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When was the last time Aprilia ended a 500cc/MotoGP day on top? Has it happened since @McWill99 was on pole at Phillip Island in 2000 aboard the 500 twin? Anyone know? I'm feeling too lazy to find out https://t.co/wvdTGpQEwa

Posted: 48 minutes ago

Mat Oxley

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@gone2ray @MythBusters Hmm, I wonder if they'd be deemed accurate enough etc for concussion use

Posted: 54 minutes ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@Tboothamos69 Thanks - never knew leg pump was a thing

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@BSAA77 @Vera_Icona_23 @James_Caan @88jorgemartin @marcmarquez93 @MotoGP It's a beautiful but brutal sport

Posted: An hour ago

Tom Booth-Amos

@Tboothamos69

@matoxley Had surgery for it 👍🏼 same as arm pump operation https://t.co/3sIPWSeyhR Mat Oxley Retweeted

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@gone2ray Exactly. Thanks. Can you send me a link please - if I Google it I just get stuff about Casio watches

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

https://t.co/HG1sVL6AV4

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@BSAA77 They can decide how much

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@BSAA77 It's not the power so much, it's the grip, the brakes, the turning, the changes of direction, the brakes, the constant climbing all over the bike etc - and the fact that everyone is working harder and harder to...

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@BSAA77 Synthetic fuel will do it

Posted: An hour ago

Sam Lowes 22

@SamLowes_22

@matoxley Wouldn’t mind a go 👍🏻👍🏻 Mat Oxley Retweeted

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@SamLowes_22 😍😍😍😍😍 https://t.co/VZ5IrRPODd

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

Miller joking about concussion gauges in helmets. The problem in motorcycle racing is that every time you hit the ground hard - even when you don't hit your head - you'll get some concussion. If they run F1-style concussion gauges...

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

Miller had a problem with 'leg pump' (my term) at Aragon. Upshift effort etc messed with his left leg muscles during the race. He's had treatment with an electronic needle to break down the problematic fascia. Physical demands of MotoGP...

Posted: An hour ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

Here's the press release announcing Michael Laverty's VisionTrack Honda Racing Team for the 2022 Moto3 world championship https://t.co/IK4RTaDRvE

Posted: 2 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

Yamaha were kind enough to give me some onboard footage from Morbidelli's M1
https://t.co/UZHmG6UUko

Posted: 2 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

MM93, who is still struggling a lot with his right arm/shoulder, is quite happy with the rain - hugely reduces the g-force stresses on the injury. Some weather forecasts predict lots of rain for Sunday, others not

Posted: 2 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

Morbidelli says he's been out too long to compare the 2019 M1 to the 2021 M1. He said, "It just felt like a spaceship." 🚀🚀Trying different riding positions to reduce the problem of pain etc in his bad knee

Posted: 2 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@carloborger @TanjaBueltmann The horse, yes. The steam train, no. I read something from the late 19th c saying something like, "the steam train - 5% of the heat goes into driving the train, 95% into heating the air"

Posted: 2 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@JPC_AMG @motomatters @simoncrafar Imagine if they allowed any other journalists apart from their own in pit lane 😩😩😡😡

Posted: 3 hours ago

Prof Tanja Bueltmann

@TanjaBueltmann

Those who use the past to make policy in the present—e.g. when announcing the return of imperial weights & measures—do so because they have nothing to offer for the future. No solutions to pressing problems; no offering for the next... Mat Oxley Retweeted

Posted: 3 hours ago

Maikel Lemmen

@MaikelLemmen

@matoxley Really hope someone will make a biography on Boet, just like they did of Jack Middelburg. The stories are surreal to nowadays standards. Jack had a chest pocket on his suit to put his tobacco in. In case he... Mat Oxley Retweeted

Posted: 3 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@jbijma My weekly pocket money pre-decimalisation was two shillings and sixpence. When UK went decimal in 1971 my gran bought me one of these to keep - 18.5p in total - I spent the lot within a week https://t.co/n1DDWHMc1P

Posted: 3 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@hiddenbyhelmet I doubt it😅

Posted: 4 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@motomatters Exactly - these days a 'mistake' is going 25cm wide through a 100mph corner

Posted: 4 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

😅😅 Miller saved this braking into Turn 1, Bastianini was less lucky a few minutes later https://t.co/g8GCD5PGcm

Posted: 4 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

Re Bagnaia's Aragon win, illustrated how the current generation has to ride every moment of the race 99.99% perfect. Bagnaia said he made 4 mistakes during the race (2 at Turn 7, 2 at Turn 8) but they were all...

Posted: 4 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@mad_coincoin @JustinHumph2021 @jbijma 😩

Posted: 4 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@mad_coincoin @PCliffordWCM @JustinHumph2021 @jbijma The madness followed an actual race event there in 1972, around the main Paris fruit and veg market. Was a big-money event - Agostini and everyone got paid very well to go there - huge crowd...

Posted: 4 hours ago

Mat Oxley

@matoxley

@mad_coincoin @PCliffordWCM @JustinHumph2021 @jbijma The illegal races and general lunacy took place at Rungis, I think https://t.co/8iX9S4jKDO

Posted: 4 hours ago

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