It started pretty early on day one with a 7am flight from Melbourne to Brisbane, then a bus ride up to Caloundra, the start of the Sunshine Coast in sunny Queensland, to pick up my new (s/h) Ducati Multistrada 1200 S, a 2011 model with 6,000kays on the clock. I got to Motolife around midday and …
Scotland is filled with towns’ names I can’t pronounce properly, Ecclefechan, Auchinlech, Kirkintilloch etc each day I just pick a random destination on the map, fill in the gaps with nearby town names and hit the road. No GPS, just my iPhone and a general sense that if I get ultimately lost, I can head …
So it is that I find myself holidaying the UK with the forecast for a perfect Scottish summer with the temps in the low to mid twenties for almost two weeks in a row – and thought this is it, get a bike now and take advantage of the great weather. Sadly, much like last time …
The yellow is a tad yellow for my liking but I warmed to it enough, this is an aggressive little beast that’ll whip you back in your chair pretty hard, so the bumble bee theme kinda just fit. I got a pretty good feel for it, some tight ugly traffic getting out of the city, …
First bike was a 1978 RM125 when I was fourteen years old. I was keen on motocross and still ride dirt today. My current dirt bike is a Husaberg 390 enduro. My sports bike fall into three categories. The vintage bikes are a 1973 Ducati 750 Sport, a 1981 Ducati 900ss, and a 1984 …
Ihad the chance to sit on one at the 08 bike show; it was a yellow Sport1000 single shock monoposto. I’m taller than the average Ducati rider (riders in general for that matter) so aside from being able straddle and near sit on the bike without taking a foot off the ground it sank down …
I‘ve been crushing on the Sport GT 1000 for while now, if I had the cash I’d find a clean second hand one (they don’t make them anymore) and put one in my shed. But not knowing much about the class or models of the bike I wasn’t sure what I was looking at really. In …