I wish you all a Merry Christmas! I have a busy weekend ahead of me now which is all about getting ready for Christmas as I leave for Norway on Monday to spend the holidays with my family and friends. I will bring my laptop though so there may be a couple more updates before the new year. When I get back from Norway in the new year I only have a few days home before I jet over to Sydney in Australia for the first and perhaps biggest world launch in 2009. We're talking about the big bang Yamaha R1 and the XJ6N/S. I have also been invited by Pirelli to their tyre launch at the high speed oval in Nardo at the heel of Italy. I can't wait to see which bikes Pirelli have booked for us on this launch which will be all about outright top speed! Stay tuned and you'll know what happens first! Below is a selection of the Xmas cards we have received so far! Tor

Headed over to Liverpool airport today in a taxi almost at the same price as my ticket with Ryanair. On the side of the Ryanair aircraft it was painted "Bye, bye Latehansa"! How suitable it was then that my flight to Oslo was 30 minutes delayed and then after take-off we had to return to Liverpool airport due to a hydraulic problem. 3 hours later a new aircraft was ready and I guess Lufthansa can start painting their aircrafts with "Bye, bye RyanCheapShitair"! The least I'd had expected after a maintenance emergency landing that delayed me more than 3 hours would be a free drink, but no they had the cheek to even charge Euro prices for the Sterling! My sister picked me up at Torp airport and we then had a 5 hour drive to the South of Norway to my family all night! We were very tired when we finally arrived in the early hours. zzzzzz T

Picked up my new custom painted trainers in town today! They're ace I think and Chris at Moot-Illustration did a great job! He'll do yours too if you contact him on the site! I then continued doing some more Christmas shopping. In the evening I met this mystery woman again and we had a great time over some lovely Tapas in Hale. TS

I wish you all a Merry Christmas! I have a busy weekend ahead of me now which is all about getting ready for Christmas as I leave for Norway on Monday to spend the holidays with my family and friends. I will bring my laptop though so there may be a couple more updates before the new year. When I get back from Norway in the new year I only have a few days home before I jet over to Sydney in Australia for the first and perhaps biggest world launch in 2009. We're talking about the big bang Yamaha R1 and the XJ6N/S. I have also been invited by Pirelli to their tyre launch at the high speed oval in Nardo at the heel of Italy. I can't wait to see which bikes Pirelli have booked for us on this launch which will be all about outright topspeed! Stay tuned and you'll know what happens first! Tor

Today has been an absolute fantastic day! Not only did I become an uncle for the first time today, I also had a great time at the Manchester Xmas market! I congratulate my sister Angelika and her husband Haakon with a newborn and healthy baby boy that they have named Herman. To celebrate, I had Champagne and dinner in the splendid company of a very gorgeous woman at Sam's Chop house in town.

Whilst I am still finishing more stuff from the Daytona 675 launch, I have made another film. It's all action with lots of cool triple noise from the Arrow mufflers. I hope you like it. Tor