Cafe Racers, TT racers (as in Tavern to Tavern), whatever you call them, they are way cool. As you may know, I love the Honda 350…don’t ask, I don’t know. Years back, a good friend of mine ‘Chopped’ one!..the dysfunctional TV family (OCC) could learn something from that bike…and I cafe’d mine out. Clubman bars,…
Good morning all,This morning on CNN the bubbly news personality reported that automobile fatalities were down again last year. Then added that motorcycle deaths are up for the tenth straight year. That was all. A little digging was in order (no pun intended). USA Today, Healthlink, The New York Times and more all have the…
A couple of weeks ago I got to do one of things I love to do most, go traveling on my motorcycle. This addiction started back in the early seventies with a trip up into the Sierra’s on my BSA Lightning 650. I rode with my high school friends Benny and Mike. Benny on a…
Good morning,Frank Scurria, a great gentleman and a very important part of Ducati’s racing history needs everyones help. Prior to the MotoGP at Laguna Seca last month was a great event, The Moto Giro America, a multi day tour around the Monterey Peninsula area culminating at Laguna Seca Raceway. During the event Frank was very…
Motorcycle racing is quite a spectacle. Motocross, Flattrack, Roadracing, Speedway, it doesn’t matter. Each of them are beautiful ballets powered by a lot of horsepower. However, the other night on TV we all witnessed the greatest Ballet I think any of us has ever seen. The opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics. I get up…
I stopped roadracing a while back, just how life goes. I still travel, sometimes at some pretty quick speeds, it’s that right wrist thing I guess. Motorcycles have been part of my life since I was 15 years old. Riding my dads Honda 160 in the parking lot, to my step dads Yamaha 100 dirt…
Here I am on my soapbox again… I just got home from a great road trip in the Sierra’s…criss crossing the passes…Sonora, Ebbitts, Monitor, Carson…what fun. Great roads, scenery, camping, weather, you couldn’t ask for more. But…here’s the soapbox stuff…Groups of riders that are parading instead of riding. We have all seen this phenomenon. There…
Time to go back to school. Riding school. I know some of you think I should go to writing skool but my grades aint gud enuf. Oh well. A lot of years ago I attended the Original California Superbike School run by Keith Code out at the now long gone Riverside Raceway. It was a…
Happy Saturday all, A week ago I was sitting in the Media Center At Laguna Seca and wandering the pits scrounging up interviews. As I have said before, I have been going to Grand Prix races at Laguna Seca since the late ’70’s I have hundreds of slides (remember those?) of Kenny Roberts, Eddie Lawson,…
Note to self: learn to speak Italian. Or French, or Spanish, or German. To really enjoy all that goes on in a Media Center at an International Motorcycle Race, knowing another language would be quite handy. Today here at Laguna Seca has started out pretty darn cold and wet but at least no fog to…
