A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 5 – A Matter of Necessity
Wed, 23/01/08 – 2:00 | Comment

Will the marine layer ever relent?
Into Crescent City the “jumps” have been lengthened to the 1098S’ maximum safe range, 120 miles, out of necessity.  In response, my body is betraying me.    That’s making it …

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A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 5 – A Matter of Necessity
Wednesday, 23 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 5 – A Matter of Necessity

Will the marine layer ever relent?
Into Crescent City the “jumps” have been lengthened to the 1098S’ maximum safe range, 120 miles, out of necessity.  In response, my body is betraying me.    That’s making it …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 4 – 80 Miles
Monday, 21 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 4 – 80 Miles

I’ve made navigational errors before, tons of them, but this one feels profound.  The fog is so dense I can hardly make out the cat’s eye reflectors on the road in the 1098S’s projectors and …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 3 – Here There be Turkeys
Thursday, 17 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 3 – Here There be Turkeys

L.A. … The 1098S slices northwards on the 405 out of Irvine between columns of traffic trudging forwards like workers in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.  Even with the Ventura luggage, I’m the widest thing on the …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 2 – The 1098GT
Wednesday, 16 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part 2 – The 1098GT

“They took my Allen keys from my at security,” on the phone photographer Kevin Miklossy sounds disgusted, “you need a 6mm and a 3mm.  Does the Ducati toolkit have them?”
I laugh, “You’re joking right.”
The 1098S …

A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part I – The World’s Fastest Sport-Tourer
Monday, 14 Jan, 2008 – 2:00 | Comment
A Life in 66.6 Mile Increments Part I – The World’s Fastest Sport-Tourer

Sitting long, low and sepia-lit in the evening sun at Alice’s on Skyline Road the 1098S projects sensuality and anticipation of acceleration so pure it borders on erotic; needing only to shed vestigial street fitments …