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April / May 2011 #49 DESMOPHILES

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DESMOPHILES

The Newsletter of DOCNZ

Ducati Owners Club of

NEW ZEALAND

April / May 2011 Issue 49

COMMITTEE

REGIONAL CONTACTS Auckland Chris (Haldane M/C’s) 09-303-0624 Wayne Lyons 027-4728-343 Waikato Heath (Hamilton M/C) 07-849-1919 Manawatu Trevor Smart 027 727 1883 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

the above members and also the

Ducati Dealer Network

All Magazine contributions and Membership Enquiries to:

DOCNZ

P.O.Box 91-612 Auckland 1142 NEW ZEALAND

Email: secretary@docnz.co.nz

www.docnz.co.nz

President

Chris Marer 027-447-4299

Secretary

Nigel Taylor 027-828-9355

Treasurer

Nick Brandon 021-974-487

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Jamie Littin editor@docnz.co.nz

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Nigel Haworth webmaster@docnz.co.nz

Communications Coordinator

Greg Monahan docnz@docnz.co.nz

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Ciao a tutti. Winter’s pretty much here. The days are certainly a lot shorter, even if the cold and wet hasn’t really arrived—at least in the Wai-kato. We’ve had a few good week-ends of riding in the last month or two. The Coromandel is always good if the weather is fine, and this time of year there is a lot less traffic on the roads which always makes the ride… less tense. A group from Hamilton and Tau-ranga also had a good weekend riding to Taupo, Napier, and Gis-borne. Then home through Opotiki and Rotorua. That was the week-end after the slips on the Napier-Gisborne road, though the weather we had was 99% fine and sunny. The roads were a mess though. There had to be a hun-dred slips between Napier and Wairoa, the worst of which would’ve covered the road in sev-eral feet of mud and rubbish. The really bad ones had been cleared, though the road was covered in mud in a lot of places, and the smaller slips had simply been marked with cones, reducing the road to a single lane a lot of the time. We had a great time, and it shows that even though it’s not the height of summer, with a little bit of good luck with the weather,

you can still have a really good time on our countries great roads. The only real downside to the whole thing was how filthy the bikes got. I’ve washed mine twice and yesterday I found a few places I’d somehow missed. I’ve heard the same story from others. That Hawkes Bay mud just gets in everywhere! So I’ll finish up now, and go fill an-other bucket with soap water and see if I can’t get the last of that muck off… Jamie PS Get your NDR2012 entries in and book your accommodation ASAP. It’s going to be the best one yet!!!

EDITOR’SSAY

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6 LYNDA AND HAMISHGO TO AMERICA

After eight months of planning, Hamish and I finally flew out from New Zealand in the evening of Friday 20th May. I had my knock-out drugs for the flight with me should I need them, but apart from a couple of bumps there was no turbulence. The flight seemed to drag a bit as both Hamish and I had trouble sleeping, despite having premium economy seats. While we had much more room than cattle class, it was still hard to get our legs comfortable – we couldn’t elevate them. However, we did manage to get a couple of hours kip, and eventually we landed at Los Angeles International Airport. After all that planning we finally set foot in

the USA for the first ever time, on Fri-day afternoon before we left New Zealand. I couldn’t stop grinning. We both slept like logs at our airport hotel, and on Saturday morning ar-rived at the Hertz depot (which has more check-in desks than a lot of New Zealand’s airports!) and col-lected our Mazda 6 car. I was sur-prised at how easily we slipped into driving on the other side of the road – though turning at intersections was a bit strange, as was sitting on the other side of the car. We headed for Las Vegas along freeways that seemed about ten lanes wide – I was a bit nervous but it all went well. The

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

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freeways were really only five lanes wide each way. We stopped at Bar-stow to visit our first ever Walmart – something I’d been looking forward to. Las Vegas arrived very quickly – and as we were driving into the city on In-

terstate 15 our hotel (the Vdara in the City Centre complex) was clearly visi-ble – very exciting!! We did a bit of a scenic tour of central Las Vegas when the GPS put us a bit wrong, but eventually we found the hotel entrance and after checking in

headed to our 43rd floor room. What a fantastic view of Las Vegas...we looked over the Bella-gio’s dancing fountains and over the sprawling city surrounded by de-sert – it was kind of sur-real to be here after all our planning and wait-ing.

80 miles per hour!!

Nearly there...

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Paolo Ciabat

karting tips f

Lynda’s prize!

Carlos Checa makes

Lynda’s day

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We spent three nights in Ve-gas. We did lots of shopping (of course!) and marvelled at the sheer scale of the buildings. I had kind of imagined what it would be like, but nothing can really prepare you for the over

-the-top excess. And then there is the night time with the neon lights. What can I say? Fantastic albeit not quite real life.

While we were in Vegas we visited the Hoover Dam. I can only imagine what a tough job it must have been for the men to build it back in the 1930’s – what a feat. The new traffic bridge is amazing too. We’d seen a documen-tary on the building of it, but the size of the bridge is hard to get from a televi-sion screen. We spent a very interesting couple of hours at the Carroll Shelby museum, and had a tour through the factory where they produce the cars. We also went to have a look at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. We’ve seen racing

(Continued on page 16)

Ben Bostrom makes Lynda’s decade

ti gets some

from Hamish

10 OUR PHILOSOPHY?BACK TO BASICS

Breathtaking, impeccable attention to detail, always. Ducati motorcy-cles have a look that is unmistak-able; their design is one of the key driving forces behind their stunning success, their style ensuring they stand out at motorcycle shows, in the paddocks and - above all- on roads worldwide. Everything stems from a renewed strategic focus on product development. In keeping with the "back to basics" philoso-phy, the brand's characterising ele-ments - inspiring design, attention to detail, performance, outstanding engines, pure riding enjoyment and awesome braking (with the use of

Brembo brakes "imported" from MotoGP and F1) - have once again become the heart of new motorcy-cle development. Reduced weight, a real obsession for Ducati design-ers, also makes a key contribution to ensuring Ducatisti always get motorcycles which handle perfectly and are a joy to ride. It takes three years for a new motorcycle to get from the drawing board to the showroom, Over 1000 days of painstaking attention to detail: every single component must be lighter that the last and, gram by gram, weight loss can amount to as much as 10 kilograms. Then, as

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part of a component optimisation policy, there is a sharp focus on the aesthetics of the individual parts, even those that are not directly visi-ble! Everything begins with a series of sketches that start to give form to the initial brief defined by the tech-nical, styling and marketing depart-ments. These conceptual sketches become more and more detailed until a definitive draft is produced. The team working at the Ducati De-sign Center is a fantastic cultural

blend that brings together juniors and senior designers from all over the world; while much of their work is individual, they share a common goal: to breathe life into Italian mo-torcycles of outstanding design. At Ducati, when we speak about 'being Italian', we have two charac-teristics in mind. The first can be summed up with the words 'clean and essential': the motorcycle should only have what it needs (anything superfluous is aban-

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doned, so no frills, just clean lines). The second is compact-ness, in terms of both dimensions and the over-all impres-sion. A cul-ture of beauty, then, based on elements that are of simple form, built with at-tention to de-tail and of outstanding quality. With the approval of the final draft comes a second stage that

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sees the making of a "Pre-Clay" 1:1 scale model, allowing us to glimpse (and touch) the motorcycle in 3-D form for the first time. This process helps the designer seek out the best possible balance of volumes. The next stage, borrowed from the world of cars, is the clay model,

which undergoes continuous man-ual modifications. It's like witness-ing a team of sculptors: once their work has been completed they de-liver an object to be optically scanned. The wizards of virtual modeling (CAS) and mechanical design (CAD) then transform this into a set of three-dimensional files. As the project progresses proto-

types are built and tested to assess reliability and appeal with potential customers. At this point the motor-cycle is a living, roaring reality. And the guys from the Design Center regularly go to the experimental de-partment and look at it yearningly, remembering those 1000 days of

drawings, dreams and discussions that magically ended the best way possible: as another unmistakable Ducati. Even though the road to-wards production is still a long one...

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I have fitted the full exhaust sys-tem, air filter and ECU , the sound that it puts out is loud and impres-sive, the unmistakable Ducati sound. I have owned several Ducatis and this is the first one that I have had a full exhaust system on. After going on a few good rides and getting used to the riding posi-tion which is upright and easier on my hand injury, it is amazing to ride, handling, braking, acceleration

is incredible, nothing like I have ever ridden before. Several people have asked me what it handles like with that 240 rear tyre, I've pointed to the rear tyre and said look how far I am leaning over on it. Everywhere I have gone there has been someone who has ap-proached me and asked me what it is, the look is totally different than any other Ducati they've seen be-fore.

STU’S NEWDIAVEL

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Ducati have built this to get into the cruiser muscle bike market which is the biggest

selling market in the world and they have done this successfully I have ridden bikes for over 40

years and this bike is by far the most impressive machine I have ever owned. If you get a chance to ride a Ducati Diavel, do it! If you are planning on going on the NDR next year, book your accommodation and reg-istration now and will see you there.

By Stu Jordan

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there on TV, but wow, to see it in real life…it’s just such a huge place. We have nothing like it in New Zealand. I was going to leave Vegas without gambling, but decided to spend (lose!) $10 at the Aria’s casino. I ended up spending 20 minutes and $11.00, and came out with $60 – I was stoked! I have to say I have found everyone we’ve met so far to be very friendly and helpful to us. I am not used to be-ing a tourist in another country (when we go to Australia for the World Super-bikes it’s not really as a “normal” tour-

ist). Some people think because of our accents we’re from England, but once we say we’re from New Zealand they say “ah, a Kiwi” which is really nice. Tomorrow we are heading from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, spending a night on the road somewhere as we want to have a look at the Bryce Can-yon and Zion National Parks on the way. Then we’ll be into the World Superbike racing at Miller Motorsports Park – plus the AMA support races….and some bike shops….I can’t wait!

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LYNDA AND HAMISHGO TO AMERICA—cont.

Jason DiSalvo got to

meet Lynda too

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Below is a summary of income and expenses for the period 1 - 30 April 2011.

It’s only a month since the last Desmophiles so not much to report. We have sufficient funds to keep us going through the year especially now that the cost of printing and posting out the Magazine has dropped substantially.

Entries for NDR at the end of March 2012 are trickling in slowly. I know it’s a long way off but please make sure you book your accommodation now to ensure we get the Ho-tel all to ourselves. There is no charge if you change your mind as long as you give them a few days notice. Assuming we find a bike for Wendy soon, we plan to combine the NDR trip with a few days touring the top of the South – it should be right nice to do some of the passes and gorge roads at that time of year.

My bike is due for some TLC so will send it off to the workshop shortly for a 30,000 km service. Some people will think this is perverse but I really prefer the cooler winter days for more comfortable riding temperatures given the built-in underseat heating arrangements of the 998.

Speaking of cool running I won’t be going to the Brass Monkey this year but wish the usual bunch of nutters a suitably frigid spell down south for Queen’s Birthday weekend.

In the meantime - keep the rubber side down.

Nick

  Cheque account  Savings account 

Balances of accounts as at 31 Mar 2011  $       8,272.80  $         408.89 

Less expenses for the period 1 – 30 Apr 2011  $      (3,729.50)   $               nil 

Add income for the period 1 – 30 Apr 2011   $      1,060.00   $            0.32 

Closing Balances 30 Apr 2011   $      5,603.30   $       409 .21 

TREASURER’SREPORT

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Greetings to all Did you know back in the 80’s, before the makings of the GFC, that quality control at Ducati was of such a nature, that in producing 749cc engines for the legendary F1, there were 4 different pis-ton and barrel sizes. They are stamped “A”,”B”, “C” and “D” and they were meant to be matched up. It transpires the 750F1 engine I am in the process of examining has matched ”B front barrel and slug but a “C” slug and “D” barrel at the rear; this may explain why the clearances are on top tolerance back there and there is evidence of blow by that has resulted in 750ml of nice clean engine oil ending up behind the alterna-tor cover, I only found this out when I pulled the alternator cover off and things started dripping. Well at least the gaskets and seal faces are good as

nothing had been leaking. 25 years down the track do you think you can get replacements? Easily if you want 13:1 compression and a handy source to a 107 octane bowser in your back yard; it would appear only the racing fraternity have cornered spares the market. The global search goes on and I have found all sorts of interesting combinations on offer but nothing any one is prepared to standby measurement wise, i.e. plenty of sellers who won’t stand by what they are offering. On the magazine front I have had a few comments regarding the electronic ver-sion on the website so a big thank you to Nigel Haworth and web associates Greg, and Matt as well as Jamie for put-ting the mag together. This new format seems to be working well.

SECRETARY’SPRATTLE

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February 27 Phillip Island, Australia March 27 Donington, United Kingdom April 17 Assen, Netherlands May 8 Monza, Italy May 30 Salt Lake City, USA June 12 Misano, Italy June 19 Alcaniz, Spain July 10 Brno, Czech Republic July 31 Silverstone, United Kingdom September 4 Nurburgring, Germany September 25 Imola, Italy October 2 Magny Cours, France October 16 Portimao, Portugal

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March 20 Doha, Qatar April 3 Jerez, Spain May 1 Estoril, Portugal May 15 Le Mans, France June 5 Montmelo, Catalunya June 12 Silverstone, Great Britain June 25 Assen, Netherlands July 3 Mugello, Italy July 17 Sachsenring, Germany July 24 Monterey, USA August 14 Brno, Czech Republic August 28 Indianapolis, Indianapolis September 4 Misano, San Marino September 18 Alcaniz, Aragon October 2 Motegi, Japan October 16 Phillip Island, Australia October 23 Sepang, Malaysia November 6 Valencia, Valencia

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MY TURISMO 2011 Well to be honest it started halfway through the last Turismo in 2009, let me explain in 2009 I decided to take my very special NCR on a quick lap of the South Island. Now this was both a good & a bad decision, good ‘cos it was great punting this very cool ma-chine around on some of the best bik-ing roads in the world. But bad ‘cos I ended up mixing it a bit with some other rather quick individuals & when you ride behind other rather quick indi-viduals, they tend to through up stones on the exits of corners!!...........Result = 1 x broken h/light & a few too many stone chips on the paintwork!! Ouch!! I said to myself, “I won’t do that again” I need to add another DUCATI to the Marer shed, one that I can use in any weather, any road condition & not worry about the grime or odd stone chip. But it still has to be quick, great handling & capable of doing long trips. The search began – I was thinking of a second-hand Hypermotard for quite a while, but the question mark of living with one for a week long ride still bugged me. I was lucky enough to have one to ride around on for a week in 2009 & it was ok, but then last year I had the opportunity to try one of the new Multistrada 1200’s. Well this was a whole new kettle of fish, a real leap forward in technology….all the clever electronics, the power, the riding posi-tion, everything about this bike really impressed me. The New Zealand launch came around

for these machines & I was thinking that it might be a bit out of my price range, especially when I was adding an extra bike to the fleet. Then one sunny day in early January I was in Motomart & Todd approached me with a killer deal on a Red base model Multistrada 1200, and to be fair it was a deal I couldn’t refuse. So with less than 6 weeks till the start of Turismo 2011 I had some new wheels to take with me…YeeHa!! If you haven’t had the chance to ride one of these bikes, do yourself a fa-vour & try one. Everyone who has test ridden one is very impressed of just how capable they are. Really comfort-able after a long day in the saddle & a very rewarding ride…….In short I’m loving it!!

Back to Turismo, my lasting impres-sion were the people, what a great & diverse bunch, Farmers, Doctors, Law-yers, Truck Drivers, Company Direc-tors etc. All with the same common theme…….Passion for Ducati’s & en-joying riding them around our great southern roads. It was fantastic seeing everyone enjoying themselves, whether they were catching up with each other at the petrol stations, cafes or over a beer later in the day & all with big smiles & even bigger stories of the day’s adventures. My personal highlights would be, as acting tour leader for our group, visiting a few of the out of the way places along the way. Jacksons Hotel…..The Fault lines

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in Canterbury….The Mount John Ob-servatory….The canal ride near Te-kapo….Our quick trip up to Mt Cook….The early morning run in 0c – 3c in very thick fog for 1 ½ hrs. to catch the punt across the Clutha River at Tuapeka Mouth….the lunch stop at Kaka Point….then our cross country ride across a farmers paddocks to Slope Point (the southernmost point of the South Island)….Our visit to Hayes Hardware Store….great times. Even if I do say so myself this event was very well organised, I only paid a small part, the real thanks goes to Nigel Taylor (our esteemed Secretary), Graeme Anderson (t-shirts), Motomart

& Luke Ven den Borst (our ever pre-sent Mechanic), Ania (our always smil-ing van driver), Warren Lee (NFI Im-ports) & the biggest thanks to Stu Jor-don for mapping out our route & organ-ising the Hotels.

Other Club Matters I have requested from Ducati HQ all the 2011 welcome kits for the mem-bers who have registered on-line for them (Ducati.com website). Close off was the 17th of April & it normally takes a few weeks to get them, as soon as they arrive I will get them out to you ASAP. Thanks for your patience.

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Also you will have noticed that our club magazine, DESMOPHILES, is now viewable on-line on the club website. Thanks to Nigel Howarth, Greg Monahan & our IT man Matt Thomp-son. This is quite a leap forward for the club & has got me thinking about membership subs & memberships as a whole. The majority of the money from the subs went on producing the maga-zine i.e. printing & postage, now that these costs are significantly reduced, maybe the subs could be lowered or maybe even become a donation only. This could vastly increase the mem-bership numbers in all our regions & allow each region to start having their own rides & events?......something to

ponder & maybe sort out at our next AGM. Speaking of which it will be held at NDR 2012 @ Hanmer Springs, have you organised yourselves for this, our 10th Anniversary event, yet??

See you all out there. Ciao Chris

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I haven’t been to Phillip Island since 2005. On that occasion it was Oc-tober, and MotoGP was in the middle of the 990cc era. I haven’t seen World Superbikes live since 2002, again at Phillip Island, and two of the championship’s greats battling it out. Colin Edwards would go on to win the champion-ship that year after the two best Superbike races ever, at Imola. But on that late summer day at Phillip Island in 2002 Troy Bayliss was unbeat-able. We bumped into Troy this time round too. He’s very much in demand at Superbike rounds, al-ways seeming to be giv-ing interviews, handing out trophies, or signing his name on people and their possessions. I hap-pened to be wearing a cap from the 2002 event when I met him, and he happily signed it—though he grimaced a lit-tle when he recalled the way the championship went that year. He went

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on to win two more Superbike world championships after a stint in Mo-toGP (and he won a race there too!) A true champion and a great guy. It’s always nice to meet your heroes and discover they are thor-oughly decent human beings. We met a few other racers too—both past and present—as well as some of the media whose names are familiar, but whose faces are completely unknown. They’re all nice people. I don’t know if it’s the atmosphere of the place that brings it out in them, or if the champion-ship just attracts that kind of per-son, but I was utterly surprised at how pleasant and approachable they all were. I suspect it has a little to do with the laid back Australian attitude rubbing off on the event. Whatever it is it’s great for the su-perbike race fan who can happily get as many autographs, photos, and words of wisdom from the world’s best motorbike racers (and their other halves, eh Andrew?) Highlight of the whole weekend for me was getting a guided tour around Paul Bird’s Kawasaki Rac-ing Team pit garage, thanks to Nor-man Burgess. We got to see the other side of the walls you see be-hind the riders and their bikes. This is where the real action is in the pit garage. There had to be a dozen guys in there beavering away on

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their laptops, and two dozen ship-ping crates for all the gear they use. And absolutely everything la-beled and in its place. Amazing to see. It was also great to see a Ducati at the front. Carlos Checa has been around at the top level for a while now, and he’s earned his stripes so to speak. He hasn’t always had the best equipment, but when he has had it he’s been as fast as anyone. Now he’s on the top Ducati at a time when the top Ducati is (once again) the top dog. I hope he wins the championship this year. It couldn’t go to a more deserving person. We can forgive him for not having New Zealand on his “map of the world” hel-met, and Lynda has al-ready had a word to him

about getting that slight oversight sorted out. Hopefully when we get her photos from Miller they'll show King Carlos on the top of the podium once again, and New Zealand on his helmet. As far as holidays go, it was a particularly relax-ing time. I was on my feet the whole time trying to keep up with what was

going on and see as much of it all as I could. It’s about as tiring as a week off can be, but it’s worth it. I’ll be going back again next year, with camera in hand, to see it all again. It was a fantastic trip. Thanks to Lynda for organizing it all, and pretty much doing everything. And thanks to the rest of the group for making it even more fun. Hope to see you all there next year.

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Auckland Headquarters Restaurant and Bar, 132 Beaumont St, Westhaven

1st Wednesday of each month from 7.30pm

Hamilton Hamilton Motorcycle Centre, Te Rapa Road, Hamilton

3rd Tuesday of each month from 7.30pm

Wellington The Featherston Bar and Grill, Corner Featherston & Johnston Streets, Wellington

3rd Tuesday of each month from 6.00pm (although Lynda is usually there from about 5.15pm)

Nelson Mapua Village Inn, Nelson

3rd Tuesday of each month from 7.30pm

Christchurch Dux de Lux on Montreal Street. Start time 7.30pm—1st Tuesday of each month from

7.00pm

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