'08 is a new year for DiSalvo in more ways than one. image by brian j kresbach

While passing time at the Yamaha Media day a few months back, Superbike racer Jason DiSalvo let slip that he had just shaved off a beard that any older Amish farmer or mountain man would have been proud to drive a buggy or ignore conventional society with.

As it is our staunch policy not to believe a frickin' word riders say when they are not at the racetrack, Soup immediately double-dog dared DiSalvo to grow another one.

Judging from the images sent to us from the recent Yamaha test at Las Vegas Motorspeedway (where DiSalvo was reputed to have been fastest) DiSalvo schooled us in a big way. Touche little man, touche.