First of all, the news out of Spain regarding Kawasaki superbike rider, Joan Lascorz, is not good, as this article from crash.net indicates.
Whichever way you choose to say it, it is looking increasingly likely that the popular Spaniard is going to be at least a paraplegic. So sad for someone so young.
This weekend is the annual Bol d’Or 24 hour endurance race in France. Both the Cudlin boys are competing and you can follow the race with live timing. There are a number of choices just by searching on Google, but, unfortunately, it looks like they may all be in French. Oh well. Wait till the book comes out, I guess.
In other news closer to home, my brother, bless his little cotton socks, has decided to buy the nice blue VFR in Sydney and we went to Sydney on Friday to pick it up and bring it home. It looks to be the goods and I know that he’ll just have a ball riding a bike with mid-range after spending the last 7 years riding a Japanese I4 600 bike.
I do like the polished rims. I always wanted to do that with mine, but finances never allowed.
Valentino Rossi has come out and denied (in a very round about way, I must say) that he and Ducati are about to part company. I think it would have been better to have said nothing because all the “denial” has done has given the press something more to dissect and in which to look for hidden meanings.
I love weekends. Having my wife at home for the two days is great and we’ve started the mammoth project of cleaning out my in-laws’s shed in the back yard. Helena’s dad is in a nursing home with advanced dementia and won’t ever be coming home and her mum passed away over 12 months ago. It’s taken this long for her to have plucked up the nerve and the desire to clean dad’s shed and dispose of the mountain of their things that have been stored in there, some of it for nearly 8 years. It’s been very hard for her, but also very rewarding as she has found old passports and a lot of documentation relating to their immigration to Australia from Finland in 1959.
When the shed finally is cleaned out it will become the home for the Shadowfax Kawasaki where it will live under a cover until it’s needed. I only have a single car garage and it’s also my workshop so the ‘Fax will live in its own shed and give me room to use the garage as a workshop. I’m really looking forward to having it home, I can tell you.
Seconds round of the BSB this weekend and it will be a three-race affair with the first race being the Heat 2 from last weekend that was cancelled because of torrential rain at Brands Hatch. Go, the Aussies.
Well, that’s it for today. Have a great weekend wherever you are and I’ll catch you again early in the week.
Oh, and best wishes to one of my “regulars”, “gearsu” as he continues to recover from a stroke last year. Chin up, Pete, you can do it, I know you can.