169 Quotes About Bike

It's a shame we haven't had more time to test the new bike - in the end I only managed four laps with it. That's why it seems a little early for me to comment on its performance, but it is clear that Honda are making a big effort.

He came at you with his mouth open and everything, came right at your back. It seems like every time somebody had their back turned toward him, he comes at you. If you're in a bike or a car it won't come after you, but as soon as you walk past it'll come right down after you.

It's a weekend course. It's usually a Friday night, all-day Saturday and half-day Sunday deal. You talk textbook stuff and theory Friday night, and then you're on the bike all day Saturday.

It's the sort of performance you can get out of a sport bike at under $10,000. You would have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a car to get that sort of quickness, that sort of top speed.

Everything felt really good today with the bike and the grip,

Definitely it was quite fun. When it?s like that, the bike?s working, the bike has got grip, and the lap comes together, it?s a lot of fun to ride the bike like that. Really enjoyed it.

Today I rode the new bike all day and we made some good progress. It was the first time we've had chance to spend a lot of time on the chassis and engine and I went quite a lot faster on it than I did last time here so that's positive. It's still a prototype machine and there are a lot of things we still need to try because it's quite a bit different to my other bike. It would have been nice to test the two bikes back to back but I'm sure we'll get a chance tomorrow.

I was hoping to go under (one minute) 29.5 and it is quite fun when the bike is working and the lap comes together,

I'm so happy to be to be on the podium today. Before the race things weren't going to plan. In the morning warm-up we were so slow and were in real trouble. My guys made some changes and I have to be real grateful to them as they got it right and that's why I got third. The bike was so much better in the race than it had been all weekend - so much faster.