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I can remember Digger on the Moriwaki in the UK in early 80's some of the stuff he did was staggering.
Was fascinated to hear Knig Kenny talking about trying to get Wayne on a Yamaha, this was perhaps before Wayne was ready, I could see Gardner with Mamola as a great team, certainly beter than Baldwin and Magee, though you could see why both those guys got the ride.
Either way, you do get the sense from all these guys that though they can understand what guys like Marquez, Lorenzo are doing now, they know, like we do, that late 80's early 90's 500's were the hardest GP bikes ever invented, and I doubt anything modern riders do until their controls are purely theirs, will change that.
Oh and to answer the TC question, most 500 teams were using forms of TC in the early 00's on 500's Not sure how good it was, but most of them had something