DAINESE MUSEUM

I hate museum tours. Invariably stuffy, more often than not pompous and, perhaps most egregiously, infernally boring. And for every Paul Smart 750 SS, there’s a bunch of Cucciolos, which, unless you literally bathe in Ducati motor oil, is just another 50-cc scooter of which there were billions in Italy after the war. So, it was more Canadian politeness than real intrigue that compelled me to accept Dainese’s invitation to visit its recently opened “archivio” in Vicenza, Italy.

But it ended up being quite captivating. Oh, it started with mausoleum, which houses Dainese’s most famous racing suits from the past, I knew I was home.