Harley shoots for younger demographic and it just might work...

[John Ranalletta]

Start with these:

 

 

Then, mount two XR1200 on computer-driven dynos and have race fans beat the crap out them for a quarter mile drag race. The instructions were:

• Red line the engine
• Drop the clutch

These bikes took a beating from dawn 'til dust with nary a failure of motor or clutch. Is there a Harley Davidson XR1200 (Youtube) in LJR's future? Larry won this race by .04ths of a second.

 

Some random (and not very good) shots from MotoGP:

 

Roger Hayden and Kevin Schwantz on Speed stage:

 

 

Roger on the bottom of this pile in 1st lap:

 

 

Nicky on Speed stage:

 

 

Rossi (practice)

 

 

Nicky (practice)

 

 

Edwards (practicing start)

 

 

 

[mbelectric]

Sure liked that first photo...

 

Couldn't help but notice the track workers in the 3rd photo (red bibs)..No performance awards there..shhessh, where we getting these folks?

 

Nice report, thanks.

 

MB>

[Danny caddyshack Noonan]

Holy cow! I may have a new avatar! But, neither of them have a flag.

[LJR]

How in the world did I miss them?

 

[John Ranalletta]

Not sure. Perhaps, you were too involved with the XR. I was on the trailer stairs when they exited the trailer. Unfortunately, I have a silicone allergy and started to sneeze.

 

BTW, the Ducati's CEO, Gabriele del Torchio, traded a brand new, yet un-built 796 Monster IOM with ABS for that Ducati Indiana in Ducati Island owned by Linda Warburton. Bad deal IMO.

 

This:

 

 

For this:

 

[LJR]

Must have wanted to get that thing off the street.

[James Clark]

Not sure. Perhaps, you were too involved with the XR. I was on the trailer stairs when they exited the trailer. Unfortunately, I have a silicone allergy and started to sneeze.

 

BTW, the Ducati's CEO, Gabriele del Torchio, traded a brand new, yet un-built 796 Monster IOM with ABS for that Ducati Indiana in Ducati Island owned by Linda Warburton. Bad deal IMO.

 

This:

 

 

For this:

 

 

She should have held out for a Desmosedici?

[Francois_Dumas]

First picture is okay... but because of it Nina doesn't approve of harleys now anymore......