Markz9

that's better nice set of 41mm they should pick up nicely !! do you want to try and meet up before you go ? or wait until you get back

I thought you were working you are on a jolly !!

Ok now the season has finished time to start doing some jobs and upgrades I have wanted to carry out I have never been a fan of hydraulic clutches and prefer cable but also wanted a yoshi battery holder by the gearbox sprocket there is a way round this other than the works dry clutch, so now I have the parts I need thank duncan and roger u I can now have a play there will be other bits being changed and I will post as I get round to them and an update on my last few races

Thanks that was the first time I had ridden the bike and the first time it had moved under its own power few bits undid themselves including one bell mouth, but quite successful weekend and spa is probably my favourite track

that sounds like a good few days even better if you don't have to mess about with the bike much Friday practice at oulton went well right up to when I fell off it was drizzling and that my excuse good track I have never been round before did quite well and won my races but I think I may need a bit of Duncan input

how did it go Duncan saw some piccys on face ache ?

Ok that weekend went quite well and some silver ware I will post something later

sorry I have been a bit slack updating the year so far I have been racing the gsxr 750 (little bertha) and gsxr1216 (big bertha) so big bertha first outing was at the Spa classic this year As usual everything was left until the last minute the forks came back from a service and re-spring at Maxton via courier on wed and by 7pm I had all the wheels back on at ray debben and we could load it unridden and untested into the van Long trip to spa took about 8 hours, a lot of road works, finally arrived and went through the normal stuff ray had made me promise to do three laps maximum and come back in to the paddock to check bolts, suspension, everything, was tight as this was the first time the bike had moved under its own steam. Want out on free practice the sun is shinning and came back in found a few bits to tighten nothing serious and one of my bell mouths had fallen off and landed where the alternator would be, lucky boy Next Qualif 1 disaster ready to go bike dead no electric nothing ! arrgh made rush managed to detach some wires form a crimped terminal but the issue was a blown fuse, got one from the van and out the beg to be allowed out just as which point red flag ! about 5 /6 bike down someone’s engine grenade Q2 already started the bike 3 or 4 times, no problem went out on the track 3 laps bike died I suspected fuel or spark I now know that the lithium Pi battery will last a race if all 6 bars are lit up on test, if I try to start on button without slave battery I get two goes and risk losing 2 bars on the battery, that will probably not last a race at spa ! Race 1 as qual was so poor, new bike and all the usual excuses I end up about 38 out of 52 on the grid, we go, bike going well revs seem a bit low only goes to 6k (now have wired around 2 leads so it works) got bit more settled on the bike and more comfortable, the seat height is spot on, I can move around and still feel tucked inside the bike. Decided ok to start getting a bit of a wriggle on so ended position 17 overall and 11 in my class and a 2.58 lap so chuffed, by the end I am scraping around some big corners bike feels very steady and quick Race 2 not so good just about to go out and noticed an oil leak, not bad but needed to be sorted and fuel carb float stuck open and losing fuel at an alarming rate, mostly over the hot engine, so I decided to miss the start, however a bad accident French chap blew his engine in big way just before la source about 5 went down and a friend of mine had to be air lifted to liege, and has now finally come out of a coma, which it did take the fun out of the weekend, if I was honest Next outing for both bertha's will be Castle Coombe at the beginning of September would like to thank chris at grumpy 1260 Ray Debben Performance and Duncan Williams on oldskool for all your help, and Colin Chapman at TPE for selling me the frame that started the whole thing off Mark

Happy to bring one of my race bikes if you still need a bike for the stand

Jason at fibreman check the trader section I think we get a discount

Hi no problem a lot of it is hidden under the tank was very solid around spa even out the back through la source I am at donington mid Aug formula pro stock and 1/2 sept castle Combe and will have both race bikes there if you want a look

this works well now I have managed to get it out on the track and try, it also lifts the seat unit to just the right height so does two jobs

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nice sticker Duncan have fun

Hi Duncan usual panic trying to sort bits and pieces I wanted to change the conti's tyres on the Yoshi gs1000 everyone must have been buying the 18" ones sorted some now so off to our first race with CSBK at the nuburgring gp track on the chunnel very early Friday, racing sat 05/05/18 but taking the Yoshi gs1000 this time I will give an update after that weekend hopefully I will be dry !

how did it go Duncan everything ok

I stuck mine on the left hand side and on the upper frame section

Probably about 80 -100 sag not good the Anderson socket turned cheers

These are the spare forks I think they may have the cartridges out of a cbr600rr in them

It was a bit of luck finding these places two other bikes were repaired radiator on a zx10r and engine case gsxr1000kso he did quite well that weekend I mucked up on the lap times they don’t record them and by the time I realised the equipment had already been sent Valencia should have borrowed yours ! Have a look at the forks picture I have about 50mm of movement something not quite right

And a picture of the bike on the track

Ok quick update managed to book some time off building the super sewer and with friend went off and had some practice at Cartagena for three days this was on the slabby 750, dropped the bikes off at Swindon to be transported down during the weekend of snow so a good start ! bike was running but as usual I hadn’t had chance to test it properly always seems to be last minute, anyway arrived at the track, bikes are unwrapped and my mates bandit and the slabby plus two fz600 are the oldest bikes by years. at this point I find out the gremlins have had a go a both bikes and they won’t start !! It’s sunny 3 days of track time and no bike !!! Managed to sort the bandit 1200 after stripping the wiring but that took a morning then started on mine first the brakes which had been spongy finally tightened up, after messing about with the spark plugs, leads, caps found that both the brand new ngk caps had dismantled themselves so be aware looks like the Chinese are copying caps also the centre bolts on the ignition trigger had unwound itself and come through the ignition cover when we had tried to bump start it at this point I was going to give up and find the nearest bar however someone mentioned there was a bike shop in the town that might help so two caps and one alloy welded 33 year old cover was popped back on and I was going great fun tight track to play on and 25 deg

is that the one in finland or Sweden he wants 4000 euro

Yes i am officially in the gang now