Sometimes I wonder if I’ve bitten off more that I can chew. For our Monster 696 review, we’re attempting to do a proper video review. We’re not talking some guy who brings his helmet cam to a press launch, but something similar to what we do for the car side with OutDrive.ca. The thing is…
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The Monster 696 Test Blog – One of Four
Our Monster 696 is one of four in North America, air freighted in for display and showcase it’s shocking that the folks at Ducati trust us with its care. True, certain threats on my life were made should anything go wrong, but I’m not out to abuse the privilege. Technically at this instant we’re ripping…
Gary Eagan and the 1098 S vs. Cannonball
OneWheelDrive.Net contributor and long distance rider Gary Eagan is at it again, and this time he’s taking on one of motorsport’s most notorious challenges, the Cannonball Run. If that isn’t intriguing enough Gary won’t be riding a soft continent crossing tourer, no it’s the Ducati 1098 S for him. Oh, and there’s a little matter…
OMG! A Monster!
We don’t normally do teasers, but we’re pretty excided here at OneWheelDrive.Net, we’re getting a chance to test one of the first Monster 696s in North America. We’re not talking about a guided and scheduled to the nines press launch either. This Monster 696 has been air-freighted from Italy and that gives us a unique…
Horsepower and Happiness – The Wrong Equation?
At the Vancouver Motorcycle show, I glanced over the ZX-14, 2008 Hayabusa and B-King and set up a date with the Ducati 1098 R for later in the year. To a one the horsepower figures are astounding, driven upwards by a market with the “more is better” philosophy. I’ve some bad news for consumers and…
Passions Lost and Found
Occasionally you lose your way. That happened to me this fall in the context of OneWheelDrive.Net. In the intervening months this has lead to a lot of self-analysis, a foray into auto testing and a reconsideration of riding. In the end I think OneWheelDrive.Net may be better for it, allow me to explain.
2007 Ducati Hypermotard Race Project
For the 2007 Canada Thunder Series (a national level racing series dedicated to air-cooled twins) racer Paul Penzo and Crew Chief John Boddy participated in a very special venture – the World’s first Hypermotard Racing Project. At the invite of Ducati we were given the opportunity to crawl around the pits and bring you some…
DNW 2007: Ducati 1098S vs. Ford GT
Piloted by Michael Czysz of MotoCzysz, and with Ducati North America head Michael Locke in the passenger seat, the Ford GT slingshots out of Turn 9 and onto PIR’s front straight. Five seconds later, running an arm’s reach from the cement wall, the GT is halfway down the straight… just as Doug Polen enters the…
Ducati North West 2007: Nine Turns
Coming into turn 9 at Portland International Raceway, the host track for MotoCorsa’s 2007 Ducati North West, Adam Faussett (#240) on the Ducati 1098 runs onto the track exit lane, then tips-in. From my perspective Adam’s trajectory arcs across a section of cement patchwork, cuts perilously close to the red and white candy-striped shoulder, eases…
Doug Polen’s US MotoGP Laguna Seca Track Walk
Have you ever wondered what goes through a racer’s mind as they dive into Laguna Seca’s Corkscrew? On the cusp of the 2007 US MotoGP we may have the answer. Last year we attended a track walk with Doug Polen, a man who should know. In 1993, Doug reigned supreme over the American Motorcyclist Association…
An ‘Excessive’ Fix
Constable Gillespie of the Squamish RCMP detachment has built to the denouement of the ticket issuing procedure, the mandatory tale of cleaning up a motorcycle accident on the Sea To Sky.
‘Speedism’
3 AM and thanks to red wine fueled tossing and turning sleep is eluding me, so I concede the hunt and pick up reading in the living room. Kingdom of Fear, is Hunter S. Thompson at his best and worst; disjointed, confused and on the verge of psychotic break, through to cunning lucid and sharply…
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