Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1990's

• month) mow s the lawn ~ t home anywa y. If you can mow the lawn it means that you 've got nice weather, and if you've got nice weather he re you go motocrossing." In fact it' s road racing that Crevier's been doing most of the winter, testing m ore than h e ewe r h as - easily done since he was never invited to the Muzzy tests - and getting acclimated to the new team, which goes abo u t ra cing much differently that the Muzzy squad. "Rob expects th at yo u should be in sha pe and be ready to go when you step off the plane. I wo uldn't be at Honda if I didn't have Rob Mu zzy to get me here. I think in one sense I can respect and admire his thinking on that, but I think I nee ded mor e hel p than that," he say s, later adding tha t since "all the bikes are super com petitive, su per trick, you m ust test. That's the law . You can't not test. In one sense I admi re Rob 's way of thinking that you sho uld just be rea dy to go. But, I'm sorry, I can't agree to it because I need the extra special hel p. I'm n ot that confi den t anymore." Wh en Crevier had ea rlier u sed the wo rd "anymore" it was to say: "I' m no t 20 years old anymore. I' m not you ng, dumb and full of ener gy. I'm not how I was when I was 20. I'm 30, I'm just a workhorse rid er, I'm not an y miracle. So m y results in su perbike, I d on 't think, hav e been go od enough. " On the Honda, Crev ie r predicts that " we should see a lot better results fro m me right away." He a ttrib utes the new found confi- dence to the team. They go out of their way to m ake him com fortable, wh ich would appear relati vely easy. The western Canadian is a bundle of barely contained energy at the track, always smiling, always joking, never taking himself too seriou sly. " I 'm getting the sea t tim e and that has a lot to do wit h Gary Mathers agreeing that a rider ha s to test . Martin Adams agrees th at a rid er has to be on the bike m ore. And I think the experience that they got with M iguel last year - in the beginning they had no testing and then they tested h im a lot and .' th en they w er e unloading the bik es at the ra ce track and they- were ready to go. , "Right now I've done enough testing already that I feel reall y confident of the bike an d I know the character istics of the bike. I've alrea dy ridden them pretty h a r d , pretty fas t, and I feel co mfortable." Th e te a m has tes ted a t Daytona, Homestead, Will ow Springs, and tw ice a t Lagu na Seca. Though Crevier has be en a bout a second off DuHa mel' s pace, he's confident the times will come, especially since it took several ses sions for him to sort out the carburetion, on e o f his pet peeves . "It seems that m y common complaint about life in general is that life d oesn't se em to carburete properly." Then they put DuHamel on the bike, he confirmed Crevier 's su sp icions, an d th e problem w as sorted ou t. Since h e a n d DuHame l are rou g h ly th e same size, the bike also fits h im be tter th an IF YOU LOVE THE EXCITEMENT OF SIT11NG IN TH SKIND OF SEAT..· • the longis h Kawasaki that was design ed aro un d the mu ch taller Russell. "I like the H onda because yo u ca n steer it in to a tu m reall y well. Becau se there's not so much backspin off the rear wheel, it doesn ' t set th e b ack en d up sidew ays too much. You can enter corners at a good click, confidently, choose your li ne on the way in . Like Laguna h as corners lik e turn five, wh ich a re bu mpy, uphill left-b anders, and I know before that when I tried to accelerate too hard and carry my momentum, I w as always go ing to get into a high-side situa t io n . The fle x an d stability in the Honda jus t seems to soak those bumps up confid entl y a n d comfortab ly an d you' re not using u p so much energy. It's an eas ier b ike for me to ride. It has a g ood, long, flat powerband and it doesn't wheelie u p t oo m u ch to the o ther corners. You sort of mi ss th e amusing b la st of power yo u go t off Muzzy's ZX7. It hi ts like a cement truck. I always liked that. I'm always am used b y a b last of power, es pecially with Rob's bike. Th e thi ngs were powerful. They were fast. Hard for me to control." . With the package complete for 1995, and a two- year deal in hand, Crevier is read y to race, but not to make any pr edicti ons, at least not for this year. " I really want, and I really think I ha ve, the opportunity to shine, m aybe not this year, but I have two years with Honda and I believe that I can shi ne . And I hope that I ha ve four years with Honda then," he says. "I'm not going to sit her e an d say that I'm goin g to wi n championships. I want to win races this year and if th at m eans pushing hard e n o u gh to get o u t front and m a ybe cras h ing on the way, then if that' s what it' s going to take to win some races, then I'm going to do that. The championship will come after I wi n races. Of course, you can not win rac es and still w in champ ionsh ip s with the silly AMA p oint structure, 35 points a ra ce," he says before lau n chi ng into a harangue about the AMA point system . "Wh at I want to do is start learning how to win races aga in. It ' s someth in g that I'm missing. And if I d on 't win some damn races soo n, I'm going to be shelved . You can't be a fa ctory ra cer and not w in races . "I feel that I can win races, I know it's in my heart, I kn ow I've got the ability to do it and I'm not going to let anythin g stop me. I'm jus t going to wo rk at it as h ard as I can. And if I don ' t wi n the firs t o ne , and I don' t wi n the secon d one, I hope to hell that I win by the end of the year. I'm jus t going to keep chipping away at the old block. Life is no t any different. You've just got to wo rk at it. With the program I' ve got, when I'm working at it , as long a s I show the enthusiasm th at I'm working at it, I'm alw ays going to ha ve the help I need to get there . "1' ve always wanted to be with this program and deep down I always wanted to ride with Martin and work under Ray Plumb, and definitely to have Merlvn Plumlee as a mechanic is kind o f a bon us . That' s the icing on the cake ." l~ YOU'LL LOVE THE EXCITEMENT OF SIT11NG IN THESE! If you've experienced the thrill of seeing the world around you from the seat of a BMW mot orcycle, you'll surely want to enjoy the speed , the grace and the excitement of the 1996 Summer Olymp ic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, from some of the best seats in the stands . Just visit the showroom of your local BMW motorcyc le dealer and enter our sweepstakes by filling out an official entry form. 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