For a time I hated my hyper, its impracticality, its tiny fuel tank, lack of storage, protection from the elements the list goes on. At one stage I was even considering selling it. I’m glad I didn’t because the latest round of mods have had me smiling ear to ear over and over again. …
Crash protection on a naked usually takes form in the way of sliders. Frame sliders and axle sliders being the most common. The good old Oggy Knob has become synonymous with most bikers at least knowing of them. I’m hoping that some simple axle sliders can really take the sting out of long down times …
Iusually do a big ride once a year with a group of mates, which has been going for six years now (dubbed ADR – Australia Day Ride) and fluctuates in numbers from the original six up to 18 last year (which was a bit ridiculous). This weekend is a new edition to the annual itinerary and has …
So it was today that I hit the road for a blast up some of my favourite Melbourne roads through Whittlesea into Yea; it’s maybe an hour and a half ride really once you get out of the traffic but it’s the superbly smooth wide single lane roads that wind and climb up into the …
It seems like forever ago that I was up at silly hours of the morning waiting for the news to finally hit – that there would be three new bikes in the family, all based on a new 820 donk and no 1100 effectively signing the end of the air-cooled era over to the Monster …
On auto-pilot I dropped it off at Ducati City at 8:30am and picked it up Saturday at 10am, considering the sweltering 41degree heat outside, I was more than happy to sit that one out and hide inside amongst the air conditioning. My three jobs: replace tail tidy and indicators, check exhaust leak and complete …
I don’t know where it ends, but once you start doing mods to your Ducati the journey seems to be a long and winding road. Which currently leads to Quickshifters. I have some bad influencers in my life ‘enabling’ my every desire to make my Hyper faster and faster (you know who you are) so …