Finishing touches?

In build terms I am on the home straight, however this does appear to be a very long and technically demanding straight. The bike is now in my own workshop where I will obviously be spending every evening putting the finishing touches to the mighty CRF mono. A big thanks to Donk at DBR for the work on the bike as these were tasks that I do not have the machinery or for site to have tackled myself. The rearsets are now in place and bolted up, check out the pics.

The GP adjusters are now full functional. This makes changing wheels a two minute job,you just undo the spindle, pull it out and the wheel just sits there in a half cup affair. Loverly juberley.

I have also plumbed in a Brembo master cylinder to work the fabulous BSB Brembo caliper, this feels more like a switch than a brake lever so I am expecting to go over the bars first time out.

Last but not least I have attached a cone air filter for the time being until I find out what a Dyno run says about the air needs will be for the CRF.

You wait for ages, then two come along at once?!?!

Right what can I say except, SHTICKERS!! Things are now moving at a good rate of knots. Mark at DBR has milled me up a very nice mounting bracket for a very sexy Brembo caliper (ex British super bike of all things) so as to mount it correctly in line with the disc and to hopefully stop the bike quicker than a quick stopping thing, he will also be working his wizardry with the rear caliper and GP adjusters so to make the rear quick and easy to pull apart, you know the one, will it rain? will it dry? and then all of a sudden you have ten minutes to change wheels.... so a set of his famous adjuster/locator's are an obvious must. With all this being taken care of I have done a bit more to the body work, firstly finishing the spray job and lacquer, this wasn't without its problems as the first few coats reacted and had to be striped back with a blade then started again, after this dried I pulled out the various stickers that were to be applied, some a must for the series and some for parts I am using within the engine build. This I think is it for the time being but don't despair as the engine will be out next week for a complete going over and tune up so there will be lots to tell you all soon.

Fairing surgery.

Its been a fair while!

Now as you all may have noticed I have its been a fair while since I last updated the build blog. There is a good reason for this, I have started a new job and due to this time and money has been hard to come by but thanks to a very very nice man (you know who you are) the build is now back on track and should be done and ready to race at Oulton park on the 15/16Th of August.

You all remember the dilemma over wheels, don't you?well the original plan was to use CB500 wheels but after much ridicule and general weight orientated questions I decided that it would be a better idea to go for a light weight wheel, and due to the nature of the build (all Honda please) these would ideally be Honda rs125 wheels, Now I had many opportunities to get wheels but believe it or not you cant get two sets complete for less than £1k so after allot of head scratching and trying to sell everything I own I still had no where near enough money to buy them. But all looked lost for the build until a top bloke I know offered me two pairs buck shee! that's free that is. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth and all that hey.

So now the wheels are away at a local race engineer being made to feel at home in my CRF chassis and I will put photos on when they are home again.

In the mean time please look at the piccies of my fairings that I am now blinging up by giving them a damn good lacquering and revamp, please not that the seat unit will be black and red in the end. well that's all for now folks. Fingers crossed please people!

Its been a fair while !