Articles from this week's MCN:


As for truck drivers - I am sure they don't set out to kill people and many of them are motorcyclists themselves. Ease up on them a bit please - driving a bl**dy great truck is not easy, many other road users show them little or no respect - trucks get cut up in all directions with everyone trying to get by them (except me - 15 years driving a 2CV kills any overtaking instinct) The drivers need to have eyes everywhere and everyone makes mistakes .

Well, that has come out really badly - I can read it but then have had the benefit of having already read the hard copy. If anyone is interested I will have another go.

I can't believe this....this is a thread dedicated to Abe and now there are people arguing over truckdrivers!?

Please..stop it, it is not very respectful towards him. Yes he died because of one, but that is no reason to blame EVERY truckdriver alive...if it had been a random driver of a car we wouldn't have had this problem

Everyone just watch your words and get back to what matters and that is paying respect to Abe...a MotoGP legend in my eyes and he deserves better than his thread being used to air grievances towards certain people in traffic.

thank you

Perfectly said

Nice photos.
A lot of respect among the crowd.
Nothing more to say than...
Goodbye Norifumi.

Thanks for the photos LeJentle. It is good to see the respect afforded to him.

Thanks for the article Jr...I almost started crying reading Randy's columne...

Dr Costa:

ABE, A SMILE

Japanese, with a history of thousands of years that only Orientals can fully decipher.
Long hair, perhaps because hair symbolises and contains strength, universally, although Samson is a Western myth.

A bike in green and orange shades, at a time when colour still only belonged with flower beds and gardens in Japan.
An arrow shot towards the sky of desire, making even the brightest stars look duller.

Just a hint of a smile on his lips, but an explosion in his eyes. Perhaps because with that smile, Abe wanted to achieve his life’s wish: to win, to win not just races, but his inner thoughts, and turn victory into happiness.

Next to the wreck of his bike, his eyes, just before closing, smiled to the crazy lorry which had just cruelly killed him.

And while all the riders and paddock people, on the start line of the Australian GP at Phillip Island last week [photo], sadly bowed their heads to remember a lost friend, Norifumi was still smiling: he was right there, Atlantic ocean splashes rippling that hint of a smile, lighting up thousands of rainbows.

I cry as a baby when I heard it.I never forget him!

I have already posted on this once, but I feel that doing it again is OK. I saw that race that Vale talks about, and the word AWSOME DOES NO JUSTICE TALKING ABOUT HIM IN IT. There really is no words for his riding, as all have said he will be truely missed by ALL. RIP NORICK WE WILL NEVER FORGET THANK YOU TO HIS FAMILY FOR GIVING HIM TO US AS LONG AS WE HAD HIM.