New 2012 GasGas

[Rick]

Now why and go and start a rumor like that??? The last thing that needs to happen is a bunch of "internet rumors"

[Vindicator]

The new 2012 Race models are here ! GG outdone itself this time, one of the most good looking bikes in the market ! Some changes though, the quick airfilter extraction seems to have changed, don't see it there anymore.

[Clay]

We were told that there were technical issues with the cartridge airbox and Gas Gas decided to go back to a conventional type airbox for now so as not to delay the bike any longer. Maybe we will see the cartridge box in '13?
We are only bringing Race models into the US.

[Leo]

someone already see the new way on the gas tube?

[gasgasman]

Originally Posted by Leo

someone already see the new way on the gas tube?

The petcock lever is now facing backwards.
You can see in the earlier photos where the petcock lever is hitting the cylinder.

[gasgasman]

Shown at the Italian Motorcycle Show this week...

[Clay]

Yesterday Joe Bonello sent an email to several people about the new Ossa. I made some comment and another guy made a comment and then we started emailing each other. Turns out that he is in the Gas Gas race department. I asked him when they were getting the '12 models and he said they already had them. I asked what he thought and if the bike was good. He said "Yes, very good!" He was typing on an i phone and his answers were short but emphatic.
Clay

[motogroove]

I whipped up a home-made batch of GasGas SPAM. I might have let it age too long - had to rewrite one pargraph. LOL

http://www.mxnewsfeed.com/article.php?artid=3323

This goes out on a RSS newsfeed, so it should get some views here and there. Just spreading the love.

-Dean

[Elvis74]

Originally Posted by Clay

Yesterday Joe Bonello sent an email to several people about the new Ossa. I made some comment and another guy made a comment and then we started emailing each other. Turns out that he is in the Gas Gas race department. I asked him when they were getting the '12 models and he said they already had them. I asked what he thought and if the bike was good. He said "Yes, very good!" He was typing on an i phone and his answers were short but emphatic.
Clay

have you been to milano?
Here in Germany some people are discussing very bad about the new models. They said that the bikes shown on the show are crappy prototypes and not that what they are used to see fro GG.
I think the bikes ar great and the inovation are good too. To bad that I purchased a '11, because I ike to have the SixDays platics with the German graphics ;-)
hopefully GG will bring the new bikes to the dealers soon, so that the dusussions stops.

[Clay]

You guys worry too much!!!
Keep in mind that production won't start until December 1st. There are no production bikes in the field as of now. I suspect that even the bikes at Milano had old style engines in them (still have the old power valve cover). It seems to me that management is committed to bringing a completed product to the market. In an email that I got there was a reference to rushing the 450 to market and all of the problems that caused.
Clay