Rewriting rules, pt 2
Last month I described how, by the end of the MotoGP season finale at Valencia, 24-year-old MotoGP World Champ Marc Marquez was doing what no-one since Kenny Roberts in 1978 has done: developing a new riding technique for road racing.
In the 1970s Roberts took the rear wheel steering technique he mastered wrestling overpowered bikes on skinny tyres around the dirt ovals of the US, and applied it to Grand Prix. It’s a lot easier to say than do, and doesn’t often happen. There’ve been changes in riding styles since then, as bikes and tyres evolve –
