[Ducati] MotoGP and limits (not a spoiler)

[Kevin Kachadourian]

So I watched Rimini today. It seems that Drona has kicked down for some better graphics at the medium resolution level. I could really see some up-close riding this race. This got me to thinking. I remember how I used to go hell bent for leather on my Suzuki 450: thrashing the nuts off the thing, hanging off it, riding loose to let it flail about underneath me. I could see in the video today, that the MotoGP racers are doing the same thing, only with bikes that are so many generations beyond my old nail of a 450, that you can't even compare. This gets back to a regular observation - about limits. Back on that Suzuki, I hit the bike's limits long before I hit mine or the road's (except for that one ride on Chen Shin tires). This was good. Now I'm on a bike that has limits beyond the road's, and probably past mine. The Desmodedici? Anyway, the point is this: one of the great things about riding the Alazzurra, with it's sloppy froont end and crap suspension, is how I can go back to the old "hell bent" days, and ride at the bike's limits. Whoo-ee!
 
Kevin Kachadourian
'96 900SS SP (whoomp)
'85 650 Alazzurra (whoosh)