Local Knowledge
Northern Lake Tahoe is still having these odd (to me) spring snow storms, wherein the weather will be cool but sunny one moment and dumping snow the next. A completed round of golf these days is by no means a sure bet, as one moment you can be enjoying your self-induced misery on the links […]
Talk about a Win-Win!
Our new MotoMatters.com t-shirt is now available for pre-order here! As silly season starts, you can remind those around you what motorcycle racing is really all about AND support your favorite news and race-recap website, MotoMatters.com. Please help keep the reporting, analysis and photography coming to you direct from the MotoGP and WSBK paddocks while […]
Latest Riders for Health donation
This photo of Nicky Hayden at Qatar will be auctioned off for Riders for Health at this weekend’s Quail Motorcycle Gathering in Carmel, CA. Please check it out if you’re in the area and want to see some great motorcycles. The photo is offered as a 16×24 canvas wrap, which normally sells on my website […]
Let’s Eat Fewer Rocks
One of the noticeable things about the 2010 MotoGP bikes in Qatar was how the Ducatis all had a kind of mesh cover over the exhaust pipe. I asked around a bit and never found an explanation. Should’ve asked someone at Ducati, obviously, because this unique feature was just explained over at MotoMatters.com in an […]
Fire In The Desert
The story of Rossi’s glowing brake discs For a year I had a unique photograph. As far as I could tell, after searching everywhere I could think of, I was the only one who’d gone to the entrance of Turn 1 at Losail in 2009 and captured the glowing brakes as the MotoGP riders as […]
East Meets West For Fries and a Shake
This post was written Monday, April 12th, in Doha, Qatar. As I sit in the Doha airport waiting for my flight, an old man in a white dress is playing a harmonica softly in the corner of the waiting area. Every now and then he changes to a song I know, but most of the […]
Ritual
We had a pleasant but strange drive back from the track just before 5AM this morning. The sun was rising to our left, barely perceptibly at first, but the soft blow glow on the horizon grew stronger as we approached downtown Doha. I was sorry we’d missed the morning call to prayer: I quite like […]
Working Early
Went to bed at 5 AM last night, I mean, this morning, and slept until Wheeler knocked on my door 8 hours later. Feeling pretty good and a decent night’s sleep! Not a lot of comment in today’s post, just a few photos from the trip around town yesterday.
Working Late
The demise last year of the Friday morning practice session means that day 1 in Qatar doesn’t start until well into the evening, and with one practice session per class we were done and heading back to the media center just before midnight. BMW is a series sponsor of MotoGP, and Losail has the nicest […]
We’re not in Kansas
Just a short post for now as this crazy schedule has gotten the better of me. We left the track at about 2:30 AM last night, erm, this morning. I finally got into bed at 4 AM, and managed to sleep for six and a half hours, straight, woot! Tonight is the late night, as […]