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[ChrisBushell]

Have just been out to the garage to pick something up for tonight and realised that I haven't started on my race bike yet!

Engine needs to be stripped and gearbox rebuilt (that way I might get 2nd gear reliably) then try and get some miles on before we head off in May for 5 days in the mountains.

Then I sat back with a cup of tea and thought about why do I do all this work? Reason is for moments like the attached photo.

Some of you will recognise the scruffy bloke on the left as me, the guy on the right is Giuliano Maoggi the man from the famous photo at the start of the 1956 Motogiro D'Ialia with the fag hanging out of his mouth. It should be pointed out that he won the race that year when I was still in nappies!

Nice thing is that I now count him as a real friend. Perhaps that is one of the nice things about being a part of the Ducati family for all of us.

Chris