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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…

i am a huge ktm fan, but let’s give credit where credit is due: it was yamaha, not ktm, who revolutionized the dirt bike world. the yzf 400 was the first ‘modern’ dirt bike, with an engine that was a lot lighter, faster revving than anything that had been around previously. with the exception of…