We're closed. Two fires of 8000 and 14000 acres have grown to 8+ fires!! Freeways are closed, massive evacuations, authorities urging everyone to stay in their homes. Expect we will not answer phones, ship packages, or make credit card transactions until Wednesday.

Below is something of a status map as of 0700 on Monday 22 October 2007

Hey Everyone,

We haven't yet been directly affected by San Diego's Witch Fire, however, we'll update with the latest news if we need to temporarily close.

The San Diego “Witch” fire is too reminiscent of 2003's deadly “Cedar” fire, only the “Santa Ana” winds are much worse this year than in 2003!! The Cedar fire covered 20 miles in only a few hours powered by strong Santa Ana winds, traveling from the same area as the “Witch” fire and across the route CCW employees travel to work! Click for a map of that fire: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/fires/map/031106firemap.html

Thursday, Oct 11, we’re focusing on in-house work. We’ve got to process a batch of Dyna coils and get caught up with e-mail and other projects. Apologies if you called and didn’t get through. We can’t even hear the phone ring when running the coils kits, let alone try to talk on the phones!

Information about our Dyna Coils Kits:

Were up all night working on the new revisions for the MH big tank with battery inset. So Tuesday will get a late start. Check the excellent MH900e Owner’s Club for sneak peek pics! Link: http://ducatiowners.com/discus/messages/279/2599.html

Apologies for the inconvenience: we allowed our “SSL Security Certificate” to lapse. It expired this week and it is now paid up again.

The certificate issued by the independent authority who validates our domain had just expired. While the encryption is the same, paying independent authorities for the certificate helps authenticate we are who we say we are. In other words, there never was a problem with security of information and everything is up to date and should be fine now without any warnings in your web browser.

We have just updated our Ducati Exhaust Systems page to include our newest vendor, Leo Vince. Leo Vince makes full exhaust systems for Ducati 1098, 999R, 999, and 749R Superbikes. Leo Vince makes oval slip-on mufflers with Titanium, Carbon, and Aluminum outer skin for Ducati’s popular Monster family: Monster S2R1000, S4R, S2R800, M1000ie, M900ie, M900, M800ie, M750ie, M750, M695, M620ie, and M600.

Leo Vince also offers aluminum slipon offerings for Ducati’s Multistrada MTS1100, MTS1000 as well as the Sport Touring ST3. The MTS mufflers have an attractive cone-shaped end cap that works well with the tail of the bike.

Hi everyone - Candice has a few days off and we miss her. If response to your e-mail or message takes a little longer, sorry about that! We're hard at work getting orders processed and staying on top of things.

Thanks,
Chris

We are working on the transition from Microsoft Windows operating systems (mostly XP) to all Linux OSs (mostly ubuntu). To better serve you, we are making this move away from closed-source, proprietary programs and making the move to open source solutions which enable us greater flexibility.

Some great info:
Free Office-Suite of programs for windows, linux, etc: OpenOffice.org
Other FREE open source programs for windows: site1 - site2 - site3 - site4 - site5
Open source graphics programs for linux. And more. (likely google can tell you about many!)
Ubuntu and Kubuntu are two of many linux operating system distributions.