Especially Stoner and all the aussies Taddy Blazusiak, Haystack, Colin and all hail the new King Jorge Lorenzo. Favourite Track: Phillip Island, conondale green valley (qld) Posted 19 September 2011 - 05:16 AM gui22a, on 18 September 2011 - 06:38 PM, said: Who asked for an aluminum chassis? JB and Rossi. Ducati delivered it and it proved nothing. Preziosi said a bunch of times "I don't think the material is the problem". Preziosi is open minded , if he isn't he was not updating the bike so much times following Rossi's/JB's orderings. CF is not the main issue, actually it's better. It's clear Ducati has a problematic concept with their engine as a stressed member and the shape of the chassis. Maybe it's time to try a more common concept, but built in CF. I was originally open minded to the CF idea. I would love to see it as a full frame (wouldn't that be trick?) but I remember reading some article where they talked about chassis development in motorcycles. Compared to a car (stiff as hell with good suspension at each corner) there has to be flex, I think it was KR senior who complained that the original aluminium (deltabox) frames by Yamaha had no feel. He took to them with a drill to create weakness and thus flex to get feel into them. An engine just don't flex. And if you have a flexy sub frame bit at one end and the other and a stiff engine