Someone needs to be jealous of me right now, and if You won’t do it, I’ll have to. Sitting poolside at the Riviera Golf Club right now, relaxing after a ride on Ducati’s newest Monster baby, the bike in pole position to make people wonder why in heck they ever considered a 696. For $9995, … [more]
Prepare to Monster
11-June-2010 by 2 Comments
There’s a Monster out there with my name on it, literally. Specifically, a Ducati Monster 796, their new model with the single-sided swingarm, spiffin’ new headlight and other tasty bits. A little gold foil stickie on the tank says “LEWIS.” This may be important later; take the wrong Monster out of the paddock at Misano … [more]
What I do for fun (and profit?)
4-May-2010 by Leave a Comment
So here’s the deal: I write for Motorcyclist magazine, and I’d like you to subscribe. I like working for Motorcyclist. They’re good people and my editor is great, but nobody gets rich writing for magazines so again, I’d like you to subscribe (am I making it clear that I’d like you to subscribe? I subscribed … [more]
Lost again.
17-April-2010 by 6 Comments
I was supposed to link up with the Harley guys. “It’s easy,” Eitan said, a week ago when I picked up his big, black hog. Had he known I was going to use it to chase medics around through Tel Aviv and Jerusalem traffic, he might not have been sanguine about dropping the key … [more]
SPU – Jerusalem
13-April-2010 by 1 Comment
Filtering Jerusalem traffic, two-up on a long-wheelbase hog, in the sun at paddling speeds, is exhausting. We rode into the square where the Western Wall is. You don’t DO that, but we did. Special Police Unit were our escorts. The SPU aren’t exactly “cops” in the traditional sense. Ask them whether they are more “cop” … [more]
Tel-Aviv
12-April-2010 by 2 Comments
We busted through traffic like gun-mounted Strykers, siren wailing and blipping like a mad, mad metronome, then snaked down a brick pathway to the segregated orthodox beach (it’s Man Night today) where a boy had nearly drowned in the unusually high surf, which we could see pounding the breakwater and busting higher into the air … [more]
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