#2010DucatiMonster

Ten years ago, there were no orange motorcycles from Austria to challenge the middleweight might of the British Empire, and so it was left to the Romans and their red ones to defend the realm against the Britons. Heck, ten years before that there weren’t any decent British middleweights either, and come to think of it ten years before that, there weren’t even any Ducati Monsters. It just goes to show you, the more things change, the more they change. That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun, except for all the stuff that’s new. Amen, brothers and sisters.

I first heard of the Quail Motorcycle Gathering five or more years ago and always had an interest in checking out the concourse of rare motorcycles staged on a golf green near Carmel, CA. The event is known to bring out some of the rarest and most interesting motorcycles ever created for one day of appreciation at the Quail Lodge & Golf Club, just a short ride inland from Monterey, CA, a place I had visited many times before during motorcycle races at Laguna Seca.