Dateline: Friday, November 17, Portland, OR. It’s Friday night at See See Coffee, and the place is abuzz. There’s a party shaping up, which itself is no unusual occurrence at the shop. Thor is busy shuffling motorcycles around. Again, nothing new... These bikes belong to Andy DiBrino (that's me with him above). And they’re beautiful and fast. There are three. His Yamaha R6, the Harley XG750 flat tracker (that Thor built), and the brand new Indian FTR750 Scout - his prize for

After airing a conspiracy theory that was floating around about the Superprestigio, we had a load of great feedback and discussion. JP wrote... Marc had a hotrod CRF that had several maps that he was choosing from during the heats. a few times he was on the straight reaching over to the right bar with his left hand changing settings on the bike. The commentators on Fanschoice.tv pointed it out a few times, wondering what he was doing, then saying he had multiple engine maps t

I explained how surprised I was that my cast iron tip for Baker to win the Superprestigio didn't come to fruition, well it seems there wasn't a level playing field, or so some paddock insiders believe. They say both Marquez and Elias (a former Honda MotoGP rider and Moto2 champ on a Honda-powered bike) had electronic traction control systems fitted to their HRC Honda CRF450s. They were the only two riders to beat Baker. Traction control is banned from all levels of flat track

Well, it was a shock to me. My cast iron, put-the-house-on-it prediction that Brad Baker would win the Superprestigio came up short. How short? As short as Dani Pedrosa stood in a pothole. Baker was slightly off the pace in timed practice, being out-qualified by Supermoto champ, Thomas Chareyre, but it wasn't a concern to me or my prediction, because Baker's a racer. The 2014 GNC champ comfortably made the Superfinal to race Marquez for the first time in the night. After a mi