I was born in Riverside at St. Vincent’s hospital. Like my siblings before me, I attended Fishweir Elementary. We used to catch turtles in Boone Creek. The fecal coliform bacteria concentration was/is delicious. Thanks, Jacksonville. I remember family bike rides to downtown and back. I was so proud of my Schwinn Predator. The Park Street overpass at the railroad tracks was brand new. It seemed impossibly steep. If we were lucky, we got to stop at the Five Points Krystal’s on the way home, back before Stevie Ray Stiletto drove a car through it.

I got my first road bike in fourth grade, around the time I got my first Dead Milkmen tape. My dad and I found a smallish Cannondale at the Murray Hill Goodwill. The derailleur was strung through backwards and both tires were flat. It was white and pink. It’s not a racing bike if it doesn’t race, so I joined up with the NFBC, waaaaaay back when it had a youth racing program. Stan the Bicycle Man put an end to that. Thanks, asshole. We did laps at Kent Campus back before the Roosevelt Blvd entrance ruined the unbroken one mile oval perimeter road. I did my first 2 minute mile there. Racing was great fun even if I never won. The team usually did, so I borrowed glory from my weirdo teenage bicycle racing friends. Being a tween bike racer and a punk and a leftist revolutionary, you can imagine how well I fit in here in Bible Town, USA. Kids were always trying to drag me to their hateful fear mongering churches. I got called “fag” by an honest to goodness man of the cloth. Others insisted I was in league with Satan. Great message for a 12-year-old, huh?

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5" tires with 17" sized tires which have already been successful in the local Superbike championships in New Zealand, Holland, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Canada, Malaysia and many other local championships. This radical option will allow Pirelli to remain even closer to its philosophy, its unique approach towards competition with its continuous transferring of solutions developed in the racing environment into the hands of motorcyclists and into road... 5" Diablo Superbike tires are currently used not only in the Superbike World Championship , but also in World Endurance, BSB and CIV which have been the reference to date. Pirelli announces that starting from 2013, it will begin supplying all the tires for the World Superbike Championship, which currently are produced in 16. Until 2004 in fact, the unique supplier agreement did not exist in the Superbike World Championship so Pirelli adapted itself to the sizes offered by other suppliers.

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