WetLeather Motorcycle Rider Information

At least eight Americans as well as other Western nationals have been detained by the Chinese government, according to Reuters, for expressing political speech related to Tibet. We Americans take our right to "free speech" as a given, although this right is not a global one.

Saturday, I rode the Ducati south to Eastside, so that they can inventory the cosmetic dings I inflicted on it two weeks ago, when I had my baby crash on the 80th St off-ramp off I-5 South. Sigh.

I worry that it will be totaled - because Italian parts are so bloody expensive. I knew going in that it needed:

• new bars (tweaked)
• brake lever and bar end
  
• termi, right side (ground a little hole)
• right side plastic cover under the seat
• tank replace/repair (road rash)
• headlight

What I had missed was a rounded off end at the bottom of the right fork. :-/