Hi-Zoot, you as a V-mex rider (with very questionable taste) do of course realize this is at best faint praise. I do agree it is far less weird-looking than your, uh, machine. Maybe you are beginning to see da light.

Cheers, Darby

I wonder if the OEM's that do decide to play in the DMG game will be treated like union picket line scabs.A protest doesnt work when half the participants dont participate.

odie - 24 June 2008 08:13 PM

straight from Ducati North America

http://superbikeplanet.com/2008/Jun/080624c.htm

I saw this article as well but it seemed to me that they were saying this would probably be an extension of what they are already doing with Larry Peagram. I am sure Peagram would be happy to race a basically stock 848 in DMG, he could probably make more money than he does now.

In addition I saw somewhere that the 848 is the fastest selling model in the US so it would make sense for Ducati to support some teams on them in the US.

To me it isn't a factory team unless the factory organizes a team, hires some riders and throws all they have into winning the championship.

DARBY - 25 June 2008 11:26 AM

Hi-Zoot, you as a V-mex rider (with very questionable taste) do of course realize this is at best faint praise. I do agree it is far less weird-looking than your, uh, machine. Maybe you are beginning to see da light.

Cheers, Darby

darb, i make a living off my incredible taste.

you're probably an engineer, aren't you? that's ok, my dad's an engineer. he's smart enough to let my mother and i decide what looks good after he decides if it runs well. you might consider that option henceforth. i'd be happy to make myself available for consultation.

Uh, if you make your living off your taste, you are surely dwelling in abject poverty. My sympathy. What's unemployment fetching these days?

Will pass on your offer of consultation - stay where you are, okay?

DARBY - 25 June 2008 02:34 PM

Uh, if you make your living off your taste, you are surely dwelling in abject poverty. My sympathy. What's unemployment fetching these days?

Will pass on your offer of consultation - stay where you are, okay?

The good Zoot has done work for me. He is the bid'ness.

Whatever

i just realized you couldn't be an engineer either or you wouldn't own a ducati. no taste AND no good sense. i suppose it's worked for you so far tho eh?

Never been an engineer - did my career as a technician that suffered because of them at times, though.

I'll bet you don't like Harleys either. Sounds like you need to stand before the McCarthy hearings, pinko

Everyone I've been able to talk to is assuming Ducati is just trying to test the waters and see how their riders will react. None of them ride Ducatis but most find it hard to believe they didn't tell Boulder to wait on their commitment to WSB. If there is to much outcry they can always promote WSB and MotoGP.