Alright, its been a while, but I’m still alive and doing well (although I do have the flu currently). Just before I moved over to Italy I was invited on a 16 day european motorcycle ride. A group was forming with the goal to travel from Italy, ferry to Greece and end in Spain where we’d ferry back. My plan is going to…

As seen here I’m making the ~3000 mi drive across the country, and I’m wondering what do to with my time.

Alright, fellow oppo’s I haven’t given this much thought until now but I have a big drive coming up. As most of you know, I’m headed across the Atlantic to take up residence in Italy. But before that trek, I need to make it from the sun-drenched paradise that is San Deigo, to the east coast (somewhere in BFE NC to be…

So between actual work, trying to work out (running sucks, remember that kids) and packing everything up for a transcontinental move, my days have been rather busy. The pending unemployment is like an elephant in the room on speed, riding a unicycle, with a freaking kazoo. Needless to say, I’m concerned about being…

Sometimes I look at slices of my life and realize it can’t get much better. My mundane Sunday errands ended just in time for me to jump on the Duke and meet some friends to watch the MotoGP race. Within minutes of putting Milk in the fridge I was engrossed in the pinnacle of Motorcycle racing. Simply put, sitting…

Let me preface this with I LOVE racing - cars, trucks, and motorcycles - be it on road or off. Heck, I even like to watch boat racing, but confess to knowing virtually nothing about it. I LOVE competition. The unwavering quest for speed, and the innovation it creates, is intoxicating to me. When it trickles down to…

I know we have some seriously creative people on here and I’d love to know if anyone happens to be a web designer or graphic artist? I’d love some help for a project that I’m starting. So if any of you petrol heads to freelance work let me know!

Sometimes having friends in the motorcycle industry has its perks. For instance getting a new Shoei X-fourteen for a few days and them telling you “to send it back in the same condition.” While most people would keep this amazing piece of equipment under lock and key, we had other ideas. After receiving the “you break…

and here is a little video... GO USA!

I was back at Streets of Willow this last weekend with Track Xperience. I was in the beginners group again, and took their “new riders school” which was awesome. I had the chance to run the course in the CCW configuration which I’m not such a huge fan of... but it was still track time. These are two videos of the last…

I spent this last Saturday having a blast with the California SuperBike School at the Streets of Willow. Please try to control your laughter as it is my first bike track day.

For a long time I had a great number of cars to drive. They were of all shapes, sizes and legal status. I’ve had everything from a fire breathing Corvette race car, to a Dodge ram that probably dwarfed the Titanic. This meant on any given day I could grab a set of keys and one of my four wheeled vehicles would whisk…

I remember the first time like it was yesterday. I was driving my Subaru in a line of cars on a cold track toward the “turn off in the back.” We were going to a place I had never been before, tucked way into the back of Summit Point Motorsports Park. This place would eventually turn into my Mecca, but right then, I…

I can remember most of my life saying “I’d kill myself on one of those” as I’d look at a Ducati thunder past. But I’d still stare, longingly as one would pass because of the allure, the perfectly sculpted of the red panels, the throaty rhythmic melody of a glorious V-Twin. Hell, even the ability to pin the throttle…

I’ve owned this thing for nearly a month and its taken me that long to carve out some “me time.” So this weekend I went out for nearly 200 miles to play on the roads of SoCal. They didn’t disappoint!

So this just happened at work

I will be the first to admit that, recently, I've been a little tired of the usual automotive journalist. You know exactly who I'm talking about, they're the ones that describe a Lincolns steering feedback as "tactile", or a Buicks brake pedal as "firm and unwavering" during repeated abuse. These journalists probably…

Now, I'm a car guy. which is to say I've done nearly everything there is to do in and around cars... except be a live spectator at races. I've seen exactly 1.5 professional races in person. My first (the .5) was a Grand-Am race at Watkins Glen where I crewed for TPC racing. I got to fetch tires and other things, warm…