The Kneeslider

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Rossi out driving Ferraris again

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For a guy who kept getting so angry this past season every time someone mentioned Formula One and Ferrari and testing and leaving MotoGP and all of those gossipy kinds of things, Valentino Rossi sure does his share to keep the rumors going. The MotoGP season has barely finished and he's out tooling around for three days in a Scuderia Ferrari F1 car at Fiorano and Mugello. I … [Read more...]

Umbrella Girls USA

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Who came up with the idea of having great looking women holding umbrellas over racers gathering on the starting grid? Let's face it, their whole job lasts about 5 minutes. They run out there, hold an umbrella, smile at any camera that comes by and that's it. Everyone on the grid pretends not to notice them but the fans sure do. But, there was a problem. Up until a few years … [Read more...]

Tourist Trophy for PS2 from Sony

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For those of you who are a lot more proficient on game consoles than I am, Sony has just announced their Tourist Trophy motorcycle racing game for the PS2 which will be released in the Spring of 2006. If you jump over to their site they have a video clip and some images of the bikes. There are 35 race courses and over 80 different bikes and the images look superb. Now I am … [Read more...]

Screamin Eagle Destroyer runs low nines

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Back in July Harley Davidson introduced their Screamin Eagle Destroyer, a race only version of the V-Rod. Talk of nine second quarter miles when in the right hands sounded pretty decent for a Harley but no independent runs were available to know what it would really do. Motorcyclist magazine got to try one at the strip, and instead of sending a quarter mile pro, they gave … [Read more...]