Former home of the '66 TT - somewhere on the edge of the desert, near Barstow, California OK, I've thought long and hard about this. Forget all the claptrap that guy from Bates' MCs - or whatever the place was called - gave me about some dude named "Jed" that used to campaign this TT in desert races before getting blown away in 'Nam. I wasn't convinced by it. The Bonneville was never considered a great bike for desert racing, where reliability took precedence over speed and