Roger DeCoster, Makita Suzuki team manager for one more week.

How does that feel?

It feels kind of strange, you know.

It feels strange and somewhat sad.

I feel almost like I'm going through divorce or something.

I've been with them so long and we had so much history

together and unfortunately we could not we could not agree you know I wanted

I wanted a long-term and multi-year agreement and somebody in Japan had

decided that there could not be any commitment made for longer than the end of next

season, next year.

And I wanted more than that.

I feel that I need that to be able to do my job good.

And, but, you know, I also understand the facts of the economy and all that and they made some plans

and they went to stick to it and you know it's unfortunate but it's the way it is and now you've got

an offer from KTM you're going to go over there and try to try to work with that program do you think

it's a case of Suzuki maybe thought you wouldn't leave?

And then now you turned around and said, hey, I'm going to go where I'm wanted for three years.

How did the KTM thing come together?

Well, I have been friends with Selle, you all know, for many years from the dating back from when he was

working for micro in Europe in the mid 70s and you know I always they always kind of

a you know I wanted the desire for me to come there, but neither him or I took it serious,

you know, we were just friends and then did our job on each side, and then when I started

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