• KR jr won it in 2000 on a suz500
  
• Rossi won it in 2001 on a Honda500
  
• 2002 they ran 2 strokes and 4 strokes and rossi walked away with it on the RC 211v.
  
• 2003 was 4 stroke only

all i know is that they didnt call the 500's "man eaters" because they were so rideable. huge props to anyone that could race one successfully. You were just a twitch away from being dumped on your head.

I always enjoyed watching Gary McCoy ride... smoke'n the shit out of the tires... then was it 05 when they went to 990?

02-06 was 990cc 4-strokes. 07-10 is/was/will be 800cc.

The 990's were exciting to watch too. Less injuries than the 500's, but you couldn't really control them, even with traction control, because they were putting down 260+ hp on a 2" contact patch. The 800's are putting out 200+ horsepower, but it's all at the top end, so traction control pretty much takes care of any possibility of high siding.

i got some past seasons from netflix or something and watched the 500's go round.... man those things would spit guys off out of nowhere. I should use the footage to show how newbies dont want the baddest bike out there. because here are the best pros getting bucked off for 'little' mistakes.

damn netflix has that shit? guess I'll be join'n netflix! :lol:

i think it was netflix.... one of those movie via mail things-

cool... I'll check it out