mercredi 30 janvier 2013
Grand Prix Racer - Manx Grand Prix Trailer
After TT3D: Closer to the Edge documentary on the IOM Tourist Trophy, hard core road racing fans will now be able to add another movie to their DVD collection, with the new documentary ‘Grand Prix Racer,’ which is based on the 2012 Manx Grand Prix event.
‘Grand Prix Racer’, will be holding its world premiere on the Isle of Man on Monday 4th February - and it will broadcasted on ITV4 on Tuesday 5th February at 20:00 - and then be made available on DVD on March 4th - and was produced by Isle of Man-based Greenlight TV and was shot before and during the 2012 Manx Grand Prix on the Isle of Man, getting behind the scenes of the event and also features some of the leading characters and race officials that are involved with the meeting.
The Manx Grand Prix races will take place this year on Wednesday 28 and Friday 30th August 30. Practice and qualifying commences on Saturday, August 17 and runs through to Friday, August 23 and in their 90th year the races have received ‘FIM International’ status, replacing the event’s previous ‘European Open’ status.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
There’s a large gap between blasting down fire roads and racing the Dakar. This gap is not
suitable to be crossed without knowledge or experience. Luckily, there are ways to experience
the ADV riding without all the perils. This solution is the Wilderness Collective.
A guided tour with 10 of your soon to be closest friends, hundreds of miles of wilderness, and
gourmet cooking along the way, the Wilderness collective offers a stepping stone into breaking
the tedium of daily life and getting out into the wild. Even though the trip is not exactly roughing
it, the enjoyment of getting out there on two wheels is still there.
Interested? Check out their site here: http://wildernesscollective.com/
Every adventure starts with suiting up. The gear utilized for this expedition was the ICON 1000
Elsinore Boot, and theICON Variant Helmet.
Ducati 750 SS: Bella Figura
With an engine note as moving as an opera by Verdi, and curves as beguiling as Sophia Loren’s, the legendary Ducati 750 Super Sport is an all-time favourite among Ducatisti.
‘V-twin’? Shouldn’t that be an ‘L-twin’? Yes. In Ducati lore the slanted-forward, 90-degree twin is most commonly referred to as an L-twin. With ‘desmo’ valve-gear (no springs; the valves are opened and closed by cams according to desmodromic practice), the engine produced around 72bhp at a high-for-the-capacity 8,800rpm. Around 400 750 Super Sports were built.
As a whole, it’s undeniably an attractive machine. But take some time to examine the details. The clear strip set into the fuel tank so the level can easily be seen, for example. It was expensive in its day, and nowadays examples such as this one, to be offered for sale at Artcurial’s February Rétromobile sale, top collectors’ ‘must-have’ lists.
However, like ownership of palchi (boxes) at La Scala, 750 Super Sports ownership has a price: 60,000-90,000 euros, for this example.
| Related Links For further details on this 1974 Ducati 750 SS, Lot 210 at Artcurial's 8 February Paris sale, please see its full description in the Classic Driver Marketplace You can also browse for other Ducatis in the Classic Driver Marketplace |
Text: J. Philip Rathgen(ClassicDriver)
Photos: Artcurial
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