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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIl~Happe-----'-------ningS~in Mo-=---torcyc~ling L.A. Calendar Motorcvcle Show To Feature Ducati PHOTO COURTESY OF JIM GIANATS'S An exciting new feature of this year's Los Angles Calendar Motorcycle Show at the Queen Mary Event Park in Long Beach, California, on July 16-17, will be the MotoCreations.comsponsored Metric Midway, where Ducati motorcycles will be the featured marque. A wide range of special activities for Ducati enthusiasts and fans will be taking place in the Midway, including custom and performance bike displays and a special Moto Creations Ducati trophy contest class, together with related venders, dealers and product manufacturers. Mark Savory of MotoCreations.com - designer and manufacturer of limited-edition Ducati-powered sportbikes - whose first prototype bike was premiered to the world at the Show last year, is organizing the activities. This year, Savory is planning to introduce the final production version of his new Ducati V-twinpowered roadster, as well as to reveal an all-new prototype, dubbed the "Boob Tube Flyer" - a I92Os-era board-track racer meets art deco with a Ducati single-cylinder engine derived from the Ducati Testastretta V-twin superbike powerplant. On display both days in the Metric Midway will be many of the Ducati of North America's Monster Challenge competitors from across America who exhibited in the recent Cycle World International Motorcycle Show tour. This is the first opportunity for many of the customized Monsters to be displayed all together in one location at the same time. MotoWheels.com will also be displaying its highly modified late-model Ducati superbikes, and on Sunday there will be the MotoCreations Ducati Bike Show Contest open to all Ducati bike-owner entries. Also featured in the Show's Metric Midway all weekend long will be the beautiful DJ Samantha Lee spinning her original dance tunes to keep things jumping while spectators enjoy homemade BBQ cooking and Hooters Hot Wings with the beautiful Hooters Girls. Right next door, the world-record setting Jardine West Coast Horsepower Dyno Shootout will be going full throttle, open to all contestants, with its own trophy awards and prizes. The weekend's activities are being hosted by TV star and World Superbike Ducati Corse umbrella girl "Rockin'" Robin Cunningham, former Miss Texas and Miss Hawaiian Tropic International. The weekend also serves as the world premier of the new 2006 FastDates.com Motorcycle Pinup Calendars, published by Show producer Jim Gianatsis. Cun~ingham is featured in all the new calendars, which will be available at the Show. Complete details of all the Show's activities are available online at www.FastDates.com. Tunnel of Wind If you watch any motorcycle racing on television you know who David Despain is. Did you know that Despain was a racer himself? Here is a shot of Despain at Roebling Road in February of 1986 aboard a GSX-R750 in B Superbike, a race that he won. 92 JUNE 8, 2005 • CYCLE NEWS