Recent content by prolixly

I was in London last week and spied what appeared to be someone's daily rider parked on the street. Vintage junkies enjoy...

Despite the epitaphs circulating on the web recently, it seems Anthony Gobert is "not dead yet" and actually has a professional ride to start the season. Superbikeplanet.com reports he will fill in for the injured David Checa in world supersport. Be interesting to see what go-show can do with...

halfway through FP2 in italy, the top 6 are from only 3 teams. Gibernau, Checa, Capirossi, Rossi, Edwards, Melandri in that order. 2 riders each from 3 teams. seems a bit unusual, no? better baselines? different strategy of what to try when during the session? concentration of best talent?

I'm thinking about heading down to Daytona for the AMA races in March. However, DIS doesn't list anything like what I would expect for tickets. They offer tickets only for the 200 on Saturday: No mention of the Superbike race the same day or the SuperSport and SuperStock races on Thursday. Nor...

i don't usually go for posting cheesecake here, but thought this pic might be enjoyed... http://www.maxmoto.com/bitubo/pages/BITUBO%20shock.htm replaced with the link to the original source. not sure why the uploaded image got lost...

highlights of qualifying practice 1. at the 1:02 mark alex barros practices for the california DMV riding skills test...and fails laughably http://motogp.tiscali.com/ppv_multimedia2/284/284995.wmv

just finished screening FASTER on my laptop. it was better on the big screen, but it is great to have at home, and i'm sure i'll watch it many times again. some truly extraordinary scenes and candid interaction with the legends of the sport. hope you all get a chance to see it if you haven't...

Italian GP QP2 was red flagged today while a section of air fence was repaired after kurtis roberts crashed and then burned right against the wall. rider seems ok though i haven't read a report. the bike is definitely *not* ok. nicky earned a front row start after he was 0.002 from today's...

so far this is shaping up to be a great weekend at mugello. circuit records set during the first qualifying practice include: fastest lap: 1" 49.553' (almost 2 seconds under rossi's old record) top speed: capirossi 340.15 km/hr top 8 (count 'em) under rossi's pole time from last year top 15...

max has been pretty much minding his p's and q's during recent interviews and delivering solid performance on the track. seems to have had the desired effect on honda execs... http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2004/May/040517ms.htm

summary from an article at: http://www.seventhgear.com/uk/en/feature_view.asp?cid=6&fid=4722&apn=1 "Yamaha as an organisation may have improved since 2003, but the Welkom results for Abe and Carlos Checa - the only two riders who raced M1s this year and last - indicate that without the...

Visited my new hometown track,Summit Point WV, for the first time this weekend and watched a few WERA races. At one point the dust flew, followed by ambulance on the track, followed by waving red flags, followed by bikes at sighting lap/no brakes pace, followed by another ambulance. That's...

i think we can all relate to the writer's misery... http://venus.13x.com/roadracingworld/scripts/NewsInsert.asp?insert=8950

i had the very good fortune to hook up with the proprietors of http://www.motorcycleleatherexchange.com this weekend. i emailed them late last week inquiring about leathers for my GF. turns out they are literally just around the corner from our new house and they invited us over to hang for...

thought i'd finally get around to introducing myself, now that i'm leaving the bay area and moving to the east coast. like tomorrow. typical of me i guess to do things ass backwards. today i took my last ride up 84 from the valley, then 35 to 92, and back to san francisco. just before i...