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...._ . . • :.-1.1'1 . . ~ . I~~. ~ "" • .... •• • .... I'I~ I~ .... Happenings In Motorcycling Jeff and Mike Alessi rece ntly had the opportunity to ride with one of their heroes, J eff Ward, in the California desert. Mike Alessi was doing suspension testing on his Honda CR250R with Race Tech Suspension, while brother Jeff put in some serious time on his Honda CRF450R. Ward, who has been rid ing in the AMA Red Bull Supermot o Cham pions hip on his T roy Lee Designs Honda, looked as smooth and fast as ever. Th e Alessi boys put in one of thei r typ ical 30 -mi nute tr ainin g m otos in th e desert heat and looked extreme ly fast . Stay tun ed; you 'll be hearing a lot m ore about the A lessi boys after they tum 16 (Mike in 2004 and J eff a year later) . Look for an upcoming feat ure on the Alessis 010 in th e next issue of 1'1 Kids. BY AL AN CATHCART - • Caveat Emptor The following Wa$ seen in the June, 2003, issue of Germany 's Reiotm ien e Nachrichten! - AC: " Lati n may be defu nct as a spoken tongue, but it's still th e official language of the Catholic Church : Father Regina ld Foster told a press co nferenc e at the Ancora Bookstore, in front of S1. Peter's Basili ca in Rom e. "There are hundreds of modem terms that have no equivalent in You j ust don 't tu rn yo ur back and wal k away from a com pany like FMF Racin g as Bill Berroth recent ly di scovered. No, you ride away in shame . Berroth recently decided to lea ve FM F Racing and co nce ntrate on his pride and joy Motonation, importers of Sidi boots. Th e FMF boys wanted to make sure that they sent Berroth off with a bike that he could actuall y handle on those long desert rid es he lov es so much. So here it is, dingle berr ies and all. Lat in , and that's why the Vatican has aske d me to compi le th is dic tionary , the 'Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis.' "Part of the dictionary deals with modem inv ent ions, such as the 'birota autom ataria levis' (motorcycle). the 'pastill um botello fart um ' (hot dog) , the 'escario rum lav ator ' (di shwasher), and the 'pellicula cinematogra phica obsce na' (po rno fil m). But it also contains more abstract modem concepts, like the 'tem pus max imae frequenti ae' (rush hou r). and 'conform ita tis osor' (hippy) . I' m hoping tha t 'latini femi naru m captatores' (Latin lo vers) will be able to tu rn my dictionary, which is pub lished in a sing le volume for adde d conv enience, into a 'li ber m axi me diven ditus' (bes t seller)! However , not all Lati n specia lists are p leased with the Lex icon. "T his is essentia lly an adm issio n of defeat," declares Harvard professor R.J . Tarrant , who co m plains about "artificial terms li ke 'novi Hitl erianl m otu s assenci a' (neo -Nazl) and ' iazensis rnus lca' (jazz). It seem s that when all else fails, Father Foste r just sticks a Latin ending on to a modem word and moves on," If Va lentino Rossi decides to switch brand s in i!OOq, what would the out- come be? A. He would win the title on wh atev er bik e he chooses. B. He would win race s but not the title. C. He wouldn't win a race. r:::::;~:::;;::;~=;:r;;;==::::::~:---""-~---D. A Honda-mounted ride ; ould win tFie title. E. He won't leave Honda in th e first place':':'...,,;;.;...- - - . 6 OCTOBER 1, 2 0 03' c ue I e ne\N' s