“Ducati is holding a press launch in Spain at the end of the month, but refused to tell us what bike the launch was for.”

Hopefully it weighs less than it looks.

My beard remains theoretical.

The L.A. Metro’s looking pretty decent these days...

Looks like pretty standard stuff to me, man. That Yamaha may be a single, but it’s no hot-shot hand grenade.

I used to have problems with their anti-fog coating losing its effectiveness after as little as a month of daily riding through cold, wet conditions. I solved the problem by moving.

A WR250R will need a valve adjustment at 24,000 miles in the same way that it will *maybe* need a new piston after 100,000 miles or so. You’re thinking of supermotards converted from motocross race bikes, which (as you elude) will run rings around a WR- briefly.

They’ve made much ado about their new modular liner system for this helmet (each shell size has three different sets of liner pieces that can be separately ordered and popped in mix-and-match), but I’m skeptical as to how variable internal head shape really gets with this system. Could you get your hands on some…