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**Angela O** · 25.07.2008, 22:26

Looks weird without any screen on it don't you think? & why do these manufacturers make bikes without a grab rail at the back these days yet still put on a second set of foot pegs....what's the use of there being a second set of foot pegs if there is nothing to hold on to??

It's too plasticy looking for my tastes...and how come there isn't any indicators at the front/sides?

Jossik · 31.07.2008, 21:58

Long Way Down - the big screen version!

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman out
in Africa with Ewan's R 1200 GS Adventure

They say everything is bigger in the United States of America and as far as the Long Way Down franchise is concerned, those in the 'land of opportunity' are being treated to an especially large slice of McGregor and Boorman pie on Thursday 31 July. A special two-hour 'Director's Cut' of Long Way Down will air just once at 7.30pm in 400 movie theatres nationwide.
American audiences have yet to see the Long Way Down series on television and this exclusive director's cut is a unique prelude to the 10-part TV series, which starts on 2 August on Fox Reality Channel. Airing for one night only, attending the two-hour special will be the only way the public are able to see this film on the big screen. Consequently, demand for tickets (which go on sale on 27 June) is expected to be extremely high.
It was the original Long Way Round odyssey in 2004 that helped bring the BMW R 1150 GS Adventure and the possibilities of adventure travel to the masses. The series also catapulted Charley Boorman to fame and did no harm to Ewan McGregor's reputation either. The established movie star's dream of traversing Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the USA with his best mate became a worldwide hit and inspired countless riders to leave the safety of their daily existences for life on the road.

Ewan and Charley at the Leptis Magna
ruins in Libya
Fast-forward a couple of years and talk started about a new adventure for the boys – on BMW's new R 1200 GS Adventure. But what could be better than riding from London to New York the Long Way Round? How about a 25,000 kilometre journey starting at John O'Groats, Scotland and finishing several months later at the most southern point of South Africa – Cape Agulhas? Taking in 20 spectacular countries in total, Ewan and Charley's long and arduous journey took them across Libya, through the deserts of Sudan, the tribal wastelands of Ethiopia, the jungles of Uganda, through Rwanda, Tanzania and Botswana before arriving at their destination.
The television series is currently airing in many countries all over the world on the National Geographic channel, and all will be revealed to American audiences nationwide when the two-hour High-Definition movie premiere begins at 7.30 on July 31 all over the USA.

Everywhere the boys stopped,
a crowd would gather
BMW Motorrad dealers are expected to encourage all their customers to pack out each movie theatre with BMW fans, as well as organising ride-outs to many of the local cinemas. With such a great branding opportunity, expect to see GS displays in lots of theatres, as well as dedicated BMW motorcycle parking provided outside.
Tickets go on sale on 27 June and are only $10, so if you know that you will be in the United States on this day – for business or pleasure – make sure you visit Fathom Events - Home Page to find out where the nearest movie theatre showing the film is.

Jossik · 09.08.2008, 12:13

This took place about an hour and a half from where I live at the Mid-Ohio Raceway, where AMA races.

Ducati Awards Awards For Cool DucatisThursday, August 07, 2008 This just in from DNA:
STUNNING SUPERBIKES STORM MID-OHIO

The Ducati Superbike Concorso now heads to its last round.
Cupertino, California (August 7, 2008) - Ducati North America is pleased to announce the winners of the Superbike Concorso's third round, which was held last weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
The Mid-Ohio entry list included some exceptional bikes. The overall win and the trip for two to the Ducati factory went to Alan Wilzig, for his pristine 1974 750 Sport. Alan may have won the competition, but story of the weekend went to Ducatisti Kevin Drum and Amy Chraston; whose surprise wedding proposal (and immediate acceptance) in the middle of the Superbike Concorso display on Saturday brought cheers from the delighted crowd.

The People's Choice award came down to vintage vs. current Superbikes and ended with a scant two vote difference. The winner was Tom Beasley for his 1986 Ducati F1b in Tricolore livery. This tipped the judging and earned Tom and his F1 the Cook Nelson Award as well. But in this case the loser was also a winner when Michael Smith's beautiful 1098 S track machine was awarded the Casey Stoner class prize.

(I don't know what the Casey Stoner class category is. All I know is Casey Stoner has no "class"! )

Other awards included:
Bella Award - Edwin Vanaman, 1998 916 Senna
Passion Award Sponsored by Motorcyclist Magazine - Chris Calovini, 2000 996
Bayliss Award - Tom Perko, 1997 916SPS
The final round of the Superbike Concorso will be held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway September 12 -14th, 2008, on the FIM MotoGP World Championship Weekend.

I know some of these people who won. Tom Beasley's bike is beautiful. He's won other awards for it too. This is his bike:

Oops, realized the bike was not posted.

Here it is now.

dayangku · 10.08.2008, 14:26

(I don't know what the Casey Stoner class category is. All I know is Casey Stoner has no "class"!

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a very funny quote from you jossi.
It just doesn't make any sense sometimes, is it? But that's life.
Kc have no class....

Jossik · **Portions of interview with Kevin Schwantz -** 13.08.2008, 04:48

Words from Kevin Schwantz on MotoGP

Q One could say, given where the comment is coming from, when people talk about your career when you were riding the Suzuki, it was always that you were riding a machine that maybe wasn't at the level of the Honda or the Yamaha, but you got something special out of it because of who you were as a rider. So in essence, are you saying now, 15 years after you won your MotoGP Championship, that the bike is maybe in the same kind of a situation, where they're going to need somebody who's a prodigy, who can really say, "Screw it, I'm taking the bit out, and I'm going to ride beyond what maybe my comfort zone is, and I'm going to try to extract something out of it, that little extra bit that comes from me and not the bike"? So it's the same thing it was when you were riding it?

A Yeah. No, and you know - I guess that's probably maybe the problem that I have with it, in hearing them complain about the bike. Well, the bike's never going to be perfect, and the bike's never going to be the best. It's going to be one of the best. It's going to be pretty close to the best. To make it the best, we've got to figure out what to do, how to get from you, out of the rider - we've got to hope that that extra bit can come from you. I ride the bikes at the end of each year. I ride them 10 or 12 laps. I don't know enough about it nowadays, all the electronics and stuff that are involved.

Q But you rode all the manufacturers' bikes last year, as I recall, right?

A Yeah, in the past two years I've gotten to ride them. The Suzuki was one of my favorites. But I get to spend more time on it. It handles, it feels like a Suzuki when I ride it. And if I were to take the thing and sling it down the road, I don't have a hard time coming in and facing the Suzuki guys, whereas if I crashed a Honda, I'd probably never be able to face them again. But yeah. I think what we saw in Laguna was a little bit of old-school, "here's the way Grand Prix racing's supposed to be. I don't care your bike's faster. I don't care your shit's working better. I don't care you've won a whole lot more races than me. I'm going to stuff you in the next turn and you're going to have to find another way around me. And what it's going to do, is it's either going to frustrate you enough that you're going to make a mistake and going to run off the track and fall over, something's going to happen."

Q That's kind of exactly what you and Wayne used to do, right?

A Exactly. And when I heard Stoner complain a little bit about the passes and the this and the that, it's like, "He never took a shot at you unnecessarily. He ran off the track? You're the one that put your position, that put yourself in the position outside of him, to get bumped into. And you leaned on him as much as anything." I'd have waited. I'd have let him slid across the track. I'd have driven right by him, and he'd have probably never seen me again. But it's good to see that there's still a little fire in some of those guys out there, because you don't see it very often. It's like, "Hey, here we go. We're going off into this corner. I'm up the inside of you. I'm going to let off the brakes and take the spot. I know it's going to make you mad because I'm slowing you down a little bit, but it's the only chance I've really got to beat you."

Q How else was Rossi going to win, unless he did something like that, at that track?

A Exactly.

Speedy · 13.08.2008, 19:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jossik

Words from Kevin Schwantz on MotoGP

Q How else was Rossi going to win, unless he did something like that, at that track?

A Exactly.

My thought's too Kevin........ EXACTLY

tammerz · 14.08.2008, 13:48

And i think Kevin is exactly right, he didnt come right out and say it but basically he meant "shut the hell up Stoner and get on your bike and ride"

Jossik · 27.08.2008, 12:44

New Yamaha Diversion in the pipeline

By Visordown News

Trellis-framed middleweight spearheads Yamaha's assault on the booming commuter market

HERE'S WHAT a couple of foreign motorcycle magazines think the new XJ650 Diversion from Yamaha will look like - and according to them we will see the bike sometime over the next couple of months.
The machine is rumoured to be one of the new models revealed by Yamaha at the Milan bike show this November, alongside the all-new R1, the XJ650 will spearhead the firm's assault on the sporty commuter middleweight sector.
The bike will feature a trellis frame and a mix of styling cues from such diverse ranges as the new V-Max and the FZ6.

Jossik · **Doctor Costa -** 02.09.2008, 02:25

Claudio Costa, the angel of heroes

CostaTrent'anni ago, in circuit Salzburgring, Austria, was born the Clinica Mobile. Here's who is the father (and mother) of this mobile hospital that has saved hundreds of motorcyclists: a child of 66 years who looks after the child present in every pilot.

Claudio Costa is the guardian angel of the pilots. For many reasons. The last is that a good doctor orthopedic that thirty years ago he founded the Clinica Mobile, the mobile hospital on all this
circuits of the world championship motorcycling. Claudio Claudio Costa Costa is first of all because it's a child in the body of a man of 66 years and therefore can speak to the child that's in all pilots and all sick.

If a driver wants to return to racing after an accident, Costa the whispers that can succeed, if it really wants. He has the dream of the pilot to return as quickly as possible in the saddle, and the dream almost always comes, because Costa is a rabdomante which finds strength and not the water has the ability to make people rise from energies not
you imagined. These impossible recovery times are indigesti medicine official, who then badly the bear: not so hastens the recovery, they say, the price is too high. Contrary to what may appear to be, calves dug, deformed Mick Doohan, his gaze lost Giancarlo Falappa, the right arm of Mattia Pasini demonstrate the opposite: no price is too high if it gives you the opportunity to realize your dream .

But even more than with the words, Costa care with caresses, "the most powerful medicine in the world," as soles say. The caresses of Costa are the caresses of mother to child: there is nothing more effective to heal. But how do you explain to a primary? Even in private life the dottorcosta (yes, a word) is atypical. It does not have a mobile phone, has never used the ATM. He lives in a sort of castelluccio (Feudino) at Imola, with his mother Silvana and his brother Charles, where hosts its pilots when suffer.

He loves to write books that talk about mythology and philosophy but that all motorcyclists understand. Search million for its mobile hospital but has never change in your pocket and the money seems not import. It is as easily not dream cars glaring, has not vezzi or hobbies except playing cards (burraco). Eat foods almost exclusively of his land and drinks only wine of its peasant. With a will of iron built in five years Clinics Furniture.

As a general coordinates a team of doctors and collaborators avvezza emergencies and totally loyal to him. Sa be tough, sometimes melancholic and very selfish: characteristics of the major creators. Both the father Checco, founder of the Imola circuit and organizer of major races, for the motorcycling ipotecò the house, as Costa has risked everything for the bike, including the jail. But it is precisely so that was accomplished his tale and he ceased to be simply a doctor becoming a guardian angel. Luca Delli Carri

Jossik · 08.09.2008, 10:40

(Lux, close your eyes!!!!! - that "Ducati" word again!)

Ducati owners out in force for British & European Saturday

The Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum hosted its third annual British & European Motorcycle Saturday on August 23 at the AMA campus in Pickerington, Ohio. Despite temperatures well into the 90s, riders, collectors, and spectators filled the grounds. Plenty of wonderful examples of late and early model European and British motorcycles were on display.

The Ducati Riders of Ohio Club (Ducati ROC) paid a visit with over 20 members revving in for the show. Never before has the museum seen so much red paint gracing the entry. Not only were they beautiful machines to witness, but as they rode in as a group the sound was quite impressive especially since among them was a rare Ducati Desmosedici, Ducati's race replica V-Four, and numerous 1098s.
A lightly customized Norton Commando (left), a beautifully restored BSA Gold Star were among vintage machines on hand. Two of the latest BMW sport bikes, the HPs in all their carbon fiber glory were out for their first break-in miles.

Along with seeing a great show of bikes, visitors toured three new Museum exhibits; MotoStars: Celebrities + Motorcycles, Red Bikes, and Awesome-Ness, the Arlen Ness Hall of Legends exhibit.
If you missed this bike show you’ll have another opportunity to see a world-class gathering of vintage motorcycles at our 7th Annual Concours d’Elegance on Saturday, October 11th.
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