New parts arrived

Some shots of what has recently crossed the doorway.

 - nice and light bar ends from Wünderlich : lighter might shave some weight out, but the boxer engine vibes might also feel more present.

 - nice and light license plate holder from RedBee.

 - primed seat cowl : it was missing when I got the bike and since I still don't know what the new paint scheme will look like, I'd better take it primed only.

 - new BMW emblems for the new seat cowl and upper triple clamp.

 - clear rear signal lenses

 - grips : the ones on the bike are worn and cracks had already been repaired in its previous life with what looks like glue.

I've got to find time to fit them all now and that's the trickiest part of the contract these days.

Stuck inside

This is how my driveway looks like at the moment. I can't roll anything out of the garage and even if I could, rolling back inside anything two-wheeled would really be a hard and dirty job.

2 more weeks to go ...

Both knees down

Visordown the mag is dead. The formerly known as Two Wheels Only magazine I already mentioned in previous messages will no longer make it to my mailbox. It's a real pity as I really was enjoying reading every single issue. The website visordown.com is the only form the editors will keep updating. The paper version wasn't apparently selling that good. The good news is that my subscription to Visordown has been transferred to "UK's best selling motorcycle magazine" (as they say) Fast Bikes. 

The good

The so-so

It's now the second FB issue I'm receiving and I can now say how I'm feeling about it. The first issue I got came along with a mega cliché poster : a large breasted young girl posing in front of a tuned motorcycle. With that kind of content, you bet it's the best selling motorcycle magazine. All in all the rest of the mag's content wasn't that bad and at that moment I couldn't image how much I would miss Visordown. The second issue's package had a FB goodie inside : a winter neck protection. How kind, I thought, but couldn't help noticing the mag's was way thinner than the previous issue. I read the content this afternoon and it's just a motorcylce magazine, nothing more. I mean it's everything all the other existing magazines are and it's too close from that Moto&Motards retard magazine. Now I'm missing Visordown.

Different and funny, made by real bike crazy boys as well as former GP and BSB glories, Visordown was a great one. Fast Bikes isn't that good, but I guess I'll bear with it until the subscription's over (and trust me it's not for the boobies).

Wealthy kid

How good it must feel to be a kid nowadays ... well provided you've got wealthy and generous parents. As I was trying to find a toy for my nephew's birthday, I came around these.

I don't remember motorcycle toys were that realistic (for the look, that is) when I was a kid. Look at that Ducati again : Öhlins upside down fork, Brembo brakes, hard as wood seat foam, everything's there.

Come on it says "Carbon serie" on that Megablock on the right ! I mean carbon !! Of course, there's not a single piece of carbon in the box, but can you seriously tease a 6 year old kid with carbon parts ? Well it works for me, so I guess the teaser only works for dads.

Fortunately, someone here keeps telling I'm still a kid. Would that mean I can buy one of these ? Pleeeeeeaaase.

But wait, it 's too late already. That one is out of my personal collection (and is actually a flat twin).

Will you guess what my job is ?

Stoner special

What better occasion than his MotoGP win at Aragon to have a Casey Stoner-related post ? (Strong win by the way)

The displayed picture shows a Casey Stoner Ducati special. Well it's just a "standard" 1198S with a fancy paint scheme. I don't know for you, but it's enough to do it for me.

Don't look for this one in the Ducati catalogue as it's not an official color scheme, but rather a local replica made by a ducati dealer in the south of France.

Carbon lust

One word : yummy ! :D

Brammo Empulse

As I said in a previous post, I'm still a petrol head, but I truly believe we're all going to get used to electric powered motorcycle. In a half-harted attempt to start to convince myself that this is the future, I don't miss an oportunity to post what comes close to a persuading vid.

Introducing the Empulse. Look at these vids and please don't say too much bad things about these. Don't ruin my efforts at trying be greener.

Rare Sportbikes For Sale is a website I've been wandering on from time to time for a couple of months now. It could be summurized as just being a place where rare sportbike sales are gathered like a simple eBay digest, but trust me it's a bit more than that. This blog-styled website has a rather simple (some say classy though) design that helps staying focused on the good quality motorcycles pictures.

Strangely D16s are not that rare on RSBFS

Rarity means you won't find bikes you're used to see on the street or over the web very often. And this is the whole point of this place. The bike ads are selected in a careful manner from old 2 stroke GP bikes  with a consequent prize list to low mileage-exotic-super cared of-carbon fitted two wheeled piece of art (3 Ducati D16s have already been spoted and listed on RSBFS).

Where else could you find a Tesi fo sale ?

You not only get the opportunity to look at motorcycles that all have scarceness as a common point, but you also get a direct link to bid and buy them. What you're waiting for: click and buy ! But wait ! Most (not to say all to be honest) of these ads are abroad, so we "Europeons" (as we're called) can only watch. It's a cruel world ...

What were they thinking ...

Watching MotoGP today reminded me of this logo which is exhibited wherever A-Style is sponsoring a race. At first you may think this is just an unfortunate though terrible choice by A-Style marketing team, but this logo design has been chosen on purpose to errr ... say errr ... "penetrate" the market.

Sorry, but I don't want that on my shirt. It's not even suggestive, it just plain and blatant.Well at least their first marketing gaol is hit: we're talking about them. I am getting prudish ?

If you fancy this kind of things, you'll find more marketing efforts gone wrong here.

Sold !

Just a few quick words to say the Triumph is sold. I had a lot of fun riding this great motorcycle, it's the bike I turned 30 on, but I need some room in my head for upcoming projects (don't ask as I don't know myslef).

Say goodbye folks !