The 2nd job of the day, a photo shoot...

Our 2nd job of the day on Saurday was a casual photo shoot with our bikes, here's a couple of pics of the three of us!!

Autograph session at out team sponsor Bikerstore, a case of mistaken fame!!!!!

I had a really funny moment on Saturday shortly before arriving for an autograph session at one of the team's sponsors Bikerstore in Bari Italy, we stayed the night before in a real nice hotel and i knew that in the morning we had a few things to do before heading off to another town for the team presentation that evening, well, i was due to meet team owner Genesio Bevilaqua downstairs at 9-30am for breakfast so unlike my normal self i got there 5 minutes early, the lift doors opened into the hotel lobby and there were people everywhere, the place was packed, TV cameras and paparazzi were all over the place, Bloody hell i thought, Genesio's gone big with this launch thing!!! I went straight in for breakfast to get away from everything only to find out that the ex Italian president was in there having breakfast two tables away, for a minute there i thought i was famous, ha ha ha!!!!

Inside the store, Flavio Gentile our teams Italian SBK rider, me and Carlos keeping on the right side of the law!!!!

The aftermath!!

Sneak preview!!!!

Hey guys and girls, here's a little sneak preview for you, i'm currently over in Italy as it's my teams (Althea Ducati) launch tonight, here's a few crafty i phone pics of the bike and potentially my new helmet design for you to see, i'll upload some proper photos probably tomorrow for you to see properly, but for now, here you go!!!

My new, old baby, this is my heavily updated ex Airwaves BSB title winning bike!!!!

Doesn't it look the absolute nuts, i'm well excited about Portimao next week!!!!

Pretty much my new design for 2010, a few tweaks here and there we'll be rocking!!!

Petra and Zack on the back, this design will change slightly... Zack's mini moto bound!!

The matt white stripes rock!!!

All a bit last minute...

What an absolute nightmare i had yesterday, i got a call from Midlife saying they needed my new Vito back in order to carry out some work that needs doing on it urgently but due to my schedule in the coming weeks the only day i could bring it back was yesterday, so after receiving his call around 3pm i got sorted, booked a ferry and a flight home and hit the road, that's where it all went downhill, driving up through France i got into some hardcore snow storms, in our car such things aren't a problem but in an unloaded Vito they become a bit of an issue, a few octopus handed attempts at keeping the thing in a straight line made me realise Vito's definitely don't do snow quite like a 4x4!!! All in all i saw a jack knifed lorry, and 3 cars crash, works wonder's for your concentration you know!!!! I finally arrived at Calais at 5-30am this morning only to be told i'd missed my slot, matey in the booth got a proper earful and eventually put me on another ferry.. at 6-45, the retard could've boarded me straight away but we spent too long discussing jack knifed lorries and snow drifts, i was fuming, i finally got to bed at 8-30am this morning and now i'm back up and on the new high speed train to London then onto Stanstead, it ain't easy!!! To top all that off it's my fiances birthday today and she's at home waiting for me to get back!!! It's all go here!!

The three wise monkies!!

Hey everyone, had a real cool day today, we've been snowboarding, it's literally been perfect conditions as you can see from the photos below, two of my good mates, Proff and Stef (aka Cake Dave) came over and we all went to the mountains, it was my first time on a snowboard in over 5 years but we soon got back into the swing of things, it was Stef's first time snowboarding full stop so he had a steady start but got going ok in the end, like i said it was highly amusing!!!!

The three wise monkies on top of the world!!

What a lovely view....

Proff begged me to say he'd just landed a 90ft jump, trust me, he hadn't!!!!!!

The 1st lift up, all smiles!!!

I'm sorry!!!

I'm sorry guys and girls but like a dipstick i forgot my log in and password details to upload blogs to you all, with all the dramas we've had over the past few days with travel due to snow it's not exactly been top of my priority's to sort it but done now, i'll get on the case with some proper updates soon, take it easy, Shakey #67

Happy new year!!

Hey guys and girls, just a bit of a message to say Happy new year, yes i know it's the 2nd already so i'm a bit late but there we go, i hope you all had a good time, we had a really quiet one in England which was nice, now we're just sat relaxing in the Czech Republic, it's -1 outside but the forecast is -12 later, i'm getting cold just typing it let alone feeling it, i'm hoping we're gonna get some more snow so that we can take Zack out on a sledge but we'll see, we've got 5 days over here now so plenty of time to train and relax in equal amounts which will be nice, i'm also hoping to go up to Praque for a look about too whilst we're over which will be cool, talk to you later, Shakey.