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Photo: motogp.com Valē* Valencia! (Well until Tuesday….) Sometimes the last race of the season is a complete waste of time; championships already decided and jeopardy at zero.  Well not this [...]

Superbike – An Illustrated Early History Published by MotoRacing Books. ISBN-13: 979-8-218-25250-2 $75;00 plus shipping (Get someone to buy it for Christmas. In fact, get your family to club [...]

Photo: motogp.com They’ve come quick and fast recently, and so have the races.  On to the Thai Grand Prix at Chang.  Short and sweet just like……… well, you fill in the missing words. Talking of [...]

Photo: motogp.com How does it feel, how does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, …like a rolling stone. Ah Dylan. He gets it so right so often. It’s a glib shot at Jorge [...]

Intense, joyful, colourful, loud, exciting. Yep, that’s India. For once, we weren’t the only ones not there. We live an intense (joyful etc) life in the bunker of happiness and we’re happy with [...]

Photo: motogp.com It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola* Firstly, a serious note Mike Trimby was more important than any rider of any era.  His death is a big loss to [...]

Photo: Michelin Motorsport It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… …it was Catalunya. Somewhere in this mad bad sad world we live in, a cat has woken and is taking a [...]

Austria! So easily confused by the simple (Americans) for Australia.  Luckily for all of us, its circuits are poles apart.  Phillip Island and the Red Bull Ring are as comparable as Alberto Puig [...]

Photo: motogp.com   There is a House in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun…* Here’s what you’re going to get this round; a stream of unconscious waffle as I sat and typed notes at [...]

What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, the Italians gave us Mugello.  And Agostini, and Rossi, and Ducati.  On the downside they also gave us Uccio.  Oh well, swings and roundabouts. Mugello [...]