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Despite its somber context, I’m very happy that The New Yorker just published this old favorite picture of mine, paired with a compelling, in-depth story by Nick Paumgarten (see link in bio) about mountaineer @Conrad_Anker coming to terms with the deaths of many friends, especially the legendary climber Alex Lowe, pictured here on the left. In this scene, shot in January 1997, Alex and Conrad have just returned from climbing a difficult new route on Mount Tyree, the second highest peak in #Antarctica, and are already planning the next ascent in their long partnership. Two years later, while teamed together again to climb and ski lofty Mount Shishapangma in Tibet, Alex was tragically killed by a massive avalanche that Conrad barely survived. Paumgarten writes very thoughtfully about the gaping hole his death left not just for Conrad and Alex’s family, but the lives of all who knew him, my own included. #mountaineering #alexlowe #friendship https://www.instagram.com/p/B9DepGQhhke/?igshid=1t8jfpinelp4l

[runchef]

We’re proud to host #Julian newest and only @littlefreelibrary. We have a few books about the folks that grace our walls @tonyhawk @rodneymullen @sternshow #AlexLowe as well as some works by local authors and about local artists. #jameshubbell #kathyscott #donwilson #elanorburns #quiltinaday #discoverjulian #visitjulian #littlefreelibrary More books coming soon. #shareabook #takeabook (at Regulars Wanted) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7PEOLkHD6b/?igshid=1sg9vun4za243

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Breaking news! Alex Lowe is joining the MOTHER Knows Best series 2 cast! He will be joining @shmallett @evelynlockley @warmanhannah @chrismayo and more, but we need your support please donate to the Kickstarter now. Link in my bio. Love you. @motherknowsbesthq #alexlowe #motherknowsbest #actors #acting #webseries #headshots #comedy https://www.instagram.com/p/BzxhLKqFQRo/?igshid=3e2vz867frah

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Using some obstruction to find a different look. @alexlowes22 on the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca during warm ups. #22 #alexlowes #yamaha #yzf #yzfr1 #fast #motoamerica #worldsbk #superbike #motoracing #motorcycle #motorbike #motorbikes #instamoto #lagunaseca #speed #saturdayfun #instafun #racing #motul #obstruction #california (at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca)

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Lowes Re-Signs With Kawasaki Racing Team

Alex Lowes will remain an integral part of the Kawasaki Racing Team for the coming seasons, having agreed a new multi-year deal that will take him into his third year as an official Kawasaki WorldSBK rider. The contract signing was witnessed by Mr Masatoshi Yoshioka, Director of Corporate Planning Division, Kawasaki Motors Europe at the recent Assen round of the 2021 FIM WorldSBK Championship, where Alex retained his overall fourth place in the points table. As well as returning as a full KRT Superbike rider next year Alex will also strengthen his bond with Kawasaki and his KRT squad as he and Jonathan Rea will be joined by 2021 Kawasaki superbike debutant, Lucas Mahias, to compete in the prestigious Suzuka 8 Hours race later this year. With a race win and seven other podiums to his credit since he joined Kawasaki in 2019 Lowes continues to find a greater affinity with the new Ninja ZX-10RR, his team and his pit crew, led by Marcel Duinker. Before the 2022 season there is the small matter of the rest of this year’s championship to go. Five rounds have been completed with a further eight to go, depending on local regulations around the global pandemic. Alex Lowes, stated: “I am really happy to have signed once more with the Kawasaki Racing Team, the most successful team in the current era of WorldSBK. After a strange first year in the team last year due to the global situation and with such a short season it has been good to start this year at some different tracks and I am understanding the bike a lot more. It has also been slightly frustrating this year because I feel like we started strongly but the results are not quite where we would want them to be right now. We have a lot of potential and I am still in the top four of the championship, close to the top three, which is the target for this year. I will be working hard for the next few weeks to make that next step to be regularly challenging for the podium. Honestly, I feel like it is close, so with this team and all these guys around me - with the relationships we have been building - everything is in place now to push things forward. I am really thankful to stay in the team next year, and proud of the faith that Kawasaki has shown in me. In our job there is a lot more that goes on behind the scenes than the results that you see on the track so I am really happy about this new deal with KRT. A massive thanks to all the guys behind the project, to Guim and Biel Roda, Steve Guttridge and all the people at KHI in Japan for believing in me again.” KRT Manager, Guim Roda, concluded: “Alex started with KRT during the Covid pandemic. He needed to learn quickly and concentrate on making championship points in those first three months; not easy. For 2021 he started the season strongly and we are all working to make those important steps to improve the performance of the overall package. We are so happy to have Alex and he is highly motivated to continue with the KRT project. With this two-year agreement we are convinced that we will now build on these firm foundations to create the strongest package with him, Marcel, his Crew Chief, the Ninja ZX-10RR and the entire KRT organisation.” 2021 Alex Lowes Rider Statistics Alex Lowes: 2021: Races: 15, Wins 0, Podiums 4, Superpoles 0 Career Race Wins: 2 (1 for Kawasaki) Career Podiums: 28 (8 for Kawasaki) Career Poles: 1 (0 for Kawasaki) For more info checkout our dedicated World Superbike News page World Superbike News Or visit the official World Superbike website WorldSBK.com Follow us on social media: Instagram: @superbikenews Twitter: @sbknews Facebook: @superbikenews SBN Directory - add your motorcycle related business here

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Rinaldi Vs Rea: Independent star holds Champion at bay in FP2

Michael Ruben Rinaldi sets the pace on Friday as WorldSBK action continues at MotorLand Aragon. MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship action continued with the Pirelli Teruel Round as Michael Ruben Rinaldi (Team GOELEVEN) continued to show impressive pace at MotorLand Aragon with the Italian rider topping both Free Practice sessions on Friday running as he edged out the reigning Champion by just 0.001s. Rinaldi posted a time of 1’49.840s in Free Practice 1, a good enough time to top the combined timesheets, ahead of five-time Champion Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) by the smallest of margins as just 0.001s separated the duo after the two 50-minute sessions. Rea’s teammate, Alex Lowes, finished the session in third place as he made it two Kawasaki machines in the top three. Tom Sykes (BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) finished the day in fourth place as BMW started to bounce back from a challenging Aragon Round at the same circuit while his BMW teammate, Eugene Laverty finished the day in 12th place as he also looks to rebound following a difficult weekend last time out. Toprak Razgatlioglu (PATA YAMAHA WorldSBK Official Team) was another looking to make a step forward following the Aragon Round and finished the day in fifth place while Michael van der Mark (PATA YAMAHA WorldSBK Official Team) was in eighth place; Razgatlioglu lapping around eight tenths off Rinaldi’s pace. Chaz Davies (ARUBA.IT Read the full article

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#HBD #HappyBirthday #AlexLowe #NeverStopExploring #TheNorthFace #LungsWithLegs You may not be with us anymore, but you still inspire us to achieve what others think is impossible. #AlwaysStopForLattes #havefun #livelife #merrychristmaseve @jenniloweanker #alexlowefoundation (at Regulars Wanted) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6eDMa4HiPQ/?igshid=130x03ykr3vd6

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In honor of Alex Lowe, we’ll be running this special today. A white chocolate to represent the snow capped peaks he loved to climb & ski topped, with our @ccoforganic @cafevirtuoso Guatemala coffee plus an 2 extra shots of espresso to keep you up on the way to a hospital! A portion of sales for today’s special will be donated to the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation. #regularswantedbeanery #regularswanted #AlexLowe #alexlowecharitablefoundation #khumbuclimbingcenter (at Regulars Wanted) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxU5ghWnLSa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sa99h2igbeja

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Who are all these people on the walls around this place? Let’s start by introducing you to who many consider to be the greatest mountain climber to ever live #AlexLowe a.k.a. #LungsWithLegs This is a story about Alex and why he’s in our wall: “I In one famous incident a free-standing icicle he was climbing broke free, carrying him 30m down before he hit a ledge, smashing his forehead into his ice axe. Lowe, however, promptly stood up and proclaimed himself okay. But his friends could see he wasn’t: A large section of his scalp was draped over one eye, exposing his skull. Undeterred, Lowe later recalled what followed: “We…kinda taped the scalp back into place, and put a hat on, and taped around the hat, and started skiing out. [We] kinda knew it was time to go to the ER. But we also knew it was going to be a long evening there, so we stopped down at the coffee shop and got lattes. It was great. My clothes were saturated with blood. We parked in the handicap spot in front of the coffee shop, marched right in, and then headed for the hospital.” We’d hope to be the ones serving coffee to the next great climber on the way to the E.R. or even better just on the way to work. Story Source: www.adventure-journal.com 📸: #ChrisNoblePhotography via the generous folks at the now defunct @thenorthface Carlsbad, CA. #neverstopexploring (at Regulars Wanted) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxU1YYTn35O/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=532368sofqag

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Yamaha Motor Europe Confirm Extended WorldSBK Line Up For 2019

Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to announce its official line up for the 2019 FIM Superbike World Championship. The Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Team will once again lead the way as Yamaha’s reference team, but this year they’ll be joined on the grid by the GRT Yamaha Supported WorldSBK Team, who step up to the premier production class for the 2019 season.

2019 marks the fourth year for the partnership between Yamaha and Crescent Racing and both parties are keen to build on the success of the 2018 season, during which the Pata Yamaha WorldSBK riders, Michael van der Mark and Alex Lowes, secured three race wins and a total of 14 podium finishes between them. Van der Mark and Lowes remain with the team for the coming season, with both keen to add to their tally of wins as they look to challenge for the championship in 2019.

Having achieved everything possible in WorldSSP, including winning the World Championship crown in 2017, GRT Yamaha face a new challenge in 2019, as the team step up to contest the FIM Superbike World Championship for the first time. Former 250cc World Champion and WorldSBK race winner Marco Melandri is joined at GRT Yamaha by the reigning WorldSSP Champion Sandro Cortese, who swaps last year’s title-winning YZF-R6 for the race winning Yamaha YZF-R1 WorldSBK machine this season.

The Pata Yamaha and GRT Yamaha teams are currently testing in Europe, but in February both teams will head south of the equator to test and then race at the iconic Phillip Island Circuit in Australia, venue for the opening round of the 2019 FIM Superbike World Championship.

Andrea Dosoli Yamaha Motor Europe Road Racing Manager “We are pleased with the way the Yamaha Motor Europe racing program has progressed. We saw a clear improvement in 2018, with not just our YZF-R1 reaching maturity but also our racing operation at the track and our operation in the factory. For this reason I’m very happy to confirm our relationship with Crescent Racing as our reference team in WorldSBK will continue for the 2019 season, with Michael van der Mark and Alex Lowes as the riders once again. I truly believe that continuity is critical for success in motorsport. If we can continue to work in the same way as we did in 2018 and strive to achieve the consistency that was maybe missing last year, I am confident we can make a further step in the right direction. The 2019 season will be a strategic one for us. The arrival of GRT Yamaha in WorldSBK means we now have four riders on the grid, which gives us a good opportunity to speed up development of the bike, but it’s also the final piece in our rider development program. We now have a program in place for young riders that starts with the Yamaha bLU cRU project and extends all the way to WorldSBK with a competitive machine and a competitive team. So I’m pleased to welcome GRT Yamaha to WorldSBK with Marco Melandri and Sandri Cortese, with the latter, having won the 2018 WorldSSP Championship aboard a Yamaha, being a clear example of the rider development program in action.”

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Strong Start to 2019 Season for Yamaha WorldSBK Riders

Alex Lowes got his 2019 WorldSBK campaign off to a flying start in the first test of the new season in Jerez this week. The Pata Yamaha WorldSBK rider finished the two-day test second on the timesheet, just 0.2s off the top spot, while Michael van der Mark declared himself happy with the progress made during the test, which he finished in seventh position. Both GRT Yamaha Supported WorldSBK riders, Sandro Cortese and Marco Melandri, continued their familiarisation with the Yamaha YZF-R1 they’ll campaign for the first time this season, ending the test in sixth and eighth place respectively.

A recently resurfaced Jerez track and cool conditions meant a cautious start to the test for Pata Yamaha’s Lowes and van der Mark, both of whom used the first day to confirm set up changes tested at the same circuit back in November. It was Lowes who set the pace on the opening day, storming to the top of the timesheet with a lap time of 1’40.442. Van der Mark, who is still recovering from a wrist injury sustained in the final race of the 2018 season in Qatar, ended the day fifth with a time of 1’41.047.

With improved conditions for the second and final day of testing in Jerez, both Pata Yamaha riders switched their focus to evaluating a number of chassis upgrades, with positive results. Lowes once again led the Yamaha charge, posting a time of 1’39.372 to end the day second fastest, while van der Mark also improved his pace, with a lap time of 1’40.145 securing him seventh position on the timesheet.

For the GRT Yamaha riders the focus during the two days of the Jerez test was to continue the familiarization process started back in November at the same track. Both Cortese and Melandri completed an extensive test program, as they worked with their respective crews to set up the YZF-R1 machines they’ll race this year to suit their individual riding styles.

Melandri identified a number of areas on which to focus when the team moves on to Portimão to continue testing later this week, while Cortese declared himself satisfied with progress after setting his fastest time right at the end of the test with a base set up that gave him more confidence to push for a fast lap.

The Pata Yamaha WorldSBK and GRT Yamaha Supported WorldSBK teams now head to Portimão for two more days of testing on Sunday and Monday, after which the bikes will be packed and shipped to Australia for the opening round of the 2019 FIM Superbike World Championship at the Phillip Island circuit.

Alex Lowes – P2 – 1’39.372 “It’s been a good two days here in Jerez. My best lap today was done on a qualifying tyre. I managed a 1’39.8 with the race tyre, so I found half a second on the qualifier, which is quite good because I think there’s not as much of a gap as there used to be. The bike felt good in qualifying trim and we did a good long run in race trim. The new track surface was quite hard on the tyres, especially the front, but it’s good to have this information now, ahead of the race. We tried a lot of things on the bike today, confirming some of the changes we made yesterday, which was positive given the change in track conditions. This afternoon we worked on the front of the bike and, at the start, we went a little bit in the wrong direction, but then came back and found some improvement, so a proper testing day. Now I’m looking forward to Portimão, where we’ll test what we’ve learnt here on a completely different track. Big thanks to the team and to Yamaha for the work they’ve done over the winter; it certainly looks to have paid off.”

Michael van der Mark – P7 – 1’40.145 “It’s been a really positive test. For me it was important to see how my wrist is after the winter break and I’m feeling quite good with it. I’ll certainly be fully fit once we get to Phillip Island for the first race. Once the track had cleaned up yesterday afternoon we tried so many things on the bike, with some big improvements that I like a lot and I think Alex thinks the same. There’s obviously been a lot of hard work done over the winter and it’s good for the people who put in the work to see their efforts rewarded at the first test of the season. I’m happy with what we achieved here in Jerez and now I’m looking forward to Portimão.”

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