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The other one is... France! Remember le Sieur de la Salle? he had the French flag flying over Texas. Not the actual one, but the one who bore the Fleur de Lys. Once France reclaims the Louisiana Territory, you will be French too...

I am willing to listen to the reason why it happened before I make an opinion. However, this is the second incident and that does not bode well for the future.

Moto America was kind enough to make the two rounds available to watch on YouTube. I have a different take on Gagné's crash. Petrucci had just beaten the lap record, and Gagné was feeling the heat from behind. He set his own lap record and then went down. This is what happens when you are under pressure from a pursuit. We could agree that Gagné would not have crashed if Petrucci had been off pace. On a side note, Gagné is the past participle of the verb "Gagner", "To win". -Jake Gagne: Jake wins. -Jake à gagné: Jake won. The proper way to write Jake' surname would be with an accent on the final e. "é". Else the pronunciation would be like a silent "e". But as I discovered myself, in the US the administration can't put accents. Anyway, I am eager to see what happens on the next race.

@PJPR01 Took out the 911 this afternoon to run an errand and another piece replaced by Einer's fell off. I am going back to Einer's tomorrow to get an explanation. This is rather disappointing, but I will wait to get the rationale before I decide what to feel about it. In any case, my time is precious and that would be my second run for a fix.

Francesco Bagnaia seems to have found his old self again? at least he kept Fabio Quartararo at bay during the length of the GP. This is the first victory of the GP22, so Ducati must have had a sigh of relief. From pole too. I personally think that if Fabio Quartararo had managed to be ahead on the first curve, he may not have gone away. We will never know. It seemed that Marc Marquez did better than expected too. Not yet fighting for first podium, but improved. That elbow save was him, 100%. Personally, seeing Aleix on the podium again was very pleasing.

Your photos need to be uploaded and you only embed the link to them in your post. I use flickr.com. You can click on the photo below to follow the link to my account on Flickr; you only need to copy the url to embed. Try it with one of the pics on my channel, create your own and upload your pics.

Bumped into a "911" enthusiast while my car was at the Doctor's, and he absolutely wanted me to enroll into their club. They have reunions every Saturdays, and a lot of outings. I lost him when I said I was a V11 enthusiast and all my free time accounted for. I think he did not understand what could be better than driving a Porsche 911. I told him have you ever ridden a V11? crickets.... there you go!

@Kiwi_Roy I have absolutely no idea on what were the requirements to get the V11 family together in Guzzi under Aprilia's Beggio. We know that Aprilia was in financial difficulty that resulted in the Piaggio Group's take over. Before Aprilia, De Tomaso was running the show. The Moto Guzzi design bureau had a budget, and the sustaining engineer (if there was one), another to solve whatever issues that came after the industrialization. This would have been typical. What we know, only the show stopper problems were remediated. I would propose they were trying to get by with minimal or skeleton budget. Even today, we do not hear anything about the V100 Mandello. We are in May now, and no pre-series bikes have been released, there is no schedule and no information about it. I only found one obscure Italian journalist who said the V100 will come out at the end of 2022, for a 2023 release. He did not say where he got the information. The fact that Guzzi/Piaggio are not saying anything is actually very edifying. But you are correct fuse wise. Before the surgery, my V11 would consume 15 Amps fuses like there was no tomorrow. Like there was a fault.

Pop Quiz! Who can tell the names of the six flags that floated on Texas since its creation? no cheating!

@docc correction 92 Octanes. The first fuel stop 40.8 for 123 miles was mixed highway/city with traffic. The second stop, 43.0 for 160 miles was Waller-Hearne-Navasota-Waller; almost exclusively 4 to 5000 rpm. I could have easily added 35 miles to get home, with fuel to spare. As I hinted before, the V11 runs almost perfectly, none of the usual injection problems around the 3 to 3.5 k; it is a lot smoother even if I get a small hesitation from time to time always below 2000 when maintaining low speed, but they are few and far between. I am definitively going to continue with Ethanol Free Gas, as much as I can.

Sixth stop: #49 Camp Hearne in Hearne Texas; 228 miles return trip. Houston, Waller (fuel top-up at Buc-ee's), Hearne, Navasota, Waller (Fuel top-up at Buc-ee's), Houston. Very educative as I had an incredible full briefing of Camp Hearne by the custodian of the Camp. If you are interested in history, Camp Hearne was a POW camp set up there mainly for Germans of the Afrika Korps who surrendered. US applied the guidelines of the Geneva convention to the letter. Because the Africa Korps operated in the desert, then the camp had to be set up in a warm region in the USA. Texas was the ideal candidate. Camp Hearne was like Club Med. The Germans (few Italians and few Japanese) had access to anything they requested. Including art, music, theater, movies what not.... The photo below shows a small part of the camp, since the land was reclaimed after the camp was closed. The trip was uneventful if excepted for a run on FM 362, from Waller to the 6th North. I have now understood why FM means "Farm to Market"; it means that on these FM roads, you can find tractors going at 20 mph when you are testing your Michelin Road 5. No comment!

Fifth stop: Bolivar Point Lighthouse.

93 if my memory serves me right. I am planning all my refills at Buc-ee's to get enough experience. The 42.5 out of 129 miles is mixed highway/city with traffic.

Third fill using Ethanol Free Gas at Buc-ee's. It is still too early to draw any conclusion. Now, it seems that the V11 has less problems around 3500 rpm. It does not run cough free though. Mainly when I maintain rpm below 2000, in traffic I get the occasional grunt. But I am convinced there is some improvement.

After watching FP1 and FP2, I would say Fabio Quartararo will be hard to beat in Jerez. I don't think any one can approach him on sector 1 and 3. Seeing Marc Marquez so far is odd.

How different is the AMA Superbike motorbikes say, Bautista's Panigale SP4 with Danilo's?

Caution: the first eBay announcement states" manca la chiave" meaning the key is missing.

I was listening to a journalist who got to test MotoGP bikes on testing days together with the GP pilots. He was someone who competes in lesser classes I think the 300, so he is not just a scribe. He said that at Jerez, MotoGP pilots were lapping 15 seconds faster than the best of the testers. That gives a little perspective.

What kind of bikes are there anyway? I thought they were just production motorcycles without the road legal appendixes, and a few tweaks. But not purpose built race bikes. Am I wrong?

@GuzziMoto just as an aside, have you seen what Danilo Petrucci does in MotoAmerica Superbike? three races, three wins... Does it serve to gauge level of competition?

Fabio was leading the race though! then he got his arm pump problem causing him to fall behind. I am probably going out on a limb here, but I would put my money on Fabio Quartararo to win Jerez. He only has to start at the front, and nobody will see him before the finish lane. My next guess would be Rims or Mir; the only unknown I have is either Aleix or Maverick. For Maverick, he said that he should be ready to show his real potential from Jerez onwards. I don't think Ducati, Honda, KTM can really do much. There is something about Marc Marquez that we probably don't know.

To me, the best sounding motorbikes were those which had one exhaust per cylinder; starting with the 1970 Honda 750 CB. Then, the Kawasaki triples; not with the expansion chambers that everybody seemed to favor.

If you care about your privacy on your mobile media, there is also a Browser App called "Brave". Allegedly, it offers protection against Google's AMP (Accelerate Mobile Pages), which are a way that Google uses to manipulate what sites you find when you look for something. By rewriting the hit list, you are not herded by Google, but have a better free will choice. At least this is what Brave is selling, and Google contradicting saying AMP is an open source framework with contributions from publishers and tech companies which objective is only to help web pages load faster on mobile devices. I let you to your own opinion. Brave is not a major player, but you can download it for free from your usual market place. They promise the best privacy on line, but this is what all the "other" browsers do too. I have only learned about it recently, I have installed it but I am not really using my phone to view webpages.

@PJPR01Have you been to the Salt-Lick BBQ in Driftwood? I bet you have. I think I am going to give it a try; not so much because it is an "All you can eat" Barbecue, rather, they have their own wine cellar and they offer some Texas made wine. I like they seem to have a lot of room unlike all the other popular BBQs in Austin that require long waits which kind of kill the pleasure of going out for a "graillou"