Way to scoop, MO!
This is good shyt, Man.
I started on Harleys and moved to BMW, but I've learned o love it all.
As to the bike, it's refreshing, I think, to see something other than the obligitory red coming on an Itlaian exotic. My only complaint would be the Triumph-caricature "Mondial" logo on the side. But I'll get over it, I'm sure.
As to the story, you know, Staff, that God is in the details. Someone there at MO HQ really needs to be checking Yossef's stories for spelling and punctuation. I love his word-play and style, so I'll give on the sometimes unorthodox grammar, but spelling and punctuation are small things that mark professionalism from mere enthusiasm.
As far as I know, MO is the *only* mag that hires an actual Europaean as their Euro. correspondant. This is great. All the others hire Brits, which is fine, but tends to impart a distinctly Brittish flavour to the stories we in America get about the Italian and German bikes. I like that the stories coming out on Italian bikes are written by a man MO has on the ground IN ITALY. Alan Cathcart (bless him) would b1tch that the Piega has no clock or cetrestand, and "Why is the petrol economy so $hitty?"
Yossef's style is really unique in the moto biz (at least amoung those I've read) and I look forward to his contributions almost as much as I did to Greg's. Go MO!