bikes

normally my attitude towards sports tools is very simple: if it’s got an engine it is a most welcome addition to our family collection. if it has none i take a more relaxed attitude: i completely relax and pretend it’s not there. i’m not saying i have changed too much in that respect, but a…

hehe. fun fun fun. no, i’m not a speed freak, but i guess it is kind of part of a motorcycle life. speed in itself has many different ‘definitions’: on an enduro even speeds below 100 kmh can be very fast, e.g. when you go down a sandy straight and most of the time the…

i don’t know who says the weather in the netherlands sucks. whoever it is clearly has no clue. we had 2 great weeks in the beginning of april, then 2 or 3 rainy days, and now it’s again sunny & warm (almost 20 degrees!). which is why we had a day out. i spent most…

this is the sad story about the glorious rise & terminal fall of my trailer project. those of you who would like to know the full story just read on. those who find it a bit hard to chew through lines & lines of english text just check out the pictures at the end of the article.…

it is a well know fact you can get addicted to all sorts of things. alkohol, drugs, gambling, women (probably the most dangerous of all), but most people don’t seem to know you can get addicted to enduro racing, too. funny, but i really know a lot of guys who quit – family issues, needed…

finished my first dutch enduro! not a big deal? well … maybe not, although i tend to think that riding off road for 4.5 hours is pretty good under any circumstances. dutch enduro tracks may not be too technically challenging, but … let me explain. the start is already pretty tough. no, not the start…

a weekend with the yam and about 300 km around the country. obviously it is still a bit early for a definitive judgement, but i think some first impressions may be interesting. there is a number of ‘firsts’ related to the purchase of this bike. it is my first bike – with a fairing –…

ok, the ducati was a beautiful bike, but there was a couple of issues i became increasingly unhappy about: the carb setting just didn’t work out, especially in cold and / or wet weather riding the bike was a drag. it was not very comfortable, especially for the one on the back seat, and above…

ok, not long ago you received a mail detailing all the interesting things that happen here day by day, or rather the fact that interesting things fail to happen on a daily basis which makes writing these reports increasingly difficult. anyway, this week was definitely better, it is only thursday and there is already two…

i always had a soft spot for ducati. for italian bikes, really. and apart from the 998 series i felt the monster was the best representation of what ducati was about: a desmo engine suspended in an artwork of a trellis frame. and the typical ducati sound, the unmistakable 90 deg twin cylinder throbbing. where…