The summer is heat is starting to fade, but the sky is blue and it’s perfect.

Pro Italia turns 20 this year and we are planning the biggest Cafe Desmo ever to celebrate.

Cafe Desmo features a little something for everyone; restored vintage bikes, tweaked custom rides, exotic 2-wheeled art, beautiful stock machines, and a bike show with winners chosen by you.

Featuring…
• Ducati demo rides
• 2006 Ducati GP6 MotoGP bike
• Suspension clinic
• End of Summer Sidewalk SALE

Categories will include Best Vintage, Best Custom, Best Monster, Best Sportbike, Best Sportstourer, and Best Non-Italian.

Entry is FREE. Lots of awards. Mark your calendars, schedule time, polish up your pride and joy and we’ll see you on September 22nd.

Check out all the details at eventful.com

Sales on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 10% off everything in the online store.

Thank you notes should be addressed to Casey c/o Pro Italia.

Stoner raised his world championship lead to a near unstoppable 60 points over the Italian, with six rounds remaining, by shrugging off the early challenge of Rizla Suzuki’s John Hopkins, then delivering the kind of peerless race pace suggested by his practice times.

>> read the full article at Crash.net

So this was how the day would end for Nicky Hayden, rag-dolling through the rain at 140 miles per hour, his season shattered like his motorcycle, a multimillion-dollar machine depreciating rapidly as it shed chunks of titanium and carbon fiber in the gravel shoulder area where Hayden would eventually skid to a stop. “That’s a huge crash!” the Eurosport TV announcer howled, a fairly obvious observation to anyone who had just watched the white, orange and black Honda dip into a corner of the wet track and chuck Hayden, the reigning Moto Grand Prix road-racing world champion, into the air just two laps from a fourth-place finish that he desperately needed.

>> read the full article

If you have not checked the homepage, do so and you’ll get hipped to the fact that we have a GRIP of apparel on sale at a 20% savings – go there now.

Some helmets from last season, some Ultimap Eprom chips, a Bimota decal set, some adjustable Vee Two cam pulleys – just some of the goodness in our eBay store.