Some recent test footage shot on a Canon T2i with a 35mm f/2 & a Go Pro HD action camera…
Tag Archives: Ducati 1098S
Vista Advancement
Gears are grinding as the pistons churn and the machine envelops yet another twenty-four hour news cycle. Another day that should be marked on a calendar and recalled many, many moons from now, when I’m old and gray and feeling frail, perhaps wondering where my … Read More →
Rippling Asphalt
The tarmac is somewhere between damp and desperate as she dances away. Instinctively I start to fight it, maybe even fear it, but she doesn’t care. She doesn’t need me. She’s all grown up. Free. Able to feel and emote and move. Blipping the throttle, … Read More →
Chewing the Malt
The sun is diving down from beneath the stratus as I stand on the edge of eternity. In mere seconds a very blue day has become a very orange one. Life is now brilliant. And bright. And gold… And incredibly horizontal. The water cutting such … Read More →
Choice
The road flat out flies as the asphalt fades into the distance. To the left stands a evocative valley. To the right a constantly evolving mountain. And ahead a piece of simple, basic, brilliant tarmac that’s straddling the intersection of the two. The intersection of … Read More →
When Fantasy becomes Reality
The bike is roaring. The engine whirling. The tach rising. The fuel tank lowering. The moment at hand… I see it… I feel it.. I am here… I am alive… once again I believe… So many big ‘thoughts’ and so few ‘little’ ones… I am … Read More →
Boxes We Build
There’s a beat… A second that goes by… A moment where what lies forward enters the ‘here & the now’… A smirk, A smile, A sense of life… But then it’s gone… A flash. A bulb going off.. A brilliant beat that’s continuing to move … Read More →
2 Tanks of Fuel Fantasy
You know you’re having a kick ass sportbike ride when you find yourself filling up the tank for the second time before noon… And today was that kind of day… I suppose it shouldn’t be all that shocking really, like many things in life, the … Read More →
Mental Drifting
I’m coming through yet another corner — the latest in a series of endless turns and bends — and I find myself wondering when am I going to wake up? When will this dream cease and reality set in? Hopefully never… It’s been less than … Read More →
Rehab for the Soul
I ask where I am and the man says, “the last, best spot in California”… Quick smile to myself and I think you’re more right than you know… Am I really here? Is this real? Am I alive? Is this a dream? I do not … Read More →
Air
It was short and sweet and to the point — The business email of rides — All bullet points, no flowery language, just the road, the bike and and an oh-so-brief chance to let go. To breath. To touch what you can not see… One … Read More →
4 Valve Victory in the Canyons
I see the corner coming — the deep bend, the strange camber, the way the road rolls against itself as it tilts right and climbs north. Part of me cringes. Feels out of sorts, as if today isn’t really my day. But the bike doesn’t … Read More →
1098 Mod: Installing Speeymoto Rearsets
With the rain rolling in, Sunday seemed like a great day to install the new Speedymoto Rearsets, that I picked up from Desmoworks, on the 1098S . When you open the Speedymoto box, the very first thing you see is a set of instructions – … Read More →
A Clearing in The Mist
Just a quick snap from a quick ride up and down the Ortega in the rain… Not my favorite ride of the year, but better to be out on the bike than not…
Curving Flashbacks
Few quick picts from a sweet ride through the canyons with Trevor Navarra, a rather accomplished still photographer…
Private Canyon
Sweat is beading up. Bits of perspiration grow unchecked. First there’s one. Then two. Now, three. Until the moment comes when the collection of water hits its critical mass and the weight exceeds the liquid’s suction power. A second later, I feel the momentum of … Read More →
Serenity Rises
A blue blacktop of never-ending daylight screams across the horizon line as the machine’s pulse rises and falls in an endless cycle of movement. Rubber rips. Throttle cables advance. Gears roll on. The engine rumbles. Planted, the machine echos through out the valley floor. I … Read More →