The Vallee Report – The latest from AFT
With the 2022 AFT season fast approaching, the powers that be have made some changes to the rulebook with many of them changing in the hopes of possibly making the field of bikes in the SuperTwins...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Quebec Revival Confirmed
The COVID-abbreviated 2021 CSBK National Championship series provided solid entertainment among all five of the classes offering series titles last season. Focus was rightly centered on Liqui Moly/FAST...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – Winter is here
It seems like just a few weeks ago I was putting my bike away for the winter season. I remember at the time wondering if I should wait one more week in case I could get a couple of more rides in before...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Remembering ‘Ski’
Former AMA Superbike and Supersport National star David Sadowski died on January 12, reportedly from a heart attack, at his home is Austell, Georgia. He was 58 and is survived by girlfriend Janet...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – Daytona Memories
The month of March usually signals the start of better weather back here at home but it is also the host month for something much more important in the motorcycle world. Every March Daytona Beach plays...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Paasch Drafts to Daytona 200 win
Triumph-mounted Brandon Paasch of New Jersey took his second straight Daytona 200 victory in epic style on Saturday, making an aggressive race and slipstreaming strategy work to win by just .007 of a...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – Rainouts
One of the drawbacks of flat track is that unfortunately if you are involved in the sport the weather will often dictate how successful your event is or even if it is able to happen at all. Every race...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Trackside Review – Rain and Surface Quality Always Present...
Recently, I was in a meeting with various people involved in the planned post-COVID return of the CSBK National tour to Atlantic Motorsport Park in Nova Scotia on July 21 thru 24 of this year. The last...
View ArticleClose Encounters
“Do you have a gun in here?” I heard those words and they just didn’t make any sense. After all, I’m Canadian. I don’t own a gun, much less feel the need to take one with me when I travel. I was trying...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – Memories of Quebec Road Racing
In 1991 there was a bit of a transition in Canadian road racing. After a six-year run at Sanair, the series saw the Quebec round move to Autodrome St.-Eustache. Although I had attended the race at...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Petrucci’s American Adventure
The Auto Parts 4 Less MotoAmerica 2022 Superbike National campaign launched at Austin Texas April 8-10, in support of the annual MotoGP World round at the Circuit of the Americas. The big story was...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – The Motorcycle in Mexico
After a forced two-year hiatus, my wife and I recently took a well deserved vacation in Mexico. After touching down the memories came flooding back such as the warm breeze, beautiful water, great...
View ArticleColin Fraser: Bagnaia Bounces Back
The central ‘European season’ of Moto GP is now underway, and the tour was back at its spiritual home of Jerez, for the Red Bull Grand Prix of Spain, on May 1. This was the sixth 2022 event, the second...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – Rain and My Future Son-In-Law
I have said it in this column before, I am a fair-weather rider. I don’t do rain and I don’t do dirt roads either. The reason I don’t ride in the rain has nothing to do with a fear of traction or lack...
View ArticleSeason Objectives
Here we are into May and it’s beginning to look like riding will get back to normal, if we can remember normal. The last two years have been rather challenging with restrictions and business closures...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – Aunt Lauretta
My Aunt Lauretta is 82 years old. While that in itself may not seem remarkable, the fact that she looks and acts about ten years older than me at most is impressive considering that I am not even close...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – My Weekend with the VRRA
I would like to think that us racing announcers have our own little fraternity. This is not to say that we are going to be challenging the Alpha Delta Phi crew to a keg stand contest, but if push came...
View ArticleCOLIN FRASER: CSBK GETS UNDERWAY WITH YOUNG DOMINANT AT GRAND BEND
Last weekend, the 2022 CSBK National Championship returned to Grand Bend Motorplex for the first time since 2019, as the Championship works to return to a new normal. A strong turn out and mixed...
View ArticleThe Vallee Report – CSBK, Flat Track Canada and more…
I’m not sure if it is an age thing or not but time really seems to be flying by. Here we are just a week into summer but given the fact that the last month flew by in a blur, I’m a little worried that...
View ArticleIf Only They Could Talk
This time, the big guy (TBG) is off riding in BC gathering photos and material for more touring stories so I’m going to tell a few tales of travels that I, and another of his bikes, have made without...
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