, thats correct, and from what travis told me, there will ot be 100 true pruction quads available by that time, extremely doubtfull he said.

On another note though, are cannondale's able to race production? With switching to atk and all i didnt know how that would work?

Justin

[clyde 57]

maybe true about not racing the new 450 untill it comes out but Gust is riding the heck out of it at Glen Helen for about a month now

[clyde 57]

I read In the new Quad Magazine last night Spader and Brown are factory Yamaha and will use GYTR products

[jrspawn]

Yeah, spader and brown are being backed by yamaha. As for gust with the 450. There are some out there, but from what travis told me they are not the same as the true production quads coming out, and that suzuki actually has to recall the prototype quads and dispose of them. I was also told that they were having soe troubles with the fuil injection setup at the beginning of testing, and if not situated a carb setup would be used for the race season and the race quads. I would think by now they would have all those bug's fixed and will be running fuel injected race quads, but i guess like anything, with new product your gonna have some bugs here and there to work out.

justin

[hsr]

Can't suzuki use the homogolation rule or whatever it's called, like the bikes have??