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Caalendar Kitten and Playby Playmate Heather Rae Young is featured on the cover of the new 2011 Fast Dates Calendar with American Ben Spie's 2009 World Superbike Championship winning Yamaha YZR-1.

Marking the 20th Anniversary of the Fast Dates Calendar!
Kittens Shoot 2011 Fast Dates World Superbike Calendar
with Top Factory Teams at Miller USA Race Weekend
By Jim Gianatsis

Miller Motorsport Park, Tooele, Utah, 29- 31 May 2009 - It's unreal to think it's been 20 years we've been producing the Fast Dates Racebike Swimsuit Model PinUp Calendar. The first 1991 edition of the then Mikuni Fast Dates Calendar premiered in the summer of 1990 featuring a then unknown Playboy Playmate on the cover named Pamela Anderson, posing in a pink bikini in the saddle of Miguel Duhamel's Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R750L AMA Superbike. Then published by Mikuni American, still one of my advertsing cleints today, the Calendar was used as a promotion to show all the top racing bikes of the time which used Mikuni carburetors.

Playboy Playmate Pamela Anderson with all-natural enhancements was featured on the cover of the first Fast Dates Calendar whicd we photographed 20 years ago. The bike is Miguel Duhamel's Yoshimur Suzuki GSXR750 running Mikuni RS Flatside Carburetors. A few new copies of the 1991 calendars are still available for sale in Collectors Corner.

A little know fact, but there actually were earlier Mikuni Calendars, but the public never got to see them. In the 1980s Mikuni purchased pre printed nude model calendars from a printer in Japan imprinted with Mikuni's company name on them, and sent them out to distributors and friends at Christmas time. I became their ad agency around 1987 and convinced them it might be fun to publish our own nude calendar and incorporate the Mikuni carburetors in the pictures. The first original Mikuni Calendar was published for 1990 and featured my photo of Playboy Playmate Terri Lynn Doss on the cover holding a Mikuni carburetor, with purchased stock photos of nude Penthouse models inside. We advertised the calendar in Cycle News the fall and sold out the complete print run of 1,000.

For 1991 we wanted to try and offer them retail in motorcycle dealers through Mikuni distributors, but we knew we could sell nude pinup model calendars in a family visited motorcycle dealership, so I shot the next calendar with all the models in swimsuits or lingerie with top racing bikes that used Mikuni carburetors and Fast Dates was born. In successive years other Mikuni Calendars were made for their other markets: Berm Busters motocross, Hot Waves personal watercraft, Iron & Lace custom bikes, Ripped Pavement roadracing action and Garage Girls pinups. As the markets have changed, and sexual harassment laws became established and enforced in America, some of those titles have come and gone, Mikuni American gave their Calendar program to Gianatsis Design.

Flash forward 20 years and I'm flying into Salt Lake City Utah with beautiful FastDates.com Calendar Kitten Sabella Shake who is featured in all three editions of the new 2010 Calendars which released for sale on July 1st. Traveling with us is a case of the new Fast Dates Calendars with brunette Sabella on the cover together with her girlfriend, blond Paris Hilton look-a-like Rachel Bernstein. We will be handing out the new Calendar to the factory teams at riders on Thursday afternoon at the Miller Motorsports USA round of the SBK World Superbike Championship as a thank you for last year's Miller shoot, and to remind them to have their bikes ready for us to photograph that evening for the 2011 Fast Dates Calendar

Beautiful bikini models wandering the team garages at World Superbike....this must be the annual Fast Dates Calendar shoot!

Normally I wouldn't hire the same model for two possible covers in a row, but one look at beautiful Sabella and how a tiny bikini frames into an erotic work of art her incredibly sexy, hard, curvaceous body and it just doesn't matter. You can never get too much of a good thing!

Did I forget to mention that you might know Sabella? If you've ever been to Cannery Row in Monterey, CA, during a Superbike or MotoGP race weekend at Laguna Seca, you might have eaten at on of her restaurants. She was born and raised in Monterey where her parents own two well know seafood restaurants there on Cannery Row and the Pier. After graduating high school 3 years ago, Sabella moved to West Los Angeles to attend Loyola Marymount University where our 21 year old is just completing her pre-law Bachelor's degree towards being a "Sexy Attorney who kicks ass in the courtroom!" And for fun she models part time.

2011 Fast Dates Calednar Kittens Sabella Shake, left, and Leanna Pareja, right shooting at Miller. But don't wait for next years calendar... Sabela is featured in the all three new 2010 FastDates.com Calendars which go on sale July 1st 2009 and are availble right now for downloading in Members Corner.

Joining us at the track on Friday at Miller was the Sugar Blond to our spicy Miss Pepper, southern California swimsuit model and beauty pageant winner Leanna Pareja. Her own business in wireless sales and a boyfriend brought Leanna to Salt Lake City about 2 years ago, but we can tell you she's already planning her return to much missed SoCal.

By the time World Supersort practice had wrapped up at 5:30 on Friday evening, the factory teams were already rolling their team bikes out on pit lane in front of their Garages for us to photograph. This being a Fast dates shoot, if you've ever read the stories of past shoots, you know something major always goes wrong just before shoot gets underway. This year I am happy to report our two Kittens were perfect Angels and they did an incredible job of posing with the bikes, changing suits in a stairwell, and tolerating hundreds of leering riders, mechanics and the media with cameras pressing in from behind me while we tried to work.

Last year's double WSB race winner Carlos Checa wanted to get in on the action when we moved over to the Ten kate Honda garages to shoot his race bike.

The Calendar shooting drama this year included the weather, and both my fill flash units which refused to work. At home before coming I had test both units thoroughly, one in fact was brand new for added insurance, and I had spares of full charged ni-cad batteries. But the moment I set either flash unit on their tripods they just quit working. And to compound the problem the sky turned black as thunder clouds rolled in and it began to sprinkle. My only option was to open up the ISO speed on my digital Hasselblad HP3-39 from 100 to 400 and drop the shutter speed down to 1/125 sec to keep the bike and models within the focus depth of field.

The riders were falling in love with our girls at every garage stop, this time it was Jakub Smrz.

Towards the end of the evening shoot World Championship points leader Noriyuki Haga's 1198RS was ready for us to shoot. Now it was really getting dark and I was really nervous about getting the most important shot for the Calendar. The Hasselblad has a built in on-camera flash which I've never tried to use, and I didn't know how to set it for Main or Fill Flash. But I popped it up, crossed my fingers and gave it a try and the test shot came out perfect with no needed readjustment. The pictures came out perfect, and next year's 2011 Fast Dates Cover will probably come out of this setup with Sabella and Leanna and the Number 41 bike. Man, was I relieved Whew!

With the photography for the 2011 Fast Dates Calendar completed on Saturday, I gave Sabella over to Davide Tardozzi at Ducati Corse to serve as the team's Umbrella Girl on Sunday, just as we do almost every year. Normally Sabella might have been paired with Championship points leader Nori Haga, but Nori had crashed in Saturday practice and was in so much pain he could only qualify that afternoon on the 3rd row. Team mate Michel Fabrizio, however, was 2nd in points and had qualified in 4th to earn a front row start at Miller. So Sabella was paired with Michel on the grid for both World Superbike races, with Michel turning in strong 3rd and 2nd place finishes both races behind American Ben Spies.

Sabella and Michel on the starting grid.

Needless to say, both Michel and Fabrizio became infatuated with other over the weekend. On Saturday Michel was driving her in a golf cart around the paddock and over to the Ducati display in the spectator midway for his official poser signing session. They even stopped by his trailer in the paddock so he could log online with his laptop computer and show her a Translation Website she could use to write to him Emails, since he couldn't speak or read English, and she couldn't speak or read Italian.

In all it was a great weekend at Miller Motorsports World Superbike. The organization and hospitality by SBK and Miller Motorsports, and their people was incredible, as was the racing, particularly with the addition of the 600 World Supersport Class to the program. Who needs AMA any more?

2009 Miller World Superbike Race Report • Fast Dates Calendar News Home

An Exclusie Sneak Peak! Beautiful Calendar Kittens Sabella Shake. Leanna Parejaand and Playboy Playmaate Heather Rae Young arefeatured in the 2011 official SBK World Superbike Calendar with the super sexy Ducati 1198R. Heather will also be at our Calendar Show Premier in July. See all the 2011 Calendar Pagesnow as down loadable full size screensavers in Member's Corner.

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Above: Twenty-one year old supermodel Karen Elson, from Manchester, England, is freatured totally nude in the 2006 Pirelli Calendar. Karen won VH1's fashion Award for Female Model of the Year. Her rise to fame has been meteoric, and she has turned up in virtually every fashion magazine from Milan to Paris, to London to New York. She has worked on major advertising campaigns for Channel, Versace, Lacroix and Moschino, and Clinique's Happy.

Pit Board Editorial

Pinup Calendars in America - an American Double Standard?
On prime time national television every November (FOX, CBS) Americans are treated to a Victoria's Secret 1-hour special of supermodels parading around in very revealing lace underware for the world to see. This was somewhat of a first for prime time National TV broadcast and actually a really good thing for our morally confused country.

But it's hardly anything new. Victoria's Secret lingerie commercials have been running onprime time TV programs Plus the Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Shows have been regular broadcasts on E! television for 10 years.

And let's not overlook the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue is the biggest selling magazine in America with its sexy swimsuit covers, and that it sits on all public newstands for some 3 months. And that the Victoria's Secrect Catalog is mailed out more households in America than any magazine.


American movie actress James King (Pearl Harbor) in her shoot for the $1 million budget Pirelli Tire calendar, featuring her in wet lingerie in the pouring rain, a calendar which you'll never see in America.

Or the simple fact that at the checkout counter of every supermarket in America is a rack of young women's magazines from Cosmopolitan to Shape to Glamour featuring some sexy young supermodel in a full frontal bikini swimsuit shots similar to the one of Heidi Klum above, compelling you to pick her up and bring her home. We are also glad to see all the refreshing and sexist new men's mainstream magazines now available in America from Maxim to FHM to Stuff featuring some well known, sexy bikini clad actress or model. Things are slowly changing for the better, although certainly not as close to the European standard of acceptability which includes nudity in many mainstream newspapers, on roadside billboards, in magazines and on TV, both in advertising and editorial features.

But this American acknowledgement of the normal sexuality of human kind still remains taboo in some elements of our society, including parts of the motorcycle industry, particulary when it comes to pinup calendars like those published by FastDates.com and our competitors. Did you know that 2 major bike brand U.S. distributors and their factory race teams will not allow us to photograph their bikes with even a fully clothed model? While their more prominent counterparts -the factory World Superbike Castrol Honda and Corona Suzuki World Superbike teams welcome us to photograph their bikes for the Fast Dates Racebike Pinup Calendar each year.

A page from the 2004 Pirelli Calendar which features teenage Supermodels acting out their fantasies. That just could be our fantasy as well.

Europe is an even more open culture than America, and the Ducati Corse factory race team in Italy makes their bikes available for a nude racebike pinup calendar. While the factory Yamaha Superbike team last sason even used topless umbrella girls on the starting grid of the World Superbikes races!

While America still remains burried in arcahic morality and stupidity supported by idiotic and vague laws. Where one person can choose what is offensive or acceptable to them and have their very narrow views over ride the law and the majority who are not offended.

For example, more than one of our biggest FastDates.com calendar distributors has been threatened with lawsuits by one of their female employees who found it "offensive" to see a pinup calendar hanging up at work (probably in the private office or work cubicle of a male employee -never mind the model was in a halter top and cutoff jeans like you would see on girls every day at the local mall). The distributors' attorneys then advised them to ban all pinup posters and calendars from company walls, and then required that all pinup calendars sold by the distributor should be wrapped in plain black opaque plastic wrappers like an adult porno magazine. They couldn't chance a female employee in their warehouse being offended by having to pull one of our calendars off the warehouse shelf and place it in an outgoing dealer order - and then in turn sue the distributor for millions of dollars in "mental stress".

That's bad enough. But what really gets us mad is this "double standard" in America. A picture of a pretty girl in a swimsuit or lingerie is -if it appears on the cover of a magazine in a public place (supermarket, newstand, office waiting lounge) or in a Victoria's Secret advertisement or feature program on National television it's perfectly acceptable. Even most liquor stores in America feature swimsuit pinup advertising posters from major beer companies like Budweiser and Miller.

But take that exact same picture of Heidi Klum from the Victoria's Sercret advertising campaigns plastered in 2-page ad spreads every magazine, on Hollywood and Times Square billboards, and on national television -and hang it up in the work place and you are fucked. Just like Snap-on Tools can no longer print their once famous pinup calendarshung up in garages by mechanics without the threat of being sued by an offended female customer and her greedy attorney.

Why is it acceptable to look at Heidi Klum in sexy lingerie on the billboard outside your office window, or on the cover of the FHM magazine in the office waiting room, but you and your company can be sued if that same picture is hanging up on your office wall? What about a celebrity calendar of Brad Pitt or Britnery Spears? Yes, that can be deemed offensive as well. Go figure.

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