Bike n stuff

Hi All,

Bikes, I love them. They're almost as varied as women and safer and less trouble in the long run. Bikes I can understand, women are a constant shifting sand dune. Don't know where I'm going with that analogy but that's not the point. Both women and bikes are wonderful, but bikes are easier to maintain and don't crack the shits for unknowable reasons.

I'm off to a track day at Phillip Island at the end of this month. It's a HRCA event which means not only to I get to fang my P&J around the circuit but I get to sample Honda's latest and greated too. I'm particularly keen to try, in descending order, the VTR1000, CBR600/1000 and the VFR800 (mostly to confirm my VFR is better). It'll be only my second go on a track so it's al still very exciting! Fingers crossed nothing expensive happens.

Troy Corser, legend. Suzuki, fantastic GSXR1000. Combination? SBK World Champion if the start to the season is anything to go by. I never got around to finishing my SBK wrap up but I'm slack like that and no one reads this stuff anyway. Well the actual race at PI was truly superb. Watching it from a rain-soaked Siberia Corner was a hoot and seeing an Aussie carve them up was the icing on the cake.

Now Troy is sitting on 182 points from team mate Kagayama on 130 with the great Chris Vermeulen in third on 115. The Suzuki team just seems to be killing the others at the moment so expect some amazing racing in 2006 once the other unofficial Factory teams get their act together. This season is all Suzuki though. Ducati must be seriously worried with last year's world champ James Toseland struggling down in the middle of the field on an uncompetitive twin. There are rumours of a V4 Duke road bike to meet homolgation rules and I for one hope it comes about. Wait an see.

The world of MotoGP is back into it's predictable groove. Rossi is beating up on his opposition like a bunch of man-bitches. Gibernau is still chasing and sucking and sooking, Biaggi is valiant but will never be the champion, Nicky Hayden is trying but still not there yet, Troy Bayliss is really having a hard time getting used to the Honda after being a Ducati man for so long. I'm in the process of working out accommodation for the week and already it's near impossible to find a place. Shits me to tears to see how much they jack up the prices but there you go.

On the up side for the Aussies, Casy Stoner has 2 wins from 4 starts and is looking very strong. After an accident plagued last season on the 125 it's great to see him really make a mark. Go Casy!

Well that's it for now,
Catch ya later...