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p INTERVIEW Tom Kip By Dean Adams' Photos by Henny Ray Abrams -- ----- 16 - - - - doesn' t get a u persp ort ride beca use H on a I e o r Kid s even t w ith Mi ke I'm sick of him d oggin g me all the time. Trayn or in California. Mick Doohan w as (Laughs) there as well, doing p romot ional work Wh y is the Suzuki such a great Superfor Am erican Honda. He had his leg all sport bike and su ch a pathetic Supertrussed u p and we were both on crut bike? es so we naturally started talking. I I d on ' t ag ree tha t it is pathet ic, just a litspoken to him at the B-H ou r the se tl les s refi n d th an th e co m pe tition . before, so I w as a familiar face to 'fhom as St has put some work int~.,..-.e.nYWaif he as ked me about my inj that bi orne time as well , and he an I tol him the en tire story about it di into a top five Dike, conc eiva b roken b ia and how it was heali . to e, any wa y. TIle whole packag kind 0 lo w , I thought, and I did overs tressed in Superbike tri know wha t I w as goi ng to do if it di 10k th at is why Donnie (Jacks) ve he al be fore too long . He told me to ated so many cases, in just pushin in and have my surgeo n break the fib a hot-rodded design way over the limit. as well because it sounded like the Supersport, the package is jus t about bones w not close en ough to mend. perfect balance . di d ultation wi th Dr. Kieffer an Sp eak ing of Donald Jacks, reed , s o· ;.Lt.aii~~~""~~""iIio. surp ris ed to see him re-signed at SuzuClevel and d o the job. I d id n' t tell any ki for 1995. Were yo u? one abo ut this either; I just didn't want o. Don must have ea rned the ba d luck th e stigma of everyone knowing I h ad award for th e past two seasons, I have had a late-season surgery as well as the not seen the da rk clo ud that has been original one . .. following him but I don't doubt there is But I tell you , it worked! Within two o ne. Having a series of really ba d cirweeks of the s e co nd surgery, I was cumst ances pummel you every time you walking on my own with no cr utches, get ba ck up is hard to recover from, I a nd with in p rob ably six weeks w a s know, I've been the re. But Don Jacks is a doing full workou ts. ta lented rider and he' ll go w ell so m eAnd now o nto Yam aha , or b ack t o da y. He gets a lot of grie f from mechanYamaha, actually. ics and teamma tes because he has a repWell , I ro de th a t aWOl Yamaha fo r a utation for not being as astute in finding few seasons as a privat eer , did pretty a setup as he is in setti ng a fast la p . I w e ll a t d iff erent tim e s and rode a n d on 't see a re a l probl em w it h . th at FZR600 in Su pe rs port raci ng for a seamyse lf, he' s go t the h ardes t as pect of son o r two, SO I hav e spe nt so me time on raci ng d own - the ability to reach do w n Yamaha products. inside yo urself and push your own perI was fairly con te n t to re-si gn with sonal limit. Find ing a com fortable se tu p Suzu ki for .1995, as I th in k th eir lon gand the technical side of racin g is jus t a term p lans are good o nes . They ha ve t im e - inten s iv e pro ces s, eve ry r id er some sights se t on World Superbike ra ecatches on at their own pace. I'm glad to in g w it h th e ir n e w b ik e, and th at ' s see Suzuki not losing faith in him. w here I want to go a s we ll - Wo rld What is th e s ta tus on yo u r leg? Will Su per b ike ."] rea lly di d n ' t talk to too you ha ve to undergo another su rgery in many factories abo ut what th ey were th e futu re? goi ng to d o for riders in 1995 because a No . In fact, abou t 14 months ago I did a lot of it loo ked sewn l;'P' But wi th Coli n