Road Races & Road Racers (EN)

(David Jefferies @ Rhencullen)

Why?

Because I've go something wrong in my head.

I know well this is a dangerous sport, and I'm very taken up into two wheels safety, so much that I opened a blog about it.

(http://accendiilcervello.blogspot.com)

But....

...when I see these people, running on closed roads, with little protections on the walls, aware of the risks they are subjected to, flying free, inches from the tarmac, I feel an endless admiration for their courage, esteem and even feel...affection

Yes... Affection.

Whoever uses his motorbike not only as a vehicle, whoever has a scooter and dreams about a motorbike, whoever has in his eyes that glimpse that takes him with his mind in a thousand miles faraway bend, whoever dreams about the Isle of Man, Macau, the Dakar, american highways, Erzberg, Mugello and whoever doesn't want to stay trapped in a full-of-comforts box of metal for hours and hours, and prefers a stark, anachronistic way of life... well.. Whoever belongs to this set of people, is my brother, and as a brother , I would embrace him.

Surely... a lot of our brothers have left us during time, and their memory stays vivid, as their teaching, but, for each one of the forever departeds,(while doing what they loved most) , thousands more exist, and you can meet them in the middle of a bend, or in the city center, and, although busy driving, maybe while changing gears, while braking, and using the indicators, find always a way to greet you, with a double headlight flash, with a foot, with the forefinger and the middle finger in a shape of a V, only the forefinger for somebody, or.. if to the limits of humas possibility (regarding the numer of phalanxes busy doing other stuff...) greet with a nod of their head.

Whoever feels good, exchanging greetings among bikers, know what I'm talking about...

... expecially if he has tried this in bad weather, in unusual time, and... icing on the cake, if, while in the middle of dozens of cars, in cold and chill, under the pouring rain, at dawn, he sees a stretched out arm with two fingers in the shape of a V, a smile under the helmet and two smiling eyes, just like his.

Eyes like forever young boys, entities that seem to possess the “golden shadow”, people that still can become enchanted by a simple huge passion for two wheels.

This blog borns from the desire of sharing this passion with other bikers or wanna-be-bikers, mainly focusing on road races, unknown to many (and maybe it's a good thing), but so involving and full of fascination to deserve a place, dedicated to them..

Regarding this I'd like to link some sites where to obtain informations and news.

A double flash to you!

Leonardo Tongiani.

(Leov60 & Catoblepa in many forums)

Italian Sites:

http://www.passioneadueruote.it
http://www.vivianienrico.it/
http://www.federmoto.it/
http://www.ttsupportersitaly.com/
http://www.daidegas.it/ (forum road races)

Foreign Sites

http://www.iomtt.com/
http://www.ttwebsite.com/
http://www.roadracingsupporters.com/
http://www.realroadracing.com/
http://www.irishbikeracing.com/
http://www.returnfromhell.com/
http://www.mf-wellerode.de/
http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/