[Ducati] Happy New Year!

[Kevin Kachadourian]

To all my fellow ducatisti:
 
May we all have a full, and fulfilling, new year. Here's to a long and varied road, complete with every twist and turn that leaves you laughing out loud inside your helmet. Here's to the slips and slides that quicken our hearts, and remind us we are alive and o so fragile and mortal; may they leave us unscathed,... and also laughing out loud inside our helmets. Here's to the support, assistance and camradarie that our shared passion brings us. Here's to those of us I've already met, and whose company I've enjoyed (and whose roadside assistance I appreciate more than I can say); and to those I've yet to meet, wherever you are. Here's to another great weekend at Laguna Seca and Hill House (the check's in the mail). And, of course, here's to the continued success of the Ducati motorcycle and marque, both on the racetrack and on the road (not to mention in the production and sales numbers).
 
Keep the rubber side down, the shiny side up, and the Sun out of your eyes. Ride on.
 
Kevin Kachadourian
'85 650 Alazzurra (the temporary king of the stable, and a fine one at that)
'96 900SS SP (marking the new year at the Winter training camp in Chico)
 
PS the only glitch here is that I am still pulling for Capirossi to secure the title that was stolen from him 2 seasons ago; hoping that Suzuki can give him an 800cc bike that better suits his style than the Ducati of last season did, and that he has at least one more year in him of peak riding in him ("Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability." David Brent)