
Roland Sands
American motorcycle racerWikipedia
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Search complete. 2 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Roland Sands".
Sep 16, 2026
Honda's Genius and Madness: Tech tricks that worked and ones that didn't!
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50:15Kevin CameronHOST
Anyway-
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50:15Mark HoyerHOST
Yeah, I was at, I was at a track thing, uh, riding around with, uh, Roland Sands way back when he was 250 and other racers w- back in when we were young, and I was going into corner, corners on this Honda 600, and it was kinda moving around a little bit, and I said, "Yeah, man, I, you know, it's moving around on corner entry," and, you know, we didn't have slipper clutches.
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50:36Mark HoyerHOST
And he said, "Dude, turn up the idle." And I was like, "Whoa." And that's what I did, is I just cracked it, you know, just cracked it up, turned it up to, like, 1,800, and it was better.
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50:45Mark HoyerHOST
It wasn't perfect, but it was better.
Episode 34: Adam Child on MotoGP Testing, TT Racing & Modern Moto-Tech
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19:44Adam ChildGUEST
Yeah.
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19:45Adam ChildGUEST
So I rode with Roland Sands years ago and he was going in the lane and I wasn't going in the lane and he was like, why are you not going? I was like, well, I've not got, there's only me.
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19:52Adam ChildGUEST
Is that two? He's like,
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19:54Troy SiahaanHOST
But motorcycles are exempt from that rule and you can go in there, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.