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CLASSICS ON THE GRASS
Here's your chance to see old bikes and Peter Egan. If you're anywhere near St. Augustine, Florida, on Saturday, May 20, be sure to stop by the Riding into History Concours d'Elegance. The event, which last year raised $30,000 for breast-cancer prevention, will fea ture 300 antique, vintage, race and custom bikes on the grass at World Golf Village, plus CW's own Editor-at-Large as Grand Marshal. Find out more at www.ridingintohistory.org.
MOTOGP NEXT-GEN
At the request of energy-drinkmaker Red Bull, 13 students from Professor Jesus Rojas Ache's indus trial-design class at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savanna, Georgia, have created two full-scale Grand Prix-style motorcycles. Red BuD-sponsored factory riders Ben and Eric Bostrom visited the class this past January. "The best part was brainstorming with the class about why you can and can't do things on bikes," said Ben. "Usually, you have no say as a rider." The futuristic models are scheduled for display at vari ous events around the world, includ ing the July 21-23 U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California.
BARGAIN IN BLACK
Let’s face facts: Nothing Ecosse Motor Works (www.ecossemoto.com) produces falls under the heading of “bargain.” Having said that, at $49,800, the Heretic C (for Carbon) retails for $15K less than the original Heretic (see “Refined Dynamite,” CW, April, 2005) and a whopping $90K less than the ultra-exotic, titaniumframed Heretic Ti. To achieve this price point, Ecosse fitted the black-only C with a 100-cubicinch, cast-aluminum V-Twin engine and a five-speed transmission; the three other models in the line get 120 cubes of machinedfrom-biliet-aluminum displacement and six-speed gearboxes. Operators are standing by to take your order...
DUCATI DIARY
Federico Minoli, president and CEO of Ducati Motor Holding, has launched Desmoblog, the official “web log” from the Borgo Panigale factory. Minoli himself will key in the latest goings-on: decisions made regarding motorcycles, events around the world, behind-thescenes racing reports and more-all in an effort to keep the lines of communication open between Ducati and the motorcycle world at large. “I believe a blog written directly by a company’s president is an innovative communication and marketing tool, but also, above all, another way to offer the international tribe of Ducatisti a real human face to dialogue with,” said Minoli. Learn more at www.ducati.com.
