MY BIKE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP

Just to let you all know, my bike won the Moto 450 championship 2009, without any mechanical issues all season with the new owner aboard, Darren Smith.
Beating factory type machines from HM racing and many more.

Sorry to all, contact details update

Sorry to all who have asked questions and had no reply, I have changed contact details and have forgotten to update here.

If you would like to contact me regarding this build please email to ashzx7@googlemail.com

This will come directly to my phone so I should not miss it.

Thanks

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.

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.