Valentino Rossi<\/a>, as well as at a flat track event during that year\u2019s EICMA show in Milan. The Australian rode a two-stroke Beta, but suffered carpal tunnel while riding.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was good,\u201d Stoner said of his time on the Beta at the VR46 ranch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were slowly starting to do a little bit more on bikes and things like that, but I was struggling massively with carpal tunnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve never really had it in my life, I thought it was arm pump, and I thought \u2018The more I ride, the better it should get\u2019, and it was just getting worse and worse and worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, when I was at Vale\u2019s [Valentino Rossi] ranch I couldn\u2019t do more than four or five corners at a time without my arms just pumping up to the point that I just couldn\u2019t hold on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stoner returned in 2025 and found this time that he had to deal with arm pump, but this was more manageable as, with time on the bike, its effects lessened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went back there this year [2025], it was slightly better and it turned into a little bit more arm pump; so, actually, as the night went on, right as it was time to stop my arms started to feel better and better, so we were doing more consecutive laps.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut because I\u2019ve been out of it, because of the health issues, my body is struggling to recover as quickly, so it\u2019s struggling with blood flow in my arms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cSomething that I did for so many years I just stopped cold turkey and basically have done nothing for seven or eight years on a bike, so it\u2019s going to take some time to get the arm strength back.\u201d<\/p>\n
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