Australian Motorcyclist

GRIZZLING

NOT ONE, BUT TWO

“Peccantem me quotidie, et non poenitentem, timor mortis conturbat me.”

We read in the Catholic Office of the Dead, in the third Nocturn of Matins, that “Sinning daily, and not repenting, the fear of death disturbs me”. Something, I suspect, that a number of unrepenting executives in the motorcycle industry contemplate nightly when they say their prayers. But is motorcycling really dying? As was the case

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