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*Liam's Wild Ride*

Here's a shot for you two stroke lovers. I didn't know chupa chups was a sponsor!

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Here's the last one for today. OJ is one of my personal favorites. He was working the Kawi hard.

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Hey Liam. That's a cool X5. When you get back to America, come to my work. I'll let you test drive a 4.8is X5. It's the top of the line X5. It'll push you against the seat pretty good. If that doesn't please you. We got the new M5. That thing is sweet!
 
During the testing I was able to meet one of my motorcycle heroes, Sir Alan Cathcart. We spoke at length about many things and we concluded that if MotoGP is like Mecca, then World Superbike is true Christianity. Haha, it's insights like this that keep it fun. Here is Sir Alan onboard the Desmosedici getting a helping push from Loris Capirossi. Immediately following the push Sir Alan *GASP* Stalled the bike! Everyone had a good chuckle and after a restart Sir Alan took off!

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Right now it's about 3 in the afternoon and I'm sitting in a coffeeshop that one of my roomates found. It has free Wi-FI!!! Not only is this place about three blocks from my apartment, the atmosphere is really laid back and I am sure to get a lot of work done here. They don't mind if I plug the power adapter in, either, which is a big deal in power conservative Spain. No matter what's going on my roomates are constantly turning the lights off and it's always dark in my place. I wonder if this is a sort of mental/psychological holdover from the dark ages?

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I first found this place late last night and I ran into a couple Americanos! Turns out the coffeshop is run by a mother/daughter team and the daughter, Jana, is dating Kenny, the son of Dennis Noyes. Dennis is the famed American rider/journalist, currently working for Solo Moto. Here they are working on some articles for Road Racing World and Speed TV, online. What a coincidence, huh?!?

To find out more about Kenny log onto
www.kennynoyes.com

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This journal is great! Keep it coming!

And, yes, I am very jealous!!!
 
Here's some more practice shots. Can you tell me what's wrong with this picture? I believe it's Dovisioso, 250cc rookie of the year.

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This is Luca, the rep for Spidi leathers in the GP paddock. He's got great style on the bike but if I put the whole picture up you'd see his line through 2 is all wrong.

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During the week I was there the team loaned me a scooter and a helmet so I could get around after the race. On race days I simply stuck out my thumb and because of my fancy team gear someone always picked me up and gave me a ride to the track in the morning. This scooter was 50cc and went about 35 MPH. It was fun riding it around but when I first got it I drove home and promptly ran out of gas. I had thought maybe the gauge was busted but I was wrong. Whoops! Oh well, pushing it was easy and in about ten minutes I was at the gas station next to the freeway.

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This is Kent Kunitsugu from Sport Rider Magazine testing the Duc. I gave him a bunch of pictures I took so cross your fingers and hope he uses one. I could use some magazine exposure to help me in case I need to talk to Dorna and get a press credential to take photos in the future. Can anybody help me?

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Bingo, Mackey! The HRC tests we set up rather quickly and it was run what you brung so to speak. The originals of all these track photos are really crackin' but because BARF won't let me load the big files the res. is pretty low. A common sight in the evenings at the hotel bar was me having an Amstel and chopping photos.

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