world superbike delivers the goods

carlos checa stalked and walked in both legs of the first round of world superbike in australia. marco melandri had an awesome battle with leon haslam for 3rd place, haslam would of course come out on top for the bottom of the box, max biaggi (current world superbike champion) nabbed second ripping around on the v4 aprilia. race 2 the battle was for 2nd place, and at times the bikes were nearly 4 wide, bitchen action that was truly some of the best superbike racing since colin edwards and troy bayliss last battled in the series. this time mad max biaggi and marco melandri would duke it out for the second and third spot on the podium, melandris yamaha would get long tracked by biaggis aprilia at the end of the straight, although biaggi would not gap his italian countryman he did take the second spot in true roman emperor fashion.
all of this racing was delivered commercial free from eurosport, complete with pre race grid shots and plenty of post race stuff as well. the europeans just plain get it right, no bullshit, lots of cool shots you just plain dont get with the crap american coverage. watered down is to put it mildly.
in all the glory of action, the camera focused mainly on the battles behind carlos checa, but when he came into view it reminded me of the way a certain carl fogarty worked his craft on the good old 916 ducati. go checa!

one year ago last week-ish...

it has been a little over one year since our last post, many things have changed, most notably the website is gone for the time being.
we had some staff changes, beyond our control, and the crew is now smaller in size, but still breathing, and ready to give it a go.
motorcycle racing in the u.s. has changed some since we were here last, gone are the factories, the big rigs, bright lights etc. todays AMA race will closely resemble a big club race, remember the GSXR nationals?
these days our focus is on the world superbike championship, and motoGP, with a little supermoto thrown in when we can, remember the red bull series?
as soon as time and dollars allow, we will have the site back up, with all the pics that are missing from here, and for now we will update through the blog. if you were a follower and found us again, thanks for stopping by, if this is your first time, welcome to our blog.

nitro nori haga

nitro nori fell in practice and made a quick visit to the local hospital for a check up. he was back in time for superpole but was knocked out by shakey shane byrne. he will be sore come sunday...

world superbike here we come!

we have clean socks and underwear packed, ready to leave on our first ever visit to the miller motorsports park for world superbike. rabid and max have batteries charged and the fuel tank is full. when we get to internet civilization we will post.