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12 Assen Netherlands 2012 MotoGP
10 Silverstone Great Britain 2012 MotoGP
4 Motegi Japan 2011 MotoGP
29 Misano Circuit San Marino 2011 MotoGP
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12 Misano Circuit San Marino 2011 MotoGP
12 Mugello Italy 2011 MotoGP
35 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2011 MotoGP
30 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2011 MotoGP
8 Jerez Spain 2011 MotoGP
8 Phillip Island Australia 2010 MotoGP
15 Sepang Circuit Malaysia 2010 MotoGP
9 Misano Circuit San Marino 2010 MotoGP
26 Catalunya 2010 MotoGP
3 Assen Netherlands 2010 MotoGP
14 Mugello Italy 2010 MotoGP
9 Le Mans France 2010 MotoGP
36 Le Mans France 2010 MotoGP
10 Indianapolis 2010 MotoGP
1 Misano Circuit San Marino 2009 MotoGP
4 Misano Circuit San Marino 2009 MotoGP
18 Indianapolis 2009 MotoGP
12 Misano Circuit San Marino 2008 MotoGP
22 Estoril Circuit Portugal 2007 MotoGP
 

Idle Musings on Riding Through Life

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Idle Musings on Riding Through Life

An intensive care unit (ICU) is a great place to think – there is so much time on your hands at all hours of the day and night, and you get to meet all these really nice people. The problem is you really can't focus on much, the shadows dance against the wall and change. I blame it on the...

Published on July 20 2018, 14:03
Source: www.motorcycle.com
 
 

Note: Motorcycles have affected every facet of my life, and I bet yours too. But few lives have been as altered as much by motorcycles as my friend Don Cook's. He told me his story over lunch one day and I had to include it in Ienatsch Tuesday. If you know a "young Don," I hope this story helps... 

On the morning of September 11th 2001, I was in New York City, thinking about motorcycles. Specifically, a Ducati and a Honda: my perfect RC45, which I had agreed to trade to a guy in the Midwest for his 1991 Ducati 851 SP3. Both bikes were World Superbike homologation specials, which the... 

During a professional motorcycle roadracing career that spanned nearly two decades, four-time AMA national champion Eric Bostrom competed in eight FIM Superbike World Championship races. His best finish was fourth in 2002 on a factory Kawasaki ZX-7RR at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Kawasaki... 

Coach Can Akkaya created his Superbike-Coach school after being surprised and underwhelmed by the training motorcyclists were receiving in the United States. He tells an interesting anecdote about easily finishing the DMV motorcycle test shortly after arriving in America, just after another... 

It's very easy to jump to quick conclusions during the early stages of a season. Momentum swings from one bike to another, and while some riders are ascending, others are having an off weekend. However, the third round of the Superbike World Championship has definitely shown that Chaz Davies and... 

In the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to take some extended rides at night – most recently my return from this past weekend's World Superbike round at Laguna Seca. As I frequently do, when I have a bunch of saddle time on my hands, I started noodling on something to while away the... 

Whenever former staffer, and now MO contributor and guest columnist, Gabe Ets-Hokin, talks about bromances, as he did in his recent Skidmarks column, further investigation is needed. In his column, Gabe talks about his first time meeting Lee Parks, forming an instant bond with the riding skills...