Twisting Asphalt - A SoCal Ducati Motorcycle Blog

It’s been a rock’n few weeks for riding — With the weather turning, the skies clearing (relatively speaking) and a bit more free time then usual, I’ve some how managed to rack up just over a 1,000 miles thus far this month. While that’s just a drop in the bucket for the high mileage crowd, for me it’s historically quite good. Also probably explains why I’ve felt rather relaxed - even on days when the weather went to hell and the bike got tossed about, because there was always ‘tomorrow’ or the ‘next ride’… There’s simply something quite comforting about knowing that you’re actively - and perhaps excessively - engaging in the sport of riding and doing it with a regular consistency… Of course from my perspective, the best part is that there’s still thirteen days left on the calendar So a really good month might become a really great one rather quickly…

As some of you might have noticed, while I’ve been racking up the miles, they’ve been almost exclusively on the ST3. There’s a good reason for that - The 1098S had it’s first real mechanical mishap since I got it last year. Air managed to seep into the clutch line and while I’m mechanically inclined, it seemed like a better use of time to let the boys at Pro Italia deal with it while I got some much needed riding in. I suppose that’s one the strange contradictions of owning multiple bikes, if it’s a beautiful day and one of the bikes is down for whatever reason, I’m much more apt to get out and ride the other one then fret over what’s wrong with the bike in question… And while the 1098S was in the shop, I had the PI boys install some new bling that MotorMilt (aka the old man) had picked up for me over the holidays; a pair of brilliantly gold ’shorty’ CRG levers. While I totally dig the ‘look’ thus far I’m not sure if I’m sold on them or not - perhaps it’s just that I’ve gotten used to the standard Ducati lever set and they feel ‘comfortable’ to me. Time will tell I guess… I figure I’ve got thirteen days to see how they get going

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