I know there are several amongst the posters on this Forum who are absorbed in this dangerous sport - perhaps not so many, alas, of the little womenfolk. For the few of you here who are also motorcyclists, you may find this of interest. It concerns the once-mighty Parilla company, a fine Italian manufacturer of great racing machinery. <
here> is the website of the great J.Wood & Company,and their Daytona Auction. About two thirds of the way down is one of the thunderous machines that started it all.
Rare indeed; but probably Biggles will have driven one of these, and maybe SidSquid - or perhaps TimWilky in his Derek Bennett days - will have helped engineer them. Pedrosa probably still hankers after one, but I suspect it would be just too much for a younger generation, and certainly too much for girlies.