Oulton Race Photo's

Just a few photo's from the Oulton race to show what the bike looks like in action.

Finished and Used!

Here we have it, the finished machine. It has taken alot of hard work and alot of help to get to this point and as we all know by now, there is alot of work still to come. I have just done my first race weekend in nearly a year on a bike I had never riden and at a circuit I had only ever walked round,(Oulton park is now level pagging with Cadwell in my race track league)however the innitial signs of the way the bike works are very good to say the least, power wise it kept with the much bigger mono's on track, handling wise all worked well but it does need a proper suspension setup, reliability seems to be good. Over the next few months I will be getting base settings for the suspension sorted and hopefully create an easy to use folder of technical info to aid with setup for the various tracks that I will be racing at. Other than this I am hopeing that just routine maintenance and tlc is all that is needed to keep the bike on track, fingers crossed as usual.




















A big thanks to Dave bennett (number 54) for the rear sprocket, thanks to Mat Newall for being my pit crew for the weekend and again thanks to Mark at DBR Race Engineering for the parts that made it all come together.

Keep watching this blog as racing is now first and foremost and I will be putting updates of my progress on here soon.

Engine, WORK!

Nearly there now, I left myself the most daunting task of building the engine till last but luckily it was not as bad a job as I was expecting. It all came apart a bit too easy really as when all was laying on the bench I thought "What have I done,I will never get this done in time" but as the following pictures show not only have I put it back together but I have managed to get some goodies inside too, I must say a big cheers to a local company called Holeshot Engineering near colchester, this guy knows all there is to know about bike engines and luckily pointed out a couple of previous mistakes made within my engine that has saved me time and effort in the future. Right, today is Saturday I will be putting engine in tomorrow morning and then do shims and run in on monday so as usual, staying true to the supermono way, the build will use all available time right upto the race. Watch this space as I will try to update with the final pictures from the build before I leave for the race on Thursday.