Dylan’s Ducati Motorcycle Blog : Chronicling The Canyon Life of Southern California & Ducati Sportbike News
The big track at Willow Springs bills itself as “The Fastest Track in The West” and while I have no idea if that is in fact a true statement I can tell you that it is an absolutely amazing place to push your own personal limits. Now that I’ve had a few days to cool […]
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Apparently The Financial Times of London is running a story today about Ducati possibly being at least partially acquired by the American idustrial company Polaris (maker of powerboats, ATVs and Victory Motorcycles)…
From: The Financial Times Limited.
The American Texas Pacific Group fund has been negotiating its handover of Italian motorcycle manufacturer, Ducati, for a considerable […]
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Right now I’m physically and mentally exhausted from the track, but I have to say that it was a truly eye-opening experience on a number of levels. I’ll write up a much longer post tomorrow when I have some time to reflect back and some time to catch up with some rest. This will probably […]
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It’s 5:28 AM in the morning and I feel a unique sense of exciting and anxiousness. All evening there was a tremendous amount of wind gusting outside. I hope that doesn’t carry over today, but I suspect it will. I would have liked to have slept a touch better but I spent most of the […]
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Prepping for a trackday used to be such a simple thing. MotorMilt and I would mount up our bikes the day before the track adventure, ride up to a local motel, spend the night and subsequently rise the following morning ready to conquer the curvy asphalt. Little thought was put into anything beyond making sure […]
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This afternoon I got a fantastically relaxing hundred mile loop in even though at the outset of the day I didn’t think I’d get a chance to ride. Yet as luck would have it I was able to make a break for the canyons roughly around noon and even grab a quick bite at The […]
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There’s a magic in the Malibu Canyons. I swear it. You can’t touch it nor can you taste it, but you certainly can feel it. Especially on a day like today when its just you and the road shaking hands through every corner. Maybe it’s a Zen thing, but there’s something incredibly enchanting about riding […]
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I don’t know about anyone else but the beginning of the holiday season always seems to make me a bit reflective and this year is no different. Historically this is the time of the year when MotorMilt makes some sort of offhanded comment about how we need to get away while we’re taking a short […]
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I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that every so often you leave the house with your mind filled with the real world and at some point you think to yourself, ‘geez today is a really bad day to ride because I’m way to worked up about work to ride’… But then you get on […]
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Riding through the canyons this morning I was struck by the fact that it’s November 19th and in most parts of the country I’d have no business being outdoors riding a motorcycle. Swinging from corner to corner I was very aware of how fortunate I am to live in Los Angeles. In some ways this […]
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