Published January 24th, 2005
in Rides.
Yesterday MotorMilt & I were fortunate to finally get a ride in after what has felt like a month and half long drenching by mother-nature. Definately not one of the best rides I’ve ever had nor the most enjoyable. I knew we were in trouble when we passed by the intersection at Topanga Canyon & […]
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Published January 21st, 2005
in General.
Got home tonight and found an email that someone had forwarded to me that included a link to a CNN article titled, “Death rate in overdrive for older motorcyclists”. Based on the title, I’m sure most of you can guess what it’s about…
Across the country, the annual number of motorcycle fatalities among 40-plus riders […]
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Published January 21st, 2005
in General.
SuperbikePlanet.com has published an interesting three part Op Ed series on the upcoming MotoGP season, culminating today with an interesting look at what went wrong with Ducati’s 2004 racing effort. Basically they believe that the Bolognia boys bite off more than they could chew when they took the quatum leep forward from the more evolutionary […]
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Published January 21st, 2005
in General.
I know I tend to write quite a bit about Ducati Motorcycles, but while surfing the ‘net tonight I came across a link to an KTM Advertisement for their new 990 Super Duke Motorcycle. It’s more MTV than art, but as far as motorcycle ad campaigns go it’s pretty damn good. Someone at KTM definately […]
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Published January 20th, 2005
in General.
After writing several previous posts about Michael Czysz’s MotoCzysz MotoGP Motorcycle I wanted to throw a shout out to Travis over at Motorcycle-Blog.com who today posted a scope on the soon to be announced Red Bull USGP paint scheme for the C1. Honestly I have no idea where he saw the press release because as […]
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Published January 20th, 2005
in General.
You have to hand it to those stylish Italians, they sure know how to unveil a new race bike for the upcoming MotoGP season. Today they introduced the new Desmosedici GP5 on top of the GrostĂ© glacier admist the Dolomite mountain range in Northern Italy. Hopefully this year they’ll have a killer racing season to […]
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Published January 14th, 2005
in General.
Came across an interesting motorcycle photo forum last night called BikePics, that’s nondenominational towards manufacturers or brands. The site claims to be the 17,085 ranked website in the world according to the Alexia and growing. I’m not sure I quite believe and/or care about their size, but what does interest me is their video section […]
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Published January 13th, 2005
in News.
Tonight I wanted to throw a shout out to Mike Werner over at Bikes in the Fast Lane, who has posted a nice write up/press release aboutThe 2005 MotoGiro Event that Ducati is putting on in May… With Italian roads, warm weather, great food and plenty of wine, it sure sounds like my kind of […]
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Published January 13th, 2005
in Reviews.
Once The West Wing wrapped earlier tonight - seriously, has there been a better season? - I stole a few moments and finished the last few pages of Kevin Ash’s book, “Ducati People : Exploring The Passion Beind This Legendary Marque”. After ripping right through “Ducati 999 : Birth of a Legend” picking up another […]
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Published January 12th, 2005
in General.
While surfing the Ducati message boards tonight, I ran across a link that I thought was worth a read. It’s to an article that Dean Adams penned in 2000 about a trip he took to the Ducati Factory, titled “Lost at Ducati”.
Here’s a short excerpt…
On the wall behind the desk of this 40 […]
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