{"id":2702,"date":"2009-05-21T08:56:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T08:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T09:02:04","slug":"ducati-joey-dunlop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/ducati-joey-dunlop\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducati and Robert Dunlop"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2711\" title=\"ducati-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati-4.jpg\" alt=\"ducati-4\" width=\"575\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati-4.jpg 575w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati-4-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati-4-278x66.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati-4-526x126.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati-4-572x137.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to hand to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ducati.com\">Ducati<\/a>. With a race bred heritage second to none and a cool design eye and ethos, they keep on coming out with classics.<\/p>\n<p>This silver metalflaked neo caff-styled special was emanating its stylish presence on the corner of Valencia street down in the funky mission district of San Francisco this morning, and the cool bike twitch caught me again.<\/p>\n<p>As far as we know this beautiful stylist (complete with the amazing sounding, exposed dry clutch) is only available to our American friends.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwavmjQGivY?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=1&#038;enablejsapi=\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With this sort of classic coolness in mind, I am reminded that last weekend the good people of Ulster hosted a classic road race that rivals the Isle of Man TT in its knee dragging intensity. Unfortunately, though, tragedy struck when the event&#8217;s most successful ever competitor, the racing legend Robert Dunlop was killed in a crash in practice.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest 200 is staged every year round a couple of hundred miles of Irish tarmac and draws about every biker in the island into its maw, as well as a healthy coterie of riders from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The event launched at Portrush, which is a buzzy little seaside town on the North coast just up the road from the giant&#8217;s causeway.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2703\" title=\"ducati_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati_1.jpg\" alt=\"ducati_1\" width=\"575\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati_1.jpg 575w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati_1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati_1-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati_1-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati_1-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ducati_1-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a timely reminder that the inherent danger encoded in racing machines is at least part of their appeal, especially as Robert&#8217;s brother Joey was killed back in 2000 during a race in Estonia (see tribute below) Who after all, wants to live forever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More classics found on the Streets of San Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,110],"tags":[2792,1104,123],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-blog","tag-ducati","tag-italian-bikes","tag-america","manufacturers-ducati"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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