I was visiting a friend in Florence and rode one of his Ducati's. He got me a tour of the factory in Borgo Panigale. Ordered one through the factory and while I was there I got to meet the guys who were going to be building my bike. Good dudes. It was nice to see White Men with a passion for machines and performance doing a job they clearly loved. It was a good day.
(Almost forgot to mention: When my bike was being unpacked at the dealership here in the states, the guys working on the line had included a personalized card with everyone's signature that had worked on that bike. The guy at the dealership had never seen that before. Very cool. It was kind of dusty in that shop, as I recall.)
I used to ride back in the day before the yuppies started doing it and turned it into a fad. It got really gay by the late 90's. But there's nothing like riding on a hog, free in the wind, the rumble...
Hipster yuppies. The worst kind! The funny thing is, when they all started riding they in the beginning of the fad they accidentally rode into real biker gang territory and got their shit took, beat on, etc
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Ordered one through the factory and while I was there I got to meet the guys who were going to be building my bike.
Good dudes. It was nice to see White Men with a passion for machines and performance doing a job they clearly loved.
It was a good day.
(Almost forgot to mention: When my bike was being unpacked at the dealership here in the states, the guys working on the line had included a personalized card with everyone's signature that had worked on that bike. The guy at the dealership had never seen that before. Very cool. It was kind of dusty in that shop, as I recall.)
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That would be epic.
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Just about as American as gifelte fish.