Factory Kawasaki News, Racers You Forgot About, & More! 🤯 | Inside SML - Ep.17 

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Its a great choice but maybe not the obvious one.

Big pharma doesnt wanthim to get tv time

Master pool doesn't really want a factory ride family don't gel with being told what to do

No it doesn’t... Tickle has been a Kawi test rider for years now, he rides and develops these bikes for the main guys every week. It a no brainer.

For real. Give the kid a bike atleast.

Esp. for outdoors!

Rumor has it that's gonna be Prados ride next year

I won't believe it till I see the official announcement, but I'm all for the silly season rumors and banter. I have heard that about Prado and Kawi a few times. But...that's 2025. There's a whole summer of outdoors that I believe AC9 is sitting out. Masterpool should get that ride as a tryout for the summer and if Prado is there for 2025, go to a 3 rider team! They have monster as a core sponsor, can't tell me they can't afford it!

@@tommylee9339Ty and is dad is a pain to work with because they want everything their way plus he isn’t amazing in sx that’s why he doesn’t have a factory ride

Thanks!

hes their test rider.

@tkleven Marvs a test rider for KTM too, but that doesn't mean he can still hang at the top level. Trey Canard is the only test rider that could probably still kick some serious ass.

​@@Sprocket74they don't expect him to hang, the point is that he can find out much more about the bike by getting to ride it in actual race conditions. They're not putting him out there to be competitive, they're doing it to help further develop the new platform

I bet he's better than you're giving him credit for. Borderline top 10 rider id bet

@edwindeming2148 I'm not saying he isn't good. It's Broc Tickle. I'm just saying it's wild to put your test rider in. Even Canard I believe would struggle nowadays to get top 10. Testing isn't racing. I'm not trying to take away from Tickle. I'm sure he will get some top 10s I'm just saying MEPC Kawi isn't normally a team you would think that would settle for top 10s.

Damnit 😂 thought he looked too good out there

I’m not sure Ty is difficult to work with; the ONLY issue or conflict I’ve heard of in the past is that he wants to ride and train at his place in Texas, where other teams have wanted him in SoCal with the rest of the team. That said, Tickle makes more sense if you look at the situation from Kawasaki’s point. He’s the test rider and can help develop the bike in race situations, they have already been working together for 3-4 years so there will be no growing pains, and if you have seen Broc ride in SoCal the last year or so you know how good his pace is still and how strong he is on a bike. The Ty fill in would be awesome to see, but Broc just makes more sense for Kawasaki.

@@SMLChase Really? That’s what people are complaining about for Ty? That’s wild. I hear it for the growing pains portion but as for results, this field is stacked and tickles finished back when he was pro were pretty mediocre so I wouldn’t expect better than 15-20 place rides, I’m sure he looks fast at the practice track and can develop the bike but that’s kind of already his role. Unless he’s doing this summer without a salary bump, I just see a wasted investment from Kawi. I could be wrong about where I see his finishing positions this year and he may end up top 10 but only time will tell on this season. Don’t get me wrong I love Tickle and hope he does good, I just don’t see it.

@@FanofMoto I think they said Broc is only doing some races, so it's way cheaper than hiring a full-time rider and he can test during real race conditions for them. It's been awhile, but Broc was just becoming a podium guy before he got banned and wasn't able to weasel out of it like Craig did. Also, no Webb, Tomac, AC, Roczen, maybe Craig and AP half ready, Ferrandis on privateer team. Top ten will still be hard but I can see him possibly getting one.

I like it

Tickle isn't a national champion. He can not take a single digit number.

@@steventate9866 I thought he won a 250 supercross championship

@@markdawson8946 250 supercross is a regional championship (East/West). Only 450 SX/MX & 250 MX are national champioinships.

@@steventate9866 ohhhhhhhhhh😔

Isn't Breece still 200?

@@garrickpridemore1235 like I said, I’m not really sure who runs those numbers but it sounds about right.

Star made Lopes get arm pump surgery and it sounds like the doctor screwed it up. Could be similar to what happened to AC.

@@deckmonkey1459 Dang eh, thats not good at all. Its weird that he just disappeared, Phil hasnt even mentioned him and he is his bro-inlaw.

Tickle is already on the payroll as a test rider and who knows what Ty’s sponsorship contracts are currently.

Dude, baggett isn’t even close to ready

Not even a top 20? The guy smoked the 2 gas gas riders and they top 10 in 250s so tickle is easy a top 10 in 450

@@daltonventer5663 I guess we’ll get to find out

Mosiman will be ready for outdoors

What about him? He's riding for Star

​@@chrisbuehler6868he means the other one lmao

I know he's riding for star had some crashes wondering if he was injured again

@@shanecade5942 oh yea dude got landed on over a triple and there’s no confirmed injury, just that he’s hurt enough to sit out supercross