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September / October 2009 #40 DESMOPHILES

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DESMOPHILES

The Newsletter of DOCNZ

Ducati Owners Club of

NEW ZEALAND

September / October 2009 Issue 40

COMMITTEE PRESIDENT Chris Marer 027-447-4299 SECRETARY Lynda Blair 027-454-5373 TREASURER Nick Brandon 021-974-487 EDITOR / PUBLISHER Chrissie Whitfield 021-769-826 WEBMASTER / EMAIL COORDINATOR Greg Monahan 021-851-916 SOUTH ISLAND EVENT COORDINATOR Stu Jordan 021-062-5239

NORTH ISLAND EVENT COORDINATOR Bill Myers 021-890-006

REGIONAL CONTACTS Auckland Chris (Haldane M/C’s) 09-303-0624 Wayne Lyons 027-4728-343 Waikato Heath (Hamilton M/C) 07-849-1919 Garry Robinson 07-855-9370 Manawatu Trevor Smart 0274-660-459 Hawkes Bay Nigel Taylor & Claire Miller 021 273 9450 Wellington Todd (Motomart) 0800DUCATI Chris Marer 027-447-4299 Motueka Richmond Grant 03-528-0086 Nelson Greg Monahan 021-851-916 Marlborough Graham McDonald 03-578-2490 Christchurch Craig (Casbolts M/C) 03-366-4401 Phil (Desmocycle) 03-344-1916 Dunedin/Deep South Gary Winter 03-476-7515 021-206-9866

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Here I am sitting in brilliant sunshine writing this and wondering if the bad weather we have just had was all a mirage! 'Spring storms' I believe the weather guru's called it, yet with all the snow on the Rimutaka's that wind had enough of a bite to have been worthy of a depths of winter chill!! Well as usual, I was off the Manfeild for the other weekend for the penultimate round (Round 5) of the Vic Club Winter Series. Good racing it was too - if you get a chance to pop out to Man-feild on the 17th October for the final round and a great days racing, you will be guaranteed en-tertainment in one form or another! Just in the middle of setting up my camera gear in the middle of the track after lunch and I feel my phone buzzing. It's Lynda letting me know that a Streetfighter has arrived and parked out-side the pits! As I am reading the text I am gauging my chances of dashing (? yeah ok) back across midfield to have a look at it, and al-ready the bikes are warming up on the dummy grid. Blast! Not thinking it would still be there later in the af-ternoon, I trailed back to the M.O.T.H.'s pit area and started to pack up my gear, and check that everything was as it should be. Bike loaded, tools loaded, camera gear loaded and we were off... to come to screeching halt with me yelling at him 'stop the van - stop the van'!! My Ducati radar was working well and out of the corner of my eye I saw tucked away beside the old pit garages was a shiny black Streetfighter with just the right amount of carbon on it to be deemed 'tasteful' in my eyes. What a stunner! I tried really hard to keep my greasy paws off it, truly I did. I love it even more in the flesh than in the photo's but there is one small problem. The seat on was higher than my waist!!! (Sigh) Definitely back to the drawing board now. We have another bumper edition for your read-ing pleasure, including the first of (hopefully!) a

series of reader profiles! Thanks Tim Campbell for being first cab off the rank. To everyone else, if you are keen, you know the story by now—email me at editor@docnz.co.nz,. We also have a great write up and photo’s, from our illustrious President Chris Marer, recording his experiences in word and photo’s from the DUCATI Worlds President Meeting in Bologna. The first in a series of articles from Andrew Gilli-gan ‘Ramblings of an 851’ is included in this edi-tion and he tells us that he is going to cover what it really takes to clean up and bring back an old superbike, from twenty years of abuse. I really enjoyed this article Andrew and am look-ing forward to the next one. Thanks also goes to both Glen Williams for his article on the 1098R (Ballistic Baylis) and to BRM for kindly giving permission for us to reprint it here. Let me know if there is anything in particular you would like to see in print (or on our website www.docnz.co.nz), or provide any feedback (good AND bad :)) Enjoy the good weather coming up folks (yes it IS coming), and keep the rubber side down! Cheerio for now, Chrissie

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Hi everyone. Well, some weekends recently I had kidded myself into thinking spring has sprung! We’ve done a few rides since the last issue, includ-ing to Dannevirke to check out the new McDonald’s/McCafé - and I can report it’s up to standard. I can’t believe the racing season’s virtually over. While MotoGP is more or less cut and dried, both WSB and WSS are still a battle for the championship. Fingers crossed for Nitro. We had our Club ride to Turangi a week or two ago - see separate report elsewhere in this issue. Now, remember my little project that I had on the boil at the last issue? To persuade Hamish we needed a big flat screen TV? Well, I can happily report that soon after writ-ing the last column, a 42” plasma and MySky were installed into the bedroom. It was my direct “darling, wouldn’t this racing look much better on a 42” wide screen?” ap-proach that worked, along with a very helpful salesman from JB’s Hi Fi. The bike racing is SO crisp and clear, and the weather maps look like they’re in 3D. I’m even watching ads now! The only problem is that it’s so easy to press the “record” button on MySky that I’m down to 21% memory left. I have recorded all the “air crash investiga-tion” programmes going - which is a little stu-pid given that I don’t like flying and we’re off to Melbourne in February. I guess I’ll have it out of my system by then. Not to mention the “Australia’s deadliest creatures” pro-grammes…no wonder I’ve been having night-mares! This summer we’ve decided to not follow the New Zealand racing series - which we’ve done for the last four years. Much as we love every minute of being at the tracks, it’s meant that over the last few summers we didn’t do

many kms on the bikes. Instead of going to the racing, we plan to head away on the bikes every fine weekend. Upcoming rides we’ve got planned are to both Taihape and New Plymouth to check out the new and renovated (respectively) McDonalds/McCafé, and we want to do the Gentle Annie road between Napier and Taihape too. They were in the middle of sealing the last 30kms of gravel last time we were there. Labour weekend we’re planning a trip around East Cape, we haven’t been there for about three years, and it’s always an enjoyable ride. We’ll still do the Wanganui and Nelson street racing circuits, plus the Taupo Road Race Spectacular in-between Christmas and New Year, but not the National Points series. Finally, we had a relaxing and indulgent weekend away at the Martinborough Hotel recently - it was really lovely. Thank you to those of you on the Turismo who made it pos-sible. Hamish and I both really appreciate your kindness and thought. Stay upright Lynda

SECRETARY’SREPORT

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Spring has sprung and it’s great to be able to get out for weekend blats in better weather. Bring on summer!! The next big event for the Club is the National Ducati Rally (NDR) in March 2010 – more details elsewhere in the mag. This event is generally held every two years and alternates between the North and South Island. We had a year off in 2009 so that we could schedule the NDR to occur between the bi-annual Turismo’s. Our local Hawkes Bay members Clare Miller and Nigel Taylor have been working hard to pull all the details to-gether and the event should be a ripper. So no excuses - you should plan to be part of the rally in the sunny Hawkes Bay in early March 2010. The budget for the NDR currently shows us making a loss on the running of this event. The entry fee for members is less than cost, but your committee considers that this is probably the best way to distribute the accu-mulated surplus cash to the widest possible number of members. So please take advantage of the Club’s gen-erosity and register early. Remember to also mention the event to riders of other Marques – its open to anyone – you don’t have to own or ride a Ducati to be part of the rally. I did promise last time to provide information

about Rider train-ing courses. I have to report that this is proving quite a difficult task – there are plenty of outfits offering basic track days but not too many profes-sionals offering qualified instruc-tors and who might meet your insurer’s require-ments. One option is to promote a joint venture with another compatible group so we will see where that leads to. The Club will aim to subsidise these courses with the goal of en-couraging your participation. If any of you have any connections to other clubs who have success in this area please send me an email with contact details. And if you do have any great ideas for using our spare cash – please pass them on to a committee member for consideration. Keep the rubber side down.

Nick Brandon

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Hi All, As most of you are aware I was lucky enough to go to Italy in Mid September to represent our club at the “World Presidents Meeting” organised by DUCATI to get an insight in their customer likes & dislikes, also to discuss & enjoy all things DUCATI. It never ceases to amaze me the passion Italians have for DUCATI Motorcycles, let me share three examples. 1) A quick history lesson In 1967 Giorgio Nepoti, Rino Caracchi and Rizzi (who left soon after) formed NCR a small company on the outskirts of Bologna, obsessed with racing DUCATI Motorcycles. They got hold of DUCATI production motorcy-cles & made them lighter & faster. They went on to win 24hr endurance races, Italian Championships, most notable being the 1978 Isle of Man F1 race with Mike Hailwood and in later years many superbike races in the hands of Doug Polen on the 888 and Frankie Chilli on the 916-998. All of these machines fettled & developed by NCR. These guys were the pioneers of DUCATI CORSE as we know it today! Fast forward to 2009. Whilst in Bologna a small handful of us managed to arrange a visit to a private Museum/workshop in the suburb of Borgo Panigale, belonging to one

Rino Caracchi, Yep the original engineer & founder of NCR!! He has an amazing collection of very very special racing DUCATI’S. Many are one off’s and all have a huge racing pedigree. Rino is dressed in his overalls & on his bench was a bare TTF1 frame awaiting the master to weave his magic. This guy is an 84 yr living legend!! He could easily retire & be travelling the world or have moved to the seaside & gone fishing. I asked why he hadn’t. He just shrugged his shoulders & with a glint in his eye he said “DUCATI is my passion” nuff said, I have just met the godfather of speed!! 2) The people of Imola Not only do they have one of the world’s greatest race tracks literally weaving its way through the middle of one of its suburbs and not 20k’s out of town—but smack in the mid-dle of town 2k’s from the town square!! No complaints from the do-gooders about noise, just a real passion for motorsport. They also happen to be huge Troy Bayliss fans!! On the Saturday, after superpole, they organ-ised a DUCATI only motorcade from the track to the town square (normally a pedestrian only zone). Along the route just about every-one in town was waving, smiling and cheering with excitement!! In the square they had a big display of all of Troy’s championship winning

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rival any Swiss watch maker. During my tour it was it was quite obvious that, financially the bike side of the business played a very small part. Why do they bother? I asked Michele about that & he said, “Follow me”. We walked into a machine shop where he introduced me to an old craftsman working on a milling machine, making some very intricate Titanium bolts for their race bike.

This guy shook my hand & explained how he started the business in the late sixties by making special lightweight parts and nuts & bolts for a Mr. Rino Caracchi, who happened to build DUCATI race bikes on the other side of town!! Then he dropped the big one… he was Mich-ele’s grandfather!! “This is why we took over NCR”, Michele explained “DUCATI is our passion”. I felt very humbled to have met so many peo-ple who are such big parts of DUCATI history, people whose blood is coloured red, not be-cause of nature but because of their absolute & unwavering passion for DUCATI !! Amen to that!! Chris

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bikes, followed by a special presentation to the man himself—followed by a rock concert!! Passion? Passion indeed!! 3) Real Passion I made my way to the other side of Bologna to the modern day headquarters of NCR, now owned by the Poggipolini family. I am met by Michele (Michael in Italian) Poggipolini. Their core business is the design & manufacture of super special light weight components in tita-nium carbon fibre etc. for the aerospace in-dustry, Ferrari both road cars & F1, DUCATI Moto GP & Superbike & of course there own bikes, I got a four hour one on one tour of their entire operation. This was the most high tech setup I have ever seen in my life period!! They have machines & men who can, and do make anything! The complex parts that I saw being made defy belief. Solid billets of Titanium being ma-chined into the most complex shapes imagin-able and all with the precision that would

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12 Ramblings of an 851 (Part 1)

If your lucky enough to own an early 90's vintage Ducati then like me you'll more than likely want to spend a little more time pamper-ing your baby. After all, while they are not getting any cheaper at that age, you can be rest assured they are appreciating in value as the years tick on by! If overseas prices are any reflection then the future is looking bright for all owners. Ownership of these early nineties Ducatis comes with certain benefits - and when I work out what they are I'll let ya know :) My baby is a 1990 851, she's an old girl, get-ting on a bit at nearly twenty years old now and still she's my baby! Just ask the kids, if they so much as even touch her I'll kick their arse, they know it and think I've got a prob-lem (?). My wife thinks I've got a problem too, silly women what the heck is she on about?! See - years ago when I met my wife, I sold my only baby to buy a house (sad day selling a Ducati, I am sure a few of you may under-stand) so we had somewhere to live and make real babies. Well, the years have ticked on by along with that internal clock thing, you know the one that counts down the day till bike ownership again?! I reckon it's a stage all motorcyclists go through, you’re either man enough to admit it, succumb to it or just let the urge fade away! Enough rambling, back to the old girl.... motor bike that is. The decision was made to pur-

chase, a budget found (sort of) so off I went Ducati shopping, none better I reckon! Now I knew what I wanted but the problem was I had no idea how long it would take to find one nor in the condition and with a service history that I preferred - yep call me picky. Yes there is a god and it didn't take too long as it turned out. Nic Odermatt decided to sell his and since he was heading overseas, he needed some cash etc and a deal was done after I'd ticked all the boxes I had identified on my options list. So (as yet) unseen but heard (over a cell phone) it was shipped down to me by Biketranz (thanks John). It's moments like these you never forget... The first time I sat on her or the first start - ahhh, memories that stir emotions to this day. You never forget moments like those I reckon. On quick inspection things looked okay… (but, crikey Nic it's not too hard to clean a bike ya’ know! (more on this in part two). So I set out on recouping many years of lost therapy. If your anything like me it's the thera-peutic kind that give you hours of pleasure in maintenance or simple just cleaning it. The first benefit of ownership of the 851, has to be the test ride! With a grin from ear to ear and those stereo Staintunes, I proudly announced to the neighbourhood that a Ducati was in the ‘burbs, it made me as happy as a pig in you know what. So - why an 851 I hear you ask? Allow me to explain with a little history perhaps? If you know your Ducati history, certainly in the early cagiva years this was the re-birth of Ducati and the start of many great years in WSBK success. It all started in the mid eighties when Andrea Foni was given the first generation 851 de-signed in 1985 with those 16” wheels and that distinctive Tricoloure paint scheme to sort out

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By Andrew Gilligan

given it was an outdated de-sign by today's standards. If it wasn't for the 851 & 888 early successes in WSBK then things might not be so rosy today for Ducati. This wasn't a bike designed by a designer such as the Paso was, it was designed by engineers and engineers only with one thing in mind, to win races and win they did. As the want and de-sire for Ducati ownership took hold globally so too did sales and for Ducati it was the sav-iour as the money started to

flood into the Ducati group. That three digit model designation all started right here and it has stuck over the years too become a recognisable trademark in it's own right. Ahh yes, the 851 & 888 changed the industry for ever, like few others ever have before it. There is no doubting, it certainly changed Ducati's future and ownership in my opinion of a model of this ilk certainly is a privilege thing. Over the coming instalments I'll cover off - Repairs, maintenance, more history in the fix and clean up of my 1990 Ducati 851 #1685.

it's handling and over all per-formance issues. After some radical changes the new 851 was born, sport-ing 320mm disc, 17” wheels, new frame, swing arm and bodywork, reduced wheel base to 1430mm, a lower centre of gravity and finally, a stripped down to the bone, all new four valve desmo heads. It revved like no other twin before it! It made power, proper power... 160mph power! In 1988 the RC30 and GSX-R750 strug-gled to top 150mph. International bike maga-zine tests at the time all were saying “This is the twin that dusts fours”.

It had the engine as a stressed member of the frame (Japanese factories at the time were mostly sticking with alloy frames), and that steel trellis frame - again Japanese facto-ries had a lot to learn. So it all began in 1985 and with Andrea Fonis changes in 1989 a sport bike model life that spanned some six plus years all the way through to 1994. The 851 / 888 Ducatis em-barrassed and out classed the Japanese fac-tories in WSBK for years and in 1993 Foggy's second place was even more impressive,

14 Ballistic Baylis 1098R

A read of the spec sheets quickly shows that it is indeed pretty much that, and this particular Bayliss 1098R has had some extras thrown at it in-cluding a set of BST carbon fibre wheels, aftermarket triple clamps and a custom rear linkage which lightens this already light 180kg motorcycle and further improves its performance. The pedigree of the bike is clearly obvious – and it doesn’t try to hide for one moment that it is truly a “wolf in wolfs clothing”

BALISTIC BAYLIS Its number 296 of only 500 manufactured and sports a power to weight ratio better than 1:1. The only Ducati “Bayliss” 1098R in NZ gets a quick spin around the Manfield race circuit by BRM race reporter Glen Williams and makes quite an impression. The good guys from Motomart in Wel-lington and the owner himself allowed BRM to test ride what Ducati purport to be the closest thing to a genuine factory world Superbike.

DOES THIS WOLF BITE? “The tail section is worth ten grand alone ” – was the not so subtle hint combined with a cheeky smile, from Andrew Forward who is the lucky owner of this particular Ducati as he and son David (both racers themselves) watched on a little nervously as I prepared to take his $85,000 bike out on track. Rolling out of pit lane I managed to achieve my first of a number of missed gears during the test (sorry Andrew!), to say that the gear-box was “tight” would be an understatement - however it would not be fair to knock any

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brownie points off the machine for this issue as it had very little mileage on the clock and the owner has since confirmed that this trait is now much improved as he has put a few more miles running in the bike. Other than a few dodgy gearshifts the first few laps showed up two things (1) – The engine had “un – be - leeevable” stonk from anywhere in the rev-range and (2) Some-thing was up with the steering as it felt like the steering damper was locked on full or it had a flat front tyre - this in turn provided a few quirky moments on Manfields slower corners. Pop back into the pits and Robert Taylor the Ohlins guru was on hand to immediately iden-tify the problem, it turned out that the Kyle racing aftermarket triple clamps fitted only days beforehand were nipped up over tight and having quite an effect on steering move-ment. Back out again and I had a much nicer beastie in my hands with a much more confi-dent front end. Andrew Forward had in-fact just added a number of new suspension parts that week to the bike and advised me earlier in the day that they had no time at all to “ set these up” and this showed. Even so, the bike was pretty responsive and willing to follow the rider’s instructions. The drop dead gorgeous carbon fibre BST wheels were shod with Pirelli slicks and these added to the overall experience which is un-surprising as the companies Supercorsa road orientated rubber are used on the bike in standard trim. Steering into the corner still required some effort though – but once the bike was on its side it held its line well. Spring rates fitted were in theory on the high side at 13kg for the rear TTX36 Ohlins and 1.1kg springs in the front. In reality though the rear felt pretty good and drove well out of corners with no discernable “kick in the pants” over bumps or early slides on the power which usually indicates of an “over-sprung” rear end. My suspicion though is that the rear rebound setting would be worth dialling back as it was a little unsettled upon entry into

faster corners. The instrument cluster has bling, - but I am not a fan of LCD tachometers and found it hard to read at speed, - give me an old school dial gauge & needle any day. The Ducati Traction Control system was set to No6 of 8 levels (8 being the “ Troy Bayliss level…..” ), and we had a good opportunity to test this out, as there was a long line of ce-ment left on the track coming onto the front straight. Tracking deliberately through this (sorry for getting your bike dusty Andrew!) on the gas the DTC worked seamlessly by in-stantly adjusting the ignition curve and thus had very little impact on the attitude of the chassis. There was just a subtle feeling that the front to rear balance of the bike was changing beneath you, but other than that it carried on along its intended path without getting flustered. MORE GRUNT THAN A PEN FULL OF PIGS Ducati threw 2mm bigger pistons & length-ened the stroke by 3.2mm to achieve the in-crease in capacity of the 1098 to 1198cc; the extra capacity is clearly obvious in both the torque and power figures. The power is deliv-ered in a totally linear fashion and the “seat of the pants” feeling of pure thrust in any gear at any revs is captivating. Vibration was minimal and the engine is now well separated from what I like to call the slightly “agricultural feel-ing” of the 998/999 Ducati era - (of which I have owned both). Some might say that this

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is to the detriment of the “Ducati’s character” – however the sheer power delivery of this 1198 unit more than makes up for this and it has its very own but “ different” character. Wheelies are commonplace – they just occur in the most uncommon places with this en-gine! As soon as you hit the gas even in the middle of fast or slow turns the front goes light and in its current set up the bike pushed a little bit in the twisty bits due to this. The other strong point of this engine is that it does not suffer at all from that “running out breath syndrome” that afflicts so many big capacity twin cyl-inder machines at higher revs; it simply pulls you for-ward in every gear at an ever increasing velocity – very impressive. CLASSIC CHASSIS The 330mm front Brembo monobloc radial brakes were strong and progres-sive; I can’t say what the rear was like as I never touched it. The slipper clutch was extremely hard to detect working, which is exactly as you want it to be and lets you get on with the busi-ness of shoving the bike into the corners as fast as you dare. The chassis itself is adjust-able in so many ways it isn’t funny - and you could play with all the knobs and levers and eccentrics until the cows come home to find the set-up that suits you. Owner Andrew adds “we’ve got quite a few parts to add to the bike including a set of fac-tory race cams, ECU, and the ‘full-monty’ 70mm “drainpipe” exhaust system with car-bon end cans and Corse throttle bodies, + carbon fibre body work”. This will lighten the bike and add even more horsepower – bring-ing it very close in specification to Mr Bay-liss’s world championship machine. I hungrily

look forward to the already kind offer to return and report on the bike in that higher specifica-tion. Andrew is a true enthusiast and his company Global Motorsports is busy organizing a mo-torcycle tour group away to the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang on 22-26 October this year. So if you fancy a trip away with a bunch of like-minded souls then contact him on 0800

438 688 SPECIFICATIONS: Engine type: L Twin 90-degree Valve train: DOHC, desmo 8v Displacement: 1198cc Bore x stroke: 106.0 x 67.9mm Compression: 12.8:1 Fuel system: Marelli EFI Clutch: Dry, multi-plate slipper-type Transmission: 6-speed Frame: Tubular-steel trellis with single-sided aluminum swingarm Front suspension: 43mm Ohlins fork, Ohlins SBK pistons 1.1kg springs

Rear suspension: Ohlins TTX , Kyle racing link, CKT valving Front brake: Dual four-piston Brembo Mon-obloc calipers, 330mm discs Rear brake: Dual-piston Brembo caliper, 245mm disc Front tire: 120/70ZR17 Pirelli Slick, SC0 comp Rear tire: 195/55ZR17 Pirelli Slick, SC1 comp Rake/trail: 24.5/97mm Seat height: 818mm Wheelbase: 1420mm Weight Dry :180kg (feels lighter) Horsepower claimed: 180 bhp @ 9500 rpm Torque claimed: 92.2 lb.-ft. @ 7750 rpm Price: If you need to ask – you can’t afford it…..

17 LETTERS to the EDITOR

Here is your opportunity to make your maga-zine work for you. Comments, suggestions, feedback and questions all welcome.

Email me at: editor@docnz.co.nz **************************************

Dear Ed, Can you tell me who reputedly has the largest Ducati motorcycle collection in the world out-side of Ducati? Yours in envy, Ducati Owner of one. Eds Note: Well, DOoo, I only had one re-sponse to your question (thanks Chris!) —but what a doozie of a response! These are re-portedly from Carl Fogarty’s garage! Let me know if you want a copy of all the photo’s (editor@docnz.co.nz)

************************************** Dear Ed, Great to read about Richard Hatfield and his

two Laverdas. We should have more stuff about other Italian bikes; maybe one article per edition. Just to show how open minded we all are. [abridged] Chow [sic], Rob Miedema

Eds Note: I couldn’t agree with you more Rob! All I can say is that I will publish them pretty much as soon as our dear readers send them in! So get your pens to paper folks, and share your experiences with us.

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18 BURT MUNROE Rally—Invercargill 2009

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BURT MUNRO RALLY, INVERCARGILL, 2009 Hello Everybody. If you have been thinking about going to the Burt Munro Rally, you should definitely go. Nathan and I plus a couple of friends went last year, it was the best Rally I have been to. I have been to all the other Rally's in the South Island and this one was the best organised and best value for money. So this year we are going again. I have a couple of friends coming from Australia, one of them came last year and he said also it was the best Rally he had ever been to. We plan on leaving Christchurch on Thursday 26 November, going down Timaru - Dunedin way and staying Thursday night at Gore. We will spend the Friday and Saturday night at Rally site, then on Sunday go up West Coast staying Sunday night at Haast, and Monday night at a friends place at Granity. We will head home to Christchurch on Tuesday via the Upper Buller Gorge Murchison, Springs Junction, then home. If you are interested in going and would like to know more you can ring me - 021 062 5239 You can also check out the Burt Munro website www.burtmunrochallenge.com The website has everything you need to know about the Rally ,the racing ,and accommodation available in Invercargill. If you are going, let me know and will see you there. Stu Jordan.

19 Worlds Presidents Meeting By Chris Marer

7.00 pm at the reception desk of the Savoia Hotel in Bologna. 36 hours earlier I was boarding a plane in Wellington, yeah I was tired, but hey I’m in Italy! A good night sleep and I was feeling alright. So out and about to do a bit of sightseeing and acclimatising myself with Italy. Monday 21st All the presidents were signing in, meeting old friends and new. It was great to see people from all over the world, Canada, Japan, a few from USA, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil you name it and he was there. Off to the factory for lunch in the massive staff cafeteria, followed by a tour of the assembly line. This is now a very slick operation com-pared to what I saw ten years ago. I think that everyone who works there loves being there; they’re all wearing a Troy Bayliss, Nori Haga, Casey Stoner or another DUCATI hero tee-shirt. Posters and stickers at work stations. Passion eh! Each bike is fully assembled by one person then run on the dyno at the end of the produc-tion line to make sure it is up to the mark, then its off to dispatch area to await shipment. The remainder of the afternoon is spent in the Museum, recently voted one of the top five motor museums in the world, deservedly so too. A fantastic history all laid out in the vari-ous era’s with many World Championship winning bikes on display. Then back to our hotel for a six course feast, Yeah Italians love food as well as bikes! Tuesday 22nd Up, breakfast done and on the bikes by 8.30am for a 1 hour ride out west to the home of Lamborghini. We are greeted by the CEO, Marketing manager and a couple of others. We are split in to two groups and are given a tour through the production line, the Murcie-lago on one line and the Gallardo on the other. Being owned by Audi means the whole thing runs like clockwork, not a robot in sight

though all cars are hand built to order. Fan-tastic to hear the V-12 being tested on the dyno at the end…what a noise!! They also have a museum showing off the various important cars they have produced over the years, including the police model still being made today!! We were soon off to a lovely El Fresco res-taurant on the outskirts of Maranello for lunch, just a modest four courses this time! The remainder of the afternoon was spent at Ferrari, unfortunately they don’t do tours of the production line any more, but they do have a fantastic museum with many incredi-ble cars, both road and race from throughout their illustrious history . Oh! There was one other thing that came as a big surprise. I was one of five in our group of Presidents that had their name pulled out of a hat (DUCATI has some great friends) and were escorted to one end of the museum, we are met by one of Ferraris test drivers holding the keys to a F430, he handed me the keys and said “let’s go for a drive”, I nearly pooed my-self! We hopped in and he gave me a few tips and directions to some quieter roads, along the way I asked him how fast are we allowed to go? He just smiled and said “We are Ferrari”, I got his drift. We came around the second round about then he just said Go! Go! Go! So me, being me, I did! Foot to the floor and bang, bang ,bang on the steering wheel paddle, what a rush! What a noise! 200 came and went, and then the 50k corner appeared! Hard on the ceramic brakes and back down the gearbox as fast as I could…still done 100 and I quickly thought to myself “this is a Fer-rari” and around the corner we went. I had a quick glance at the Ferrari man and he just smiled and said “why did you slow down so (ED: Continued on page 28)

20 SUPERBIKE Calendar and Championship Standings 2009

March 1 Phillip Island Haga 1st Fabrizio 6th Laconi 7th

March 14 Losail Haga 1st Laconi 7th Fabrizio 11th

April 5 Valencia Haga 1st Fabrizio 4th Laconi 6th

April 26 Assen Haga 1st Fabrizio 4th Laconi 8th

May 10 Monza Haga 1st Fabrizio 3rd Laconi 7th

May 17 Kayalami Haga 1st Fabrizio 2nd Laconi 8th

May31 Salt Lake City Haga 1st Fabrizio 3rd Laconi 11th

June 21 Misano Haga 1st Fabrizio 3rd Smrz 9th

June 28 Donnington Park Haga 1st Fabrizio 3rd Smrz 8th

July 26 Brno Haga 1st Fabrizio 3rd Bryne 9th

September 6 Nurburgring Haga 2nd Fabrizio 3rd Bryne 9th

September 27 Imola Haga 1st Fabrizio 3rd Bryne 9th

October 4 MagnyCours Haga 1st Fabrizio 3rd Bryne 9th

October 25 Portimao

Australia

Qatar

Spain

Netherlands

Italy

South Africa

USA

Republic of San Mar-ino

Europe

Czech Republic

Germany

Italy

France

Portugal

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22 October Ride To Turangi

We had a discussion a couple of months ago at our Wellington drinks night, and decided it was time to have a North Island ride. I undertook to organise the ride, and settled on Turangi as the overnight venue, for two reasons. Firstly, it is more or less equidistant for all North Island rid-ers, and secondly it has a fantastic Italian restau-rant. My understanding is that back in the 70s an Italian company won the tender to build one of the Rangipo power projects. Because all the workmen were Italian, some Italian business owners moved over here and set up shop to help the workers feel at home. One of these, a chef, married a local Kiwi girl, and didn’t return to Italy. Hence Valentinos restaurant has become a bit of an icon in Turangi. Hamish and I have dined here a few times over the years, and it’s been consistently good food.

We ended up with 12 signing up to come along, though at the last minute three weren’t able to make it leaving our final number at 9. On the Friday lunchtime I checked out the weather forecast and for Sunday the weather from Turangi south was set to turn to you-know-what with gale force winds and the freezing level lowering to around 1,000 metres. The Desert Road summit is 1074 metres above sea level, so it didn’t take me long to decide we would leave the bikes at home and take the car. I knew I’d get a bit of a ribbing, but I’m too long in the tooth to battle my way through wet, cold weather for 300kms if I don’t have to.

We left Wellington soon after 8am on the Saturday, and the weather wasn’t too bad. We went via Wanganui/Paraparas/National Park, the same route we would have taken on our bikes. We stopped at the Church Café at Sanson for a nice morning tea, but it was a bit chilly to sit outside. We had an uneventful drive up the Paraparas, with the only wandering livestock being a few goats and a couple of peacocks. There’s a bit of roadwork's going on between Wanganui and Raetihi - they’re softening sev-eral corners in different places, and there’s one place where they’ve built a completely new piece of road, cutting out one or two of the 35km/hr corners. We’d seen the work in pro-gress several times but this was the first time we’d been on the new road and over the two

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new bridges. We had a nice view of a snow covered Mt Ruapehu from around Raetihi. The snow cov-ered two-thirds of the mountain, and it was very clear - we could make out the ski lifts and build-ings on Turoa. We got up to Taumarunui and met up with Jeff, one of the Auckland riders, and Ron from New Plymouth. We had a nice leisurely lunch at Ruddies Café, then headed towards Turangi at 2.30pm, via the lovely SH41. We stopped at the lookout at the Waituhi Saddle summit.

Even though it was cloudy and a bit hazy, it was still a spectacular view. Then onwards to the Parklands Motor Lodge to find John from Auckland had already arrived. Soon afterwards Tony and Ania arrived from Tauranga, followed closely by Jason and Ro-chelle from Arapuni. Tony and Ania had also arrived in four wheel transport, so that made me feel slightly better. The ride from Welling-ton for us would have been fine on the bikes, and I was wondering if I’d overreacted about the weather forecast. The bikes were securely locked away in the

garage for the night, and we whiled away the late afternoon chatting - catching up with those we knew, and getting to know those we’d not met before. We wandered across the road for dinner - or should I say underneath it. There’s an under-pass from the motel running underneath the busy SH1. As we passed Burger King Hamish suggested we could always stop for dessert on the way back and have a piece of the lovely Hershey’s chocolate pie they sell. His sugges-tion was met by a loud groan from the group, but I made a mental note as I’m particularly partial to a good chocolate pie. We arrived at the restaurant and were shown to our table. As our orders were being taken I mentioned to our waitress (who is the wife of the chef) that we were the Ducati Club group and

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25 MOTOGP Calendar and Championship Results 2009

12Apr Losail Circuit Qatar Grand Prix Of Qatar Casey Stoner 1st; Nicky Hayden 12th

26Apr Motegi Japan Grand Prix of Japan Casey Stoner 4th

03May Jerez Spain Gran Premio De Es-pana

Casey Stoner 3rd; Nicky Hayden 15th

17 May Le Mans France Grand Prix De France Casey Stoner 5th; Nicky Hayden 12th

31May Mugello Italy Grand Primo D’Italia Casey Stoner 1st; Nicky Hayden 12th

14Jun Circuit de Catalunya Catalunya Gran Premi De Cata-lunya

Casey Stoner 3rd Nicky Hayden 10th

27Jun Assen Netherlands TT Assen Casey Stoner 3rd Nicky Hayden 8th

05Jul Laguna Seca United States U.S. Grand Prix Casey Stoner 4th Nicky Hayden 5th

19Jul Sachsenring Germany Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland

Casey Stoner 4th Nicky Hayden 8th

26Jul Donnington Park Great Britian British Grand Prix Casey Stoner 14th Nicky Hayden 15th

16Aug Automotodrom Brno Czech Repub-lic

Grand Prix Ceske Re-publiky

Casey Stoner 3rd Nicky Hayden 14th

30Aug Indianapolis Indianapolis Indianapolis Grand Prix

Casey Stoner 3rd Nicky Hayden 12th

06Sept Misano San Marino GP Di San Marino E Della Riveria Di Rimini

Casey Stoner 4th Nicky Hayden 14th

04Oct Estoril Portugal Grande Premio De Portugal

Casey Stoner 2nd Nicky Hayden 8th

18Oct Phillip Island Australia Australian Grand Prix Casey Stoner 3rd Nicky Hayden 14th

25Oct Sepang Malaysia Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix

Casey Stoner 3rd Nicky Hayden 13th

08Nov Comunitat Valencia Valencia Gran Premio De La Comunitat Valencia

26 Book Review

Book Review Zen and Now –On the Trail of Robert Per-sig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Mark Richardson Back in the seventies, many keen motorcy-clists and/or those in search of the answers to some of life’s deeper questions, read (or at least tried to read) the classic work of litera-ture Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainte-nance by Robert Persig. I must confess that I struggled with the book and I think or it took at least three attempts to get to the end – but persevere I did. It seems I was not alone as the author of Zen and Now reveals – many people had a similar difficulty and it was common to have two or three at-tempts. I was sure at the time that much of what Persig was on about went right over my head and one day I would revisit Zen and the Art and have another crack. For those who have not read the original work, the book follows the travels of Robert Persig and his son Chris on a Honda 305 Superhawk on their trip from Minneapolis across the Northwest USA to California. They are accompanied by a couple on a BMW and along the way we gradually find out about the author’s history of mental illness, certain aspects of his obsessive personality and his relationship with his son. The book was a best-seller and reprinted many times.

Not long after the book was released, many readers felt compelled to follow the tour route, hoping to unlock some of the less clear as-pects of the book. Zen and Now is the story of one of the so-called “Persig pilgrims”, Ca-nadian journalist Mark Richardson, as he follows the original route with the aim of arriv-ing in San Francisco on his 42nd birthday. It might be a bit of heresy to say this in Des-mophiles, but Mr Richardson rides an elderly Suzuki DR650 rather than a product of Bolo-gna. However don’t let the choice of bike put you off – 5,500 k’s is a very long way on a heavily laden single cylinder dirt bike so you have to respect that. For me at least this new book certainly led to a better understanding of the original work, which was more than a “how to” manual for old Honda twins. The author of Zen and Now is a typical mid-life crisis sufferer who decides to follow Persig’s route out to California and try to get to the bottom of a few questions about the original journey and about his own life along the way. So this is part travel writing and part philoso-phical analysis. Some reviewers think Zen and Now can be read without knowing some-thing about Persig’s book, however I think Zen and Now may be more interesting if you have read Zen and the Art…. already. So if the original work occupies space on your bookshelf, and if you would like some illumi-nation of the unanswered questions, or more discussion of some of Persig’s ideas such as “quality” then this may be the summer read for you. From a Ducatisti point of view we do seem to be a bit obsessed with the “quality” in our chosen brand of motorcycle. Maybe Persig’s book influenced Taglioni or Tamburni when they were designing such classics as the 750SS or the 916.

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Persig also bemoaned the consumer’s ap-proach to mechanical devices. He was very much hands-on and did his own servicing and mechanical work. Whereas the BMW rider he travelled with had no interest in how his ma-chine worked and would simply call for help if his bike ever stopped or wouldn’t start (typical!!). Another topic which he delved into is the question of what constitutes “making good time” for a motorcycle tourer. We don’t always need to travel at high speed to make “good time” – sometimes you need to travel slowly enough on back roads to enjoy the sights sounds and smells along the way. And the stopping for petrol, food and coffee is the chance to interact with the places and people that our travelling intersects with. His view was that we need to do so quite deliber-ately.

Richardson attempts to explain some of these concepts and I reckon he does a good job. Don’t expect stark statements of fact about any of life’s mysteries – there still a bit of hippy fuzziness to some of the arguments. I suppose it’s a bit Zen-like – you may find other truths which are just as relevant as the ones suggested by either author – and they would be just as valid. If you fancy reading something a bit different from your usual diet of workshop manuals and magazine articles this might be for you.

Reviewed by Nick “Grasshopper” Brandon.

Eds Note: Good review Nick—I am off to the library for a couple of books me-thinks!!

28 Worlds Presidents Meeting (Continued)

(Continued from page 18) much!” My 30 minutes of fun was soon over, but what a treat, driving a Ferrari at the home of Ferrari WOW!! Well still high on adrenalin we arrived at our evening’s entertainment. Racing Mini-Motard bikes under lights!! Well this is gunna be fun! Having never ridden a 70cc 2-stroke Mini-Motard! Never raced under lights before! What could possibly go wrong? With 50 or so Presidents and about 10 DUCATI ring ins we are split into groups for practice, the racing is split into heats, the first three to quarter finals, then the first three in that to the semi’s, then down to the grand final. What a night! A lot of very fierce racing a fair bit of skin lost (none of mine) one guy crashed five times in a sin-gle lap! The Italians were the funniest, cutting cor-ners, taking short cuts, knocking each other off then arguing and blaming each other for cheating! But we soon lined up for the final, with yours truly flying the New Zealand flag high and in pole position! The flag dropped and the chaos began, got a shocker of a start with the flying Mexican beside me jumping the start with a lurid mono and taking us both off the track! 5th at the end of the first lap. Luca the Italian then start his crashing spree (5 times in the next lap, red mist) as the race wore on lots of passing and re-passing, the crowd was going wild, I tried a last lap-last corner manoeuvre for the lead only to be re-passed to finish a close second! But I was happy, the guy who beat me was one of the DUCATI ring ins, An ex 125 GP winner as it turned out. Then BBQ and beer, this night was one of the highlights of the weeks, lots of laughs. Wednesday 23rd

We were back on the bikes by 8am for the 1 ½ hr ride to Venice where we were met by the

Venice DUCATI Club, Yep a DUCATI Club in Venice! Obviously they have a boat as well, which they took on a bit of a tour out to one of the less visited Island of Burano, famous for its lace and brightly coloured houses. Actually it is how I would have imaged Venice before the tourists turned up. One of the guy’s in the Venice Club has an uncle who happens to own a restaurant on Burano so it’s there we spend our 2 hour lunch break! Lovely sea-food. Back on the boat and head to the Island of Murano to watch some glass blowing and back to the mainland by nightfall, an 1 ½ hr back to Bologna, get changed, in the bus now 10pm and out for dinner with the DUCATI XEROX Junior Team, ordering dessert at 12.30am home by 2.00am. Yep the days were long! Thursday 24th Later start today 9.30am but some really good riding lay ahead, the mighty Futa and Raticosa Passes, where the soul of DUCATI engines are born, well that’s what the PR bloke told us anyway! But the roads were great, a cross between the Takaka Hill and Lewis Pass, but with asphalt surfaces, just as well I was riding a Hypermotard then!! We stopped for lunch at one of Marco Rimondi’s favourite restaurants high on a ridge over-looking some pretty amazing scenery, and yep another six course special. Marco is the organiser of the WPM from DUCATI HQ and loves great food (did I tell you I put on 5kg on this trip?) We finished the afternoon off with a ride down an amazing Buller Gorge type valley to arrive at Imola. We are guests of the DUCATI XEROX Superbike Team. We are shown around their pit garage and then into the hos-pitality area to meet Davide Tardozzi, Nori Haga and Michel Fabrizio, time for auto-graphs, photo and some nibbles and drinks. A good day with a bit more riding done.

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Friday 25th Free morning, this was the morning some of us spent over at Rino Caracchi’s garage Mr. NCR (see Presidents Prattle). Afternoon was the official WPM with the top brass from DUCATI we were joined at this point by a host of other presidents who were doing the weekend package. The meeting itself was conducted in Italian, we had head-phones with translators doing voice over’s. We were officially welcome by Gabriele Del Torchio CEO of DUCATI; with special men-tion of the furthermost club on the planet had made the commitment to attend the meeting once again, much applause. In all reality DUCATI are very pleased to have a club in New Zealand, so well done you all! The main points discussed DUCATI has increased its market share worldwide despite the global downturn, thanks to the runaway success of the 1098/1198, Hypermotard and the new Mon-ster range. They are in a strong position financially with plans to build a new factory. They are forging ahead with new model development. Speak-ing of which we got a sneak preview of the new Multistrada replacement, very radical a cross between a 1098, Multistrada and BMW GS, due to be to be shown for the first time publically 1st November. Unfortunately they were very coy about any other models other than they were committed to building sporty top end machines. They also made mention of the new web site

they are rolling out from 1 November with more features being implemented in the fol-lowing months. Hopefully that will make our online registration easier next year. Reliability & servicing issues were discussed with DUCATI now second most reliable Euro-pean brand & service intervals being ex-tended, something they are rightly proud of. There was much discussion about WDW 2010 in September; some of the Italians wanted the date moved to June, Some very heated debate followed. A lot of time was devoted to club insignia and its non compliance with new corporate policy (ours doesn’t comply) Any new clubs have to follow strict guidelines, however existing club designs will be allowed to remain, but we were encouraged to redesign sometime in the future. The meeting concluded eventually, with a large gala dinner & party following into the small hours. Saturday 28th We had some free time today so a bunch of us headed to some of the many fantastic roads south of Bologna. We eventually ended up at Imola mid afternoon to catch all the ac-tion of Superpole, which is quite a spectacle in itself, a lot of tension & excitement with the field getting whittled down in a series of ses-sion until you get the final six basically in a showdown. But at the end of all that Michel Fabrizio pulls

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off a blinder with only sec-onds on the clock & grabs pole in front of the home crowd, with the finish line right in front of the DUCATI grandstand the place just goes nuts. Fantastic atmosphere!! Less than an hour later we are part of the DUCATI motorcade into the town square (see Presidents Prattle) Sunday 29th RACE DAY!! Leave the hotel by 9.00am for the half hour ride back to Imola for a day of action. I won’t bore you with a lap by lap account of the action; But DUCATI had a great day, a double in the Superbikes & a win in Superstock 1000, it was a great day to be part of, so much atmosphere. Well there you have it, I know it is difficult to describe in words the sights, sounds and smells that make up the experience that I had the privilege to enjoy, but man what a fantastic trip!!

Many new friends from around the world who also live & breath the DUCATI PASSION.

Chris

Worlds Presidents Meeting (Continued)

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32 October Ride To Turangi (continued)

(Continued from page 23) she said that they are good friends with the chef for the Ducati World Superbike team, and pro-

ceeded to show us a photo of them with him in his team livery!! We had a great dinner. The food was - as al-ways - superb. There was much hilarity and dis-cussion on the current state of both the World Superbike and MotoGP championship during the evening. Most of us managed three courses, and by the time we staggered back past Burger King, even I was too full to manage a chocolate pie. We had a quick drink and catchup in the motel bar before heading to bed. Well, I had a quick drink, not sure how long the others stayed there.

When we woke Sunday morning it was raining, and rather cold. The riders got their bikes out of the garage and headed away. We drove south in reasonably heavy rain, and the weather got colder and colder…before long it was zero degrees, and the rain had turned into snow. For quite some time on the Desert Road it was snowing steadily, and there was a rea-sonable coating of snow all around. I was very very glad I was in the car. Several Central North Island roads were closed with snow by early afternoon, but luckily we’d left Turangi early so got through. We checked out the new McDonald’s/McCafé at Taihape for breakfast, by which time the snow had turned back into steady rain. We had an uneventful trip back home, though there was rain

virtually all the way, and it was only 7o at home! Thanks to everyone who made the effort to come along on the ride, particularly Jason, Ro-

chelle and Ron, who are very new Club members - it was lovely to meet you.

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34 For Sale - Ducati Caps and T Shirts

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36 DOCNZ Member Profile —Tim Campbell

Question Tim’s Response

Your favourite Ducati model? 999R (it was the bike to have when I became a Ducati-ist and would be alright mooching along behind the 1098s and 1198s or in fact any other bike that was on the same ride!

Have you owned one? No (need to win Lotto first)

Your favourite virtue? Make the most of our kids (it’s fun being a kid again). Taking the time to listen to other people

Your favourite qualities in people

Anyone that puts a smile on my face.

Your main fault Wife says, explaining everything to death.

Your favourite occupation Having enough money so I don’t need one.( I wish)

Your idea of happiness Sitting on any start line, Being fit and healthy ,blobbing at the beach with beer and friends.

Your idea of misery Never getting to the end of wife's things to do list.(Wife say it would be good to make a start!!!!)

Your favourite colour and flower

Blue, Daffodils

Your favourite music Anything, lean toward metal after a few rums.

Your favourite bird Not so fussy now I'm getting older. (Ouch—Wife just hit me)

Your favourite heroes in fic-tion

Hancock was the last one.

Your favourite heroines in fiction

Wonder woman, but haven't found her yet (just got hit again from my wife)

Your favourite sport (not motorcycling!):

Diving, hunting, 4x4ing, surfing, jet boating, watching rugby and rallying

Your favourite hobby:

Sitting on the back break surfing with my kids pretending to be somebody I'm not., or working on my ford escorts

Your favourite heroes in real life:

Possum Bourne, Looked like he was always having fun.

Your favourite heroes in real life:

Princess Caroline. (Sorry Lynda you just missed out.)

Welcome to the DOCNZ magazine - newest feature!! Here and there we will be providing you with a humorous insight into various members by way of a ‘pencil portrait’. Thanks Tim for being our first:) Keep an eye out for a copy of this questionnaire in your email inbox. Alternatively don’t be shy, copy down the questions and flick the answers through to me at editor@docnz.co.nz and help us

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. Ed Note: He he he—this is GREAT stuff Tim—thanks again for being the first!

Your favourite moment of the day:

Having a beer with friends, or the time just before you hunt the dogs at first light when your right out the back of farm. ( Probably have to be a farmer to understand that one)

Your favourite place in the world:

I have been to some place's in the world, and there's a lot of place's I still want to go to. But I'm glad I live in NZ.

Your favourite food and drink:

Beer, wine and anything that has alcohol if I'm desperate!!!

Your favourite names:

Dumarse

What you hate the most:

Lazy people that complain and don't get off there DAMN arses.

For what fault have you most toleration:

People that can't understand me.

What is your favourite holi-day destination

Sandspit just off Hayman Island

Your favourite motto Might as well of, then wished you had of

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NDR2010 - this will be THE Ducati event of 2010

Plans are well underway for NDR2010. NF Imports have come to the party once again and have produced a striking poster to promote the event. These will be appearing in your local Ducati dealers from 1st October 2009, registration forms will also be available from your dealer. For those of you who are more e-minded then the registration form can be downloaded from our website at www.docnz.co.nz. We would also appreciate help from members with putting posters out there in all corners of the country. Contact either Lynda or us (claire4dukes@yahoo.co.nz) if you have a friendly dealer (or other shop/establishment) in your local town who is happy to help promote our event. The more we put it out there the more successful the event will be. We have contacted all the dealers and they have shown a willingness to pick up sponsorship for the concourse by covering the cost of the trophies and donating prizes for each of the categories we have nominated. All the main dealers have offered to pick up a couple of categories each and AB’s in Nelson have picked up one. Motomart have also agreed to come in as principle dealer and help with demo bikes and a merchandise stall. Chris Marer is currently in Italy at the Ducati Clubs Presidents meeting where he has arranged a private audience with Marco to see if Ducati can come on board directly with some support. We understand they offer quite a lot of stuff to the European clubs in the way of banners, flags, etc. The NDR2010 committee / club has agreed to purchase an All Blacks Jersey as a gift to Marco, the Ducati liaison officer for the club presidents, knowing he is a fanatical rugby fan; but this in no way represents a bribe. So what’s on; we start the event on Friday evening with registration followed by a get together in the River Bar for a chat and a catch up. Saturday morning sees those eager to see some of the best roads in Hawke’s Bay head off for a 200km ride. In the afternoon there will be a Riverside Concourse where you can show off your pride and joy. Andrew Forward has kindly agreed to bring along his 1198 Bayliss featured in Septembers Bike Rider Magazine. We also hope to have at least one of the new Streetfighters that have just been landed. At approximately 4.30pm we intend to hold the DOCNZ AGM, so if you have any issues with the way the club is run then get your remits in before the meeting. There will be the usual (re)election of officers and we will be looking for someone to pick up the opportunity to organise the following NDR for 2012 in the South Island, St Arnaud always appeals but if there are alternative suggestions (Kaikoura, Hamner Springs etc) then put up a proposal. The evening meal and prize giving will be held at the Waterline Restaurant where we will have the services of long time Ducati stalwart Dallas Rankine as our guest speaker. No doubt there will be many tales told and handles lifted. Can’t wait so cheers for now. Nigel Taylor/Claire Miller NDR2010 Coordinators (claire4dukes@yahoo.co.nz)

be NDR2010—Clive New Zealand

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Front cover and page 14,15 & 16—Courtesy of Glen Williams (article and photo’s reprinted with kind permission from BRM

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