Wednesday, June 8, 2011

back to back assen


At Assen for the second round of the 848s, we were part of the Dutch Ducati weekend, good weekend with a 4th in race one and a 2nd in race two, second in the championship.


Now this is a bike starter, its a ducati 996 engine





















Back again, this time with the ICGP on the tz350 as a support race for the Dutch superbike series, this is the repaired engine case after the gears had had enough of being suck inside the caseings in Spain. Nothing else to report from Assen as all that went on were 4 engine failures,bugger, back to blighty for the next round of the 848s at Thruxton.










Friday, April 29, 2011

Brands Hatch Ducati 848


This is Alan Walkers Ducati 848 that he campaigned in last years 848 series, Bloke is ridding it in the first 2 races of the 2011 series, Alan will be ridding it in the rest of the series as he is getting a new evo bike built for bloke to ride. Excellent start to the series, second place in both races, off to Assen for the next round. www.ducati848challenge.co.uk






ICGP Catalunya


First race of the year not a bad start top of the podium for bloke.
After all the problems with practice and qualifing cant ask for more.


Timing slipted in practice, luckly only holed one piston and the bore was ok.













Race 2 was going well lead from lap 2, started to have problems with gear selection,stopped on lap 5, as the gear box had had enough, circlip came off the selector shaft and you can see the result.










This is a lovely looking Bimoto tz.





The ICGP racing was invition race for for the Masters Historic Racing Series, www.themastersseries.com , so we got to see and hear these beasts on full noise, nice.



















































Sunday, March 27, 2011

1980 CB750 finished

Ready for the summer,had it's first run out to the testing station, ran like a dream, passed test with flying colours, all set for many 'smiles per miles'



Saturday, March 12, 2011

on going project's


This is the first one to be finished, cb750fa 1980, it should be all done by the end of march.





A couple of other 750 engines on show here, both are now built


Bike 2, engine is ready to go in once bike 1 has gone.

racing season is starting at last


This is VR racings Harris framed Yamaha tz350, first time testing for bloke to hopefully race in this years ICGP serie, www.icgpracing.com







The bikes you see at test days are great, this is a Vincent on honda running gear




Called in at a local tuning shop and they had this beast on the ramp for a little bit of tweeking, it used to run in the italian battle of the twins.