Ivan Tedesco

Let me think about this for a minute.

Ivan Tedesco and Brock Tickle, just because we worked so much with those guys that Tickle's a funny story, right? So at the end of our relationship, when RCH was kind of closing down and he was still writing, I caught him looking at my test notes before we went out.

Oh, okay.

So before that, I was like, oh, my God, how does he know that this is the change that we're making, right? And we laughed about it.

He's a very good test writer, don't get me wrong, but there's that little bit of data that I'm like, well, how many times did he look at it? Ivan Tedesco got to the point where he knew the linkage that we put on based on the feel, because we kept him completely in the blind, and he was able to nail down exactly what that was doing.

Another one that shines for me is Craig Decker, and that goes way back to the Urbana-Montes.

He does suspension now with, I think it's a subsidiary of Ross or whatever it is.

No problem.

He's not going to have the Ivan Tedesco problem.

You know what I mean? Kind of what Deegan's doing now, trying to ride a 450 like a 250.

He's got that smooth.

Like, you know, and you'll see them bring in guys to help test or whatever.

And there's some guys like, uh, Ivan Tedesco was notoriously a great test rider.

Yeah.

Could feel anything.

D'Angy.

Ivan Tedesco.

Ivan Tedesco faisait ça aussi beaucoup.

Tu vois qu'il a qu'il était vachement désaxé de sa moto dans les virages euh et c'était euh...

Mais c'est pas Tedesco qui tournait comme ça avec la tête [rires].

Because he's a smart guy, great guy.

I got a lot of respect for Ivan Tedesco.

I just didn't know if he's vocal enough, Mikkel, in that role, you know?

It's definitely taken something for him to get used to because, I mean, Ivan was my roommate for the past, I don't know, eight months, six

I've already got a rebuttal.

Young Lewis Phillips was at Ernie in 2005 when Ricky Carmichael and Kevin Windham and Ivan Tedesco showed up.

And the next year when James Stewart and Ryan Villapoto and I...

It's possible.

Right.

But if you attack it, so Ivan Tedesco had this problem.

Blake Baggett had this problem.

There's been a whole bunch of guys that try to bring the 250 style to a 450.