This is a superb example of how to create an entertaining yet informative video. *quality

Erm... I have 2 mixer taps in my house that were installed by the builders who built the house to NHBC standards and last time I looked I was still in Britain. And we have a tank in the loft...

Some of the pronunciations are off, esp "Canary" in both English and Italian, but we get the idea!

That is very impressive as it's not easy to roll from one into the other.

Thanks for the tip!

Think I might have to try that again...
*backup=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_YGtpvvoU0

*backup=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_YGtpvvoU0

"daywalker" rofl

I find this fascinating as someone who is colour blind; not that it affects my everyday life (grass is green, sky is blue, etc) but just that I cannot do specular tests.
The reason it is fascinating is that I struggle with the names of colours more than I struggle to see the colour. I know it's a colour. I know it's not the same as other colours. I just can't think of what the name of *that* colour is.
It drives my wife nuts as I often ask her "is this blue/green/whatever ?" and then I get The Look™ and told which colour it is.
This video is the first time that has made it make sense to me!

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Ah, Ducatisti! Haha. I actually worked at a Ducati dealership in the mid nineties. They actually sent me to service school in Fairfield, NJ to learn to work on the 916. They're a little to fast and agile for me, not to mention a little uncompromizing for the touring I like to do. Fabulous bikes though. I work with a guy who has a basement full of them, and is building a 70's one frame up right now from an old 750ss that somebody brutalized into a chopper. He's making a nasty cafe out of it.

Do you race motard? I'll behave myself because apparently you're quite mad! I've never raced, but I'm mot putting it out of my head that I might get out there some day. I'd like to do one of the schools, like penguin I think it's called, and I king Keith Code has a school and there's that California one you always see in the back of the bike mags. That and a couple of track days.


I've had the 748S since 2000 and it was joined by the 600SS in 2005 purely to race. The club that I belong to (Ducati Sporting Club UK) started its own race series so I had to have a go as trackdays were getting too competitive. If you're interested, I blogged a load of stuff on my website at the time: http://www.horrible.demon.co.uk/bikes/racing2005.htm

I stopped racing in 2007 after getting torpedoed from behind at about 90mph and that broke me and the bike; one collarbone and a few ribs for me and the bike was trashed. I rebuilt it once the collarbone had healed but it was a year later that I went back and raced - I came 7th (out of 38) so didn't do too bad for a year out!

The Hypermotard is strictly for wheelies^H^H road riding. It's an animal! Best bike I've ever owned and always makes me smile.

I've been to the Ducati factory in Bologna five times now and ended up organising the factory trips for the club which were quite popular! It's an amazing place, really interesting to see such a small factory at work on such a well-known name. Well worth doing if you can, even if you're not that much of a Ducati fan!

Some bike pictures:
Racing Pics
Bike pics

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hey Antonye, thanks for all your great contributions to the *wheels channel. What are you riding these days. Street or just track?

Hi,
Thanks for the comment! I love adding some of the great racing I watch onto the Sift as it deserves a much wider audience
As for me, I'm riding both street and track still, but have not raced this year. I have 3 bikes: Ducati Hypermotard 1100S (wheelies), Ducati 748S (fast road), Ducati 600SS with 620ie engine (race). Can you spot the theme?
Antony

In reply to your comment:
“Question: how did you merge the video game screen on your video? Is it special editiing software?”

Sorry, not my video (you do realise what VideoSift is about, right?!)...

...but I expect that they just used a mask and merged the two video streams together to produce the end result. Should be really easy to do in a pro editing tool.