been xmas shopping today, me and dangerous started the day at maccee-dee's for a coffee, then down to see rob at racing lines, aprilia 125 mudguard for a tenner, cagiva mito rear caliper, [with footpeg hanger, master cylinder and trick little reservoir] twenty quid and a pair of clip-ons, [not a matching pair, the nickel plating is a different colour, big deal], for another tenner, then up to neil's at cornerspeed ducati for a root through his brake caliper bin and turn up a beauty, result, be rude not to pop around the corner and see kev at le-rock, tell him about the problem with the front disc and he gives us a 320mm semi floating disc for nowt, 'measure it up and see if you can do anything with it, if not give me a ring monday, the ebc rep is in and i can have a word with him to see if i can get you sorted', my faith in human nature is restored, thank you.

front caliper is a four piston, four pad brembo off a treble nine ducati, rear is a little twin piston, twin pad brembo off a cagiva mito, that should stop it then, why do people buy harley davidsons?...........

beautiful harley davidson/aeromacchi 250cc racer from 1964, why don't harley dip into their rich racing heritage more often rather than following the tired old, [delete as necessary], 1- bald eagle flying over a desert, 2-easy rider, 3-bad-ass biker, 4- bro!, 5 etc,etc, etc, bore -off, i've got one and there not as good as you want to think they are, imagine saying to a r1 or fireblade owner, 'right mate, you've bought the bike , now you need to spend lot's of money to make it run properly and even more to make it stop properly and even more to look like a complete knob-head in your factory approved made in taiwan genuine harley clothing range, they do a complete package at your local dealer, black t-shirt, [with dealer logo on back], black jeans, [pressed in creases included], snakeskin boots, a fucking stupid helmet that looks like a pimple on a pig's arse, h.o.g patch with top and bottom rockers that you can sew on your cut-off so 'normal' people will think that you are an outlaw club member, [even though you are actually a commodities broker in real life], the sneer comes as standard as soon as you ride off on your new bike, [mate, only pensioners and little kid's are impressed] and the cherry on the top, a stick-on goatee beard.

lambretta racer at three sisters.

had some work done today.

rage against the machine.

hotwheels. got this one in california, probably the bike buell should have built.

ben jones at 'second skin' tattoos, derby, me, having my chest panel finished, i took the photo, we just fuck about all the time, laughing, playing music on ben's i-pod, some really cool stuff on there and then on comes bon-jovi or wham or girls aloud and he is trying to turn it off or make some excuse about it, that's the beauty of an i-pod on shuffle, it reveals so much about you, don't make excuses for it, if you like it then bollocks to everybody else, that's the trouble with a lot of people, they say what they think you want them to say instead of being themselves.

hanya mask.

board track racing frog.

ernst degner on the factory suzuki, he defected from eastern germany with walter kaaden's secrets and sold them to the suzuki factory, read all about it in matt oxley's brilliant 'stealing speed' book.